Fiction / The winter ballot
19 September 2026
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Fiction
“I’m sorry, but choosing anywhere near the capital will delay your citizenship process by at least five years,” said the woman at the counter of the immigration office. “The capital itself will cost you a lifetime.”
Poetry / Four poems on healing
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Sacred sorrows
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Essay / How Tumblr folk tales are rewriting digital dread into quiet sanctuaries
17 September 2026
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Essay
Essay / The menstruating body and the making of ‘womanhood’ in literature
17 September 2026
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Essay
Book Review: Fiction / Finding stillness in ‘Being Water’
17 September 2026
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Books & Literature
Essay / ‘The Odyssey’ and what we lose when myth belongs only to its heroes
15 September 2026
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Essay
News Report / BRAC Institute of Languages and The Daily Star redefine English Education for youth
13 September 2026
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News
Book review: Fiction / Finding home, identity, and art in ‘Parsa’s Pithas’
11 September 2026
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Reviews
Literary Curtains / Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
“Ladyland is not perfect,” remarks Sultana, one of the protagonists in the much awaited play, “Project Ladyland 2026”. Produced by HerStory Foundation in collaboration with the British Council and Women of the World Foundation, the play was greeted by a full house this weekend. Staged at the Bangladesh Mohila Samiti theatre, the performance made a splash on Friday, August 14.
Event Report / Kobitabela: a soulful afternoon
9 September 2026
Event Report / “Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
15 July 2026
A unique and heartwarming workshop, designed to celebrate the beautiful journey of parenthood through creative expression and quality time
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026
On June 19, 2026, the occasion was the 20th staging of “Love Letters”, A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, translated and adapted into Bangla by writer and translator Professor Abdus Selim. Directed by veteran theatre actor and director Tropa Majumdar and staged by Group Theatre at the Dr. Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium, the production brought together the acting power couple, Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdausi Majumdar. Their performances transformed what could have easily been a simple reading of letters into something deeply intimate and profoundly human.
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026
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The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026
Redefining aviation safety culture
Research on Aviation Safety: Safety is a Mindset by Air Commodore Munim Khan Majlish is a fresh look at the concept of aviation safety challenging standard ideas about safety.
18 December 2024
UPL marks its 49th anniversary with book fair celebration
The University Press Limited (UPL) celebrated its anniversary with readers, writers and well-wishers. The exchange of greetings was held from 4 PM to 8 PM at the UPL central office, located at Green Road in Farmgate area of Dhaka, on December 13 (Friday).
18 December 2024
‘Catfish and Avatars’: Discussions on cyber lives and cyber safety
The phrases “cyber safety” and “cyber lives” may seem vague and not very well understood among Bangladesh’s netizens.
18 December 2024
Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
I weave Hibiscuses in your hair and
Along with them I softly weave the strings of my I love you’s.
Your eyes are closed as you soak in my touch and
Your lips are pressed thin as if imprisoning yours.
13 December 2024
Our Bangla
My Bangla
Sings out every morning
One language
Many songs
13 December 2024
Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
For educators: My go-to text on 1971 is Jahanara Imam’s Ekattorer Dinguli. It’s a deeply personal and powerful memoir that I believe every student should engage with to truly feel the emotional and human cost of the war. The way she documents her experiences, especially the loss of her son, is heart-wrenching and offers a perspective that transcends history—it becomes deeply relatable and unforgettable.
13 December 2024
A tale of survival, dominance, and self-discovery in colonial Bengal
Obayed Haq’s Bangla novel, Arkathi, is almost a bildungsroman tale filled with adventure and self-reflection. In true bildungsroman fashion, where the protagonist progresses into adulthood with room for growth and change, a bulk of Haq’s novel talks about the spiritual journey that an orphan, Naren, takes through a forest in order to mature, and comes out on the other side to realise a community’s deep, hidden truth.
12 December 2024
Confronting cultural silence on IPV in Bangladeshi communities
Proverbs, short and profound, often sum up wisdom passed down through generations. Bangla, one of the world’s most spoken languages, is rich with such gems. One such saying in the language—”manush ki bolbe?”—is central to Intimacies of Violence, a debut book by Dr Nadine Shaanta Murshid, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.
12 December 2024
Remnants of a burning home
I fell asleep to the chatters of cicadas on a quiet summer night
6 December 2024
On invisibilised violence
In classic Bengali fiction, the kitchen is a central site for conflict and community bonding.
6 December 2024
How to make incendiary literature
Zines are a new name for an old thing. They are the revolutionary pamphlets of the 1930s, and the underground student manifestos of the ‘50-’60s. They are a distant relative of the tattered choti mags. There are many other examples from around the world of self-published, self-distributed, and often dangerous reading material.
4 December 2024
I love you; it’s ruining my life
Someone in a chat group somewhere called Sally Rooney the ‘Taylor Swift’ of the literary world, and now I cannot unsee it.
4 December 2024
Taiwan romance novelist Chiung Yao dies at 86
Chiung Yao was a prolific writer, publishing over 60 books in a career spanning more than five decades.
4 December 2024
Albert’s dream
A long stretch of time / passed in prison
29 November 2024
The vanishing Ramanujan
The night after the story got published, Jamal stormed to my home at around 11 PM, drenched in the rain. That was the first and only time Jamal raised his voice against me
29 November 2024
Storytelling, struggles, and reimagining identity
Patriarchy would have you believe that women are inherently complicated—creatures who must be defined, boxed in, or reduced to stereotypes.
27 November 2024
Of homes and the worlds: Women, violence, and the domestic space
November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence which goes until December 10, Human Rights Day.
27 November 2024
Something smells fishy
The large green pond of Dhanmondi Lake was probably the first source of natural water that I had witnessed. It sheltered a huge number of people who have lived,
22 November 2024
Of longings, of belongings
Women and the earth have to tolerate a lot.
–Kaajal (1965)
22 November 2024
At the birth of death
One sits silently. Her eyes blink sometimes. Sometimes her lips tremble a little, or they don’t tremble at all.
22 November 2024
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