।। A.M. Fahad ।। Do you want my hands/ Will they be enough to keep you warm With a few thousand stars sneaking up on a night sky Mostly filled with bugs and insects among other insignificant... Read more
Sixteen people have been nominated for the Bangla Academy Literary Award-2023 for their outstanding contribution in different spheres of literature. Bangla Academy announced the names of the... Read more
Publishing house Oitijjhya has paid tribute to writer, educationist and women’s rights activist Begum Rokeya publishing a collection of her poems titled Begum Rokeyar Kabita. The book was pu... Read more
Nobel Literature Prize laureate Jon Fosse on Thursday said that ‘writing can save lives,’ as he reflected on the many suicides that featured in his writing. ‘If my writing also can help to s... Read more
Publishing house Oitijjhya paid tribute to novelist and short story writer Manik Bandopadhyay publishing a collection of his poems. The book titled Manik Bandopadhyay-er Kabita was published... Read more
Publishing house Oitijjhya is all set to publish the complete set of literary works of poet Farrukh Ahmad in nine volumes. The publishing house signed an agreement with the poet’s son Syed M... Read more
This ethnographic work takes the readers right into people’s everyday lives, lived in opportunities and in fear as the states practise their sovereignty through barbed wire fences and heavil... Read more
Writers, poets, critics and academics will deliberate on a wide range of issues at the ‘9th Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob’ (ABSU), the meet celebrating Bengali literary works in B... Read more
– A review of Bengal Hound ।। Ata E Rabby Abdullah ।। A moving and compelling book called “Bengal Hound” goes deeply into the agonising intricacies that existed before the... Read more
– Humayun Ahmed’s Literary Landscape of Realism and Surrealism ।। Syed Raiyan Amir ।। Humayun Ahmed, a prominent Bangladeshi author, playwright, and filmmaker, is renowned for hi... Read more
।। Nafisa Afreen Megha ।। The hush of dawn and the whispered breeze, /caresses nature’s resting face, Silent hues as the day awakens, it is the morning glow, rather soft and shy, whisp... Read more
।। Tasneem Hossain ।। Recollections of her childhood memories flash./ Her rendezvous with the flora and fauna of Sundarbans She stands in front of the canvas and stares. Recollections of her... Read more
Ekushey Padak-winning poet and freedom fighter Mohammad Rafiq passed away Sunday night. He was 80. He breathed his last on his way to Dhaka from Barishal around 10:00pm. As the poet fell sic... Read more
।। Shahnaz Ameer ।। The literary world never fell short of books, even in pandemic, but instead emerged with a thriving collection for the readers. Here are 10 of my favourite novels by Sout... Read more
The country’s first-ever book on 50 ghost stories written by noted litterateur and Kaler Kantho Editor-in-Chief Imdadul Haq Milan has won the readers’ heart. Ananda Publishers Private Limite... Read more
The 124th birth anniversary of national and rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being celebrated across the country through various programmes. President Mohammed Shahbuddin and Prime Minister S... Read more
Renowned litterateur and daily Kaler Kantho Editor-in-Chief Imdadul Haq Milan has reached global readers with a book comprising his 10 short stories translated into English. The book titled... Read more
BSS: A four-day ’32nd Bangla Book Fair’, under the initiative of Muktadhara Foundation, will begin from July 14 at Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC) in New York, USA. The slo... Read more
।। Ansar Ahmed Ullah ।। Soon after the independence of Bangladesh, four freedom fighters, Jamal Hasan, Anwar Ahmed, Mahmud Abdul Quayum and Syed Akhtar Ali, set out on a world cycle tour on... Read more
Amidst the joyous occasion of Eid greetings and smiles, I stood still in solitude–wearing my red, torn half pants, topless from the navel up ।। KM Arefin ।। The sound of azaan from the far e... Read more