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"In one story, Chobi watches his human grow lonelier by the day, unable to help her beyond being present. He muses, "She...
25/07/2025

"In one story, Chobi watches his human grow lonelier by the day, unable to help her beyond being present. He muses, "She looked tired. So, I rubbed against her leg." That line carries the entire book's philosophy: that the act of staying, of simply being, is often more powerful than trying to fix," writes Naziba Basher.

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25/07/2025

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Tomorrow is the final day to send in your submissions!One year since the uprising. One year of reckoning.We’re calling o...
24/07/2025

Tomorrow is the final day to send in your submissions!

One year since the uprising. One year of reckoning.
We’re calling on the voices that rose during the July uprising—especially university students—to share their stories of pain, protest, and possibility.
Submit your poetry, fiction, or essays and be part of a collective remembrance.
Send your work to: [email protected]
Selected pieces will be published online or in print.

"Standing by the pond, waiting for her husband, was an old habit of Fulbanu's. Just as people lean forward to look for a...
23/07/2025

"Standing by the pond, waiting for her husband, was an old habit of Fulbanu's. Just as people lean forward to look for a train, knowing it will arrive on time, Fulbanu would gaze down the road, waiting," writes Abdullah Zahid.

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and for every gravea firefly burnsand for every graveDhaka never learns— Adnan M S FakirRead more at the link in the com...
22/07/2025

and for every grave
a firefly burns
and for every grave
Dhaka never learns

— Adnan M S Fakir

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Our hearts are broken.James Baldwin writes, "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe;...
22/07/2025

Our hearts are broken.

James Baldwin writes, "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.

Or, I am saying, in other words, that we, the elders, are the only models children have. What we see in the children is what they have seen in us—or, more accurately, what they see in us."

Photo: Milestone student protest / The Daily Star

"For readers, The Last Bench also serves as a mirror into a shared, fragmented past. Biswas's memories of Magura are lus...
20/07/2025

"For readers, The Last Bench also serves as a mirror into a shared, fragmented past. Biswas's memories of Magura are lush, intimate, filled with ancestral echoes. They remind us that the wounds of Partition are still tender. His return to that lost land is not nostalgic but aching. It asks: What do we carry when we lose home? What parts of us remain rooted even after the soil beneath our feet has changed?"- writes Namrata.

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All I knew was that even in his final days,even in the heavy stillness of dying,her silence spoke louderthan forgiveness...
20/07/2025

All I knew was that even in his final days,
even in the heavy stillness of dying,
her silence spoke louder
than forgiveness ever could.
No one forced her.
No one urged.
The silence between them stood untouched,
a monument of decades.
- Nishat Anjum.

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"The novel opens with 18-year-old Louisa, a lonely, angry girl drifting through the world after a difficult childhood in...
19/07/2025

"The novel opens with 18-year-old Louisa, a lonely, angry girl drifting through the world after a difficult childhood in foster care. She's an artist—in a way. She understands beauty and more importantly, she understands longing. All she's ever known of the sea is a small, worn-out postcard. It carries an image of a painting called "The One of the Sea", and she has kept it for years, not knowing why. She has never seen the sea in real life. But this painting, this imagined sea, has been her whole ocean," writes Mahmuda Emdad.

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Catch today's issue of in print or read online at the link in the comments below!
19/07/2025

Catch today's issue of in print or read online at the link in the comments below!

"In this book, it brings the two thinkers and their ideas into conversation. The result is a stunning meditation on some...
18/07/2025

"In this book, it brings the two thinkers and their ideas into conversation. The result is a stunning meditation on some of the concepts that haunt our present moment—humanity and moralism, Zionism today, democracy and imperialism and perhaps most significantly, the question that lies at the very heart of the human condition: what does it mean to be free?" writes Nazia Manzoor.

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"East West University (EWU) hosted the 7th Nahreen Khan Memorial Lecture on 16 July, 2025 at the university's Manjur Ela...
17/07/2025

"East West University (EWU) hosted the 7th Nahreen Khan Memorial Lecture on 16 July, 2025 at the university's Manjur Elahi Auditorium. This year's keynote address was delivered by Dr Niaz Zaman, renowned educationist, 2025 Ekushey Padak recipient, and retired professor of English at Dhaka University. Her lecture, titled "Literary Translation and Translators: Bangladesh and Beyond", explored the evolving landscape of literary translation and its growing relevance both in Bangladesh and globally."
[Star Books Report]

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