If a Missouri mystery with a floral flare sounds like something you’d enjoy, you’re in luck: This year’s Community Read will ...

Bring your best dish to the cook off or just taste the dishes and stay for trivia. Prizes will be awarded to cook off and ...

With every arrest and vigilante attack, Bangladesh’s culture of repression deepens. ‘You can’t paint, act, or write while looking over your shoulder,’ said an artist.

Imbued with the rich oral traditions of the Bangla language and its versatile literacy heritage, shouldn’t the Amar Ekushey Boimela also deserve to be honoured and receive the spotlight on UNESCO’s ...

Taslima Nasreen, Bangladeshi writer and activist, strongly criticised the interim government in Bangladesh and said the country is now occupied by the extremist ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’ group. She was ...

Imbued with the rich oral traditions of the Bangla language and its versatile literacy heritage, shouldn’t the Amar Ekushey Boimela also deserve to be honoured and receive the spotlight on UNESCO’s ...

The curtain fell on the month-long Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Friday with a large crowd at the fair on the last day.

The absence of many favourite authors and the Sisimpur act, along with the low number of books, contribute to a subdued ...

The fifth volume of legendary lyricist Gazi Mazharul Anwar’s songbook series, “Olpo Kothar Golpo Gaan”, was officially released on February 24 at the Ekushey Book Fair. Published by Bhashachitra, the ...

The number of new books on the War of Independence has dropped significantly at the ongoing month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 organised by the Bangla ...

Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee said: “We are saddened to read the reports from Bangladesh of an attack on a publisher’s stand at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair. Book ...

Typically, people who come to pay their respects at the Central Shaheed Minar on the morning of Feb 21, visit the Amar Ekushey Book Fair afterwards. But on Friday, the fair was nearly deserted.