For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to ...

In February this year the authorities in Bangladesh took Shamsuzzoha Manik, a 73-year-old publisher, into custody for publishing a book titled “Islam Bitorko” (“Debate on Islam”). His arrest and the ...

Inshallah Bangladesh', an explosive book authored by senior Indian journalists Deep Halder and Jaideep Mazumdar, and ...

Bangladesh police have attempted to ban "blasphemous books" from the country's largest book fair angering writers, publishers and church officials, who see it as restricting freedom of expression and ...

The International Publishers Association said that book fairs should be a place of intellectual curiosity and the opportunity to exchange ideas. This statement was originally published on ...

The Bangla Academy has announced that the “Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2026” will begin on 20 February and continue till 15 March.

Bangladeshi high schooler Laiba is being educated for the future, but what she learns has been determined by the latest chapter in her country’s battle over its past. Last year, a student-led ...

Successive governments in Bangladesh have allowed harsh, discriminatory personal laws to persist. After a year of interviews, Aruna Kashyap finds women trapped in abusive marriages or propelled into ...

Kolkata: Sustained social turbulence in Bangladesh seems to have adversely impacted the publishing industry in Kolkata with sales of books of Bengali authors on both sides of the border and count of ...

A mob attacked a book stall at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka, vandalising works by Taslima Nasreen. The interim government condemned the violence. A mob attacked and vandalised a book stall at ...

Sitara S. (she and the other women requested anonymity) is a Muslim woman living in Bangladesh. She gave her husband her earnings so he could get a driver's license, earn a better income and support ...