TahmidRahman
তাহমিদ রহমান
Stories that stay with you long after the last page.
A quiet observer of everyday sorrows and small joys, Tahmid writes fiction that lingers between memory and longing. His work explores family, belonging, and the unspoken bonds that hold lives together.
Tahmid Rahman
ধার করা আলো
The Light We Borrow
The new novelনতুন উপন্যাস
The Light We Borrow
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House India
- Year
- 2025
- Bengali title
- ধার করা আলো
A tender novel about three generations of women in a small riverside town, learning to forgive the past and choose the future. Set against the changing seasons of Bangladesh, it asks what it means to return home after a long absence.
In conversationআলাপে
On television, at festivals and on podcasts: talking about the books, the people in them, and the slow work of writing.
- Why fiction still mattersDhaka Lit Fest · Facebook · 8 February 2026
- A conversation with Tahmid RahmanBooks & Boba · YouTube · 19 November 2025
The Bookworm Podcast · YouTube · 12 March 2026
On writing about home without going back
From the deskলেখার টেবিল থেকে
All journal entries- Read
The art of the quiet opening
First sentences do not need to shout. Sometimes the most enduring invitation is a whisper that makes the reader lean in closer.
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What I re-read every monsoon
There are books that belong to certain weathers. When the sky turns grey, I reach for the same worn paperback and find new annotations waiting.
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Notes from a book tour
Ten cities, a hundred conversations, and the realization that readers always bring their own stories into the room.
Letters, now and thenমাঝে মাঝে চিঠি
New writing, book news and upcoming appearances, sent a few times a year. Never more often than there is something worth saying.