Elegy on Andrew Eagle
Tribute to Andrew Eagle, a gifted writer, cherished friend, and storyteller.
29 December 2024, 06:00 AM
Monsoon osmosis
I inhale the luxurious scent / of squelched earth / smoking under the sodden leaves
5 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Pandemic Nocturne 1: December Dirge
Ask me not of Grief.
For I have been burnt by its friendly fire
with blood and bits of oozing mortal flesh
spun flaky and ashen by its biting cold breath.
1 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Memory
Memory is a winding range
Of coniferous mountain pine
Catching the fiery light
23 June 2023, 18:00 PM
CONTINENTAL DRIFTER: SOLO TRAVELLER
Today, sitting on my balcony in Dhaka, with my face to the south looking down at the green neighbourhood park, I look back on my
27 June 2019, 18:00 PM
MISTY SWEETNESS
The little girl in the yellow summer frock looks up at the floating fluffy clouds. Wide-eyed, head tilted back, smiling at the gliding, feathery edges of the dense mass.
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
A grain of salt
Unbearable sticky sweaty subtropical hotness of August. Disgruntled and disgusted at the shocking turn of events following the popular “Quota” and “Safe Roads” movements.
6 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Commemoration: Reading memorials as cultural texts
LITERATURE on commemoration has rapidly grown in the past twenty years. Scholars from a variety of disciplines, for example, from archeology, architecture, history, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, geography – and the more inclusive field under the rubric of Cultural Studies – are mapping the significance and role of “memory “. Commemoration is defined as a “call to remembrance“.
13 December 2015, 18:00 PM
For a healthy body politic!
Look into your hearts, and hold fast to your strengths. Hunt down the demons, and rid our land of sickness and filth. Stand tall and be counted. Practice what you preach.
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM
An educator's appraisal
As a public servant working in a public university, I take umbrage at the sharp disdain and negativity displayed by a faculty member of
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM