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Sarah Anjum Bari

Sarah Anjum Bari is a writer and editor, pursuing an MFA in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa where she also teaches rhetoric and literary publishing.

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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Shards of clarity

Beginning to read Fine Gråbøl’s What Kingdom, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitkin, is like sitting in a silent room, alone, and a voice begins to speak as though from beside you.
16 January 2025, 18:00 PM
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Can our walls make space for our dissent?

The walls of Dhaka city represent the volume and chaos of thousands of people jostling for ever-shrinking space.
11 August 2024, 05:00 AM
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THE SHELF / 4 books I was grateful to read this year

It's true, I feel differently about books that I previously disliked or enjoyed reading and books that I want as a physical presence in my life
31 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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INTERVIEW / Outliers take centre-stage in Shah Tazrian Ashrafi’s debut collection

It’s hard not to recall our many conversations about literature as I try to summarise Shah Tazrian Ashrafi’s debut collection of short stories. They were always short discussions, opening and closing off in spurts, as happens over text. Exclamations over a new essay collection by Zadie Smith, or a new novel by Isabel Allende.
26 June 2024, 18:00 PM
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INTERVIEW / Rifat Munim on Bangladeshi fiction: ‘This is a diverse terrain you are going to tread on’

In the foreword, I wanted to capture how I, as a child, grew up listening to different stories: ghost stories, mythical stories from both Sanatana and Islamic religious scriptures, and fairy tales from 'Thakurmar Jhuli', compiled by Dakkhinaranjan Mitra Majumdar. It was a time when there were no boundaries for my imagination.
23 February 2024, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / The first semester is your shitty first draft

Like many veterans, I joined a creative writing MFA program because I wanted to evolve as a writer.
24 January 2024, 18:00 PM
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A glimpse of the Istanbul we don’t know

Here was a woman who was but a dot amidst the throngs of people who watched the Bosphorus Bridge being opened in October 1973, as fireworks erupted over a Turkey that now seamed Asia to Europe.
15 May 2023, 08:55 AM
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In conversation with South Asia’s preeminent literary agent, Kanishka Gupta

I always tell the authors to make subjective, qualitative decisions. So many of my authors say no to higher offers from publishing houses if they don’t feel comfortable with the publisher or editor.
4 May 2023, 09:13 AM
Inside a Bully's Mind

Inside a Bully's Mind

One day during school hours at an English medium school in Dhaka, 9th grader Rahul Chowdhury wished to play table tennis while some other students were already playing.
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
One Story that Lives On

One Story that Lives On

Every fandom, for each of its followers, is serious business. Having grown up with my nose buried into hijinks of the Wizarding World, Harry Potter is serious business for me.
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Stories for the Summer

Stories for the Summer

It's been an embarrassingly long time since I sat down to write something.
27 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Spoken word

Resonance of Spoken Word

As the symphony reaches its illuminating ZENITH AND WE WILL KNOW, AND WE WILL FEEL THAT THIS MOMENT IS OURS TO LIVE FOR
30 March 2016, 18:00 PM
RAINBOW CAT

EXPLAINING THE RAINBOW

Ever since an especially fascinating Science class in middle school, the pouring of rain followed by sunlight to this day makes me look...
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Fish Food

Annoying things friends studying abroad do

We all have friends who study abroad and when they return home during their study breaks, they make the following months amusing ...
9 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Old Book, New Cover

In a park filled with laughing families, running children and the happiest kind of sunshine...
10 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Flora

Sparks Will Fly

The dancers were all getting ready. The boys had already reached and were busy taking pictures with the group while popping a “fuchka” every few minutes.
3 February 2016, 18:00 PM
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Never too old for Disneyland - Paris

Holidays are a time of happiness. During winter at the end of year, when the warmth of family and friends take us back to childhood, it's also a time of magic. And magic, as everyone knows, is done best by Disney.
13 January 2016, 18:00 PM
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Colour Me Stress-Free

All of us adored colouring books as kids, until we grew out of them. But a recent trend in France has brought them back to the
16 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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POST GRAD OR MARRIAGE?

Last year of college brings with it a lot of changes. You are now an almost grown up, who sort of knows what s/he wants to do with...
9 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Books

What We Want from a Lit Fest

For the past few years, November has been engaging us in a spectrum of festivals highlighting pop culture, literature, classical, folk and jazz music.
25 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Me before You

Learning To Live and Laugh

When people we love meet their ends through chronic illnesses or sudden accidents, we find a way amid the misery to accept the circumstances – circumstances that were out of our hands.
28 October 2015, 18:00 PM
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Gifts for Grandparents

There are some items in all our homes that are both neglected and sacred.
5 August 2015, 18:00 PM
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Writing as Healing

Ernest Hemingway had said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” For millions around the world, writing – a hobby, a profession and an art form – really does feel like bleeding on paper. But of late, we've stopped to notice how all that bled ink has the power to do more than inform or entertain. It has the power to heal.
15 July 2015, 18:42 PM
Painting

Art: Where is it born?

Scenes that an artist dreams of, reads about or lives through are all things that make canvasses come alive. For many, music is a major source of inspiration, as is the case for Zoheb Mashiur.
8 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Suadade

Lost In Translation

Language remains the most beautiful of our creations.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Movies for Lit-Lovers

For every tiny thing each of us is passionate about, there exists a “movies” list.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM
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GPA and Happiness – Correlated?

Doing well in academics requires different circumstances for different people.
13 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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Ways in Which University Changes You

It's not all about academics.
8 April 2015, 18:00 PM

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