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Sohana Manzoor

Sohana Manzoor is the Editor of the Star Literature page.

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FICTION / Home for rent

Mrs X's parents were not interested in spending money on their daughter's room because they would have to give her new furniture when she got married
11 April 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A wound in our experience

“An exceptional novel that makes gender disappear to build unconventional love and friendship”
3 July 2024, 18:00 PM
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Fiction / The Writer

The lad appeared to be very humble and slowly took a seat. But I noticed that he did not take his eyes off my face even once. He kept on staring at me through his glasses.
15 September 2023, 18:00 PM
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Sari - The changing tale of draping

In the current fashion world, the sari, a traditional female garment of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka is all the rage.
15 February 2023, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Ghosts in Bangla literature and culture

“Bhoot”, the Bangla word for ghost, derives from the Sanskrit word Bhūta, referring to living beings and the past. Later, it also came to mean ‘disembodied spirit.’ Ghost stories carry a special tradition in Bangla literature and the root lies in folklore and rural culture.
20 January 2023, 18:00 PM
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Abul Mansur Ahmad (1898- 1979)

A politician and journalist by profession, Abul Mansur Ahmad began his career as a National Congress worker in Bengal.
2 September 2022, 18:00 PM
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Commemorating the 225th Birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on 30 August / Disrupted Nature and Community in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is well-known to the literary audience and beyond as the tale of a brilliant and mad scientist who created a horrible monster that in the end brought destruction for its creator.
26 August 2022, 18:00 PM
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Remembering the Poet Shamsur Rahman -- from Susmita Islam’s Phirey Phirey Chai

Remembering Shamsur Rahman on his death anniversary
17 August 2022, 01:48 AM
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Home for rent

Mrs X's parents were not interested in spending money on their daughter's room because they would have to give her new furniture when she got married
11 April 2025, 18:00 PM
the-remains-of-the-body.jpg

A wound in our experience

“An exceptional novel that makes gender disappear to build unconventional love and friendship”
3 July 2024, 18:00 PM
bibhuti.png

The Writer

The lad appeared to be very humble and slowly took a seat. But I noticed that he did not take his eyes off my face even once. He kept on staring at me through his glasses.
15 September 2023, 18:00 PM
sari-1.jpg

Sari - The changing tale of draping

In the current fashion world, the sari, a traditional female garment of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka is all the rage.
15 February 2023, 18:00 PM
web_illustration_4_1.png

Ghosts in Bangla literature and culture

“Bhoot”, the Bangla word for ghost, derives from the Sanskrit word Bhūta, referring to living beings and the past. Later, it also came to mean ‘disembodied spirit.’ Ghost stories carry a special tradition in Bangla literature and the root lies in folklore and rural culture.
20 January 2023, 18:00 PM
abul-mansur-ahmad.jpg

Abul Mansur Ahmad (1898- 1979)

A politician and journalist by profession, Abul Mansur Ahmad began his career as a National Congress worker in Bengal.
2 September 2022, 18:00 PM
mary-shelley-1.jpg

Disrupted Nature and Community in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is well-known to the literary audience and beyond as the tale of a brilliant and mad scientist who created a horrible monster that in the end brought destruction for its creator.
26 August 2022, 18:00 PM
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Remembering the Poet Shamsur Rahman -- from Susmita Islam’s Phirey Phirey Chai

Remembering Shamsur Rahman on his death anniversary
17 August 2022, 01:48 AM
1947 Partition

The Great Divide that brought them together

While the Partition of 1947 is a chapter that historians are constantly bringing up, one question rarely explored is what does the Partition mean for the Millennials and Gen Zs? How much do our younger generations know of the significance of the Great Divide?
15 August 2022, 09:47 AM
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Shohorbanu

“Bhabi, do you remember Banu?” my paternal aunt Janu phupi asks Amma. We are in the middle of a grand celebration—I am getting married and today is my gaye-holud. My grandmother barks, “Don’t mention that ill-fated girl now. She tricked us all.”
5 August 2022, 18:00 PM
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Andrea Levy’s Small Island: Racial Conflict in Postwar Britain and a Commentary on Our World

A daughter of immigrant parents, Andrea Levy wrote mostly on the struggles of Jamaican immigrants in England. Critically acclaimed Small Island (2004) is one of her best-known books and it attempts to visualize the days before, during, and after the Second World War.
15 July 2022, 18:00 PM
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The Myth of the Strong Woman

Years ago, when I was about eight-years-old, I heard a teacher say that a woman’s lungs are stronger than a man’s.
20 June 2022, 18:00 PM
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Excerpts from Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Hena

I had to come to this dense forest yesterday. I have no clue why we had to fall back. This is the beauty of military life-- the order comes and you have to do it. You can never ask, “Why do I have to do it?”
27 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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From Rabindranath Tagore’s Chhinnapatra

Our boat was docked by a sandbank on the other side of Shelaidaha. It was a gigantic strip of sand where the contour of a river could be seen.
6 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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Parallel Realities, Peripheral Existences: Saikat Majumdar’s The Middle Finger

The intriguing image of a woman’s eye peering through a hole cut into the glossy book jacket suggests that there is more to Saikat Majumdar’s The Middle Finger than meets the eye.
22 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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A Conversation with Saikat Majumdar

DS. To some readers the title of your most recent novel The Middle Finger may sound controversial. But as I discovered while reading, it focuses on something very different. Why did you choose this title?
4 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Remembering Prof. Rafiqul Islam

He did not look at me once. His eyes were engrossed in deep thought; to me he seemed to be dipping in the deep waters of memory. Bent with age, he sat at his desk.
18 February 2022, 18:00 PM
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Romancing Wuthering Heights

In popular culture, if not in criticism, Wuthering Heights stands as the tale of love lost in betrayal and a grand reunion in the afterworld. The
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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Kolimoddi Dafadaar

The banks along the river Shitalakshya flooded on a regular basis. During the rainy season, most villages around the area turned into islands.
17 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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Silence, a Cross-dresser from Medieval Europe

 I came across Heldris de Cornuälle’s Silence in 2011, a hundred years after its discovery in 1911. Dated to the early
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM

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