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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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The Three-Legged Cat

Ammu is crying in the next room. Incessantly. I can't stand it any longer. Why did she do it? I have no doubt that she did it even
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
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An Impression of Some Turbulent Days

First published in 1973, Amy Geraldine Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University: 1947-1951, is not just another memoir. The current
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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An Afternoon at Katabon Pet Shop

It took more than an hour for Rupa to reach her destination. After paying the fare she started walking past the pet shops in Katabon.
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Craft of Recreating Memory and Forgetfulness

That Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year is significant for various reasons. The declaration of Bob
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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Farah Ghuznavi's Fragments of Riversong: Ballads for Our Time

Long ago, I read somewhere that writing short stories is more difficult than writing a novel. While writing about Fragments of
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
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From Niketan to Mohakhali: A Rickshaw Odyssey

For the three years that I lived in Niketan, Gulshan, I commuted to my workplace in Mohakhali by rickshaw. Each day was an adventure then
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Thinking Beyond Boundaries: An Interview with Susie Tharu

Susie Tharu and K. Lalita are well-known in India and beyond for their path breaking publication Women Writing in
23 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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