Waziha Aziz

What matters when there's a Motherland to defend? 

Reverse brain drain, a highly idealised concept, has been making waves on social media recently.

I know of my feeble frame of its graying at the edges.

Throughout the days of fear, uncertainty and lack of security during the revolution, the students of Chattogram remained united and steadfast while after the revolution, they took it upon themselves to help out the community. The change, brought forward by the students, can now be felt throughout the city.

My father speaks in a dismantled language that goes up in  smoke. 

There are no lamplights in this end of the neighbourhood. Only tall trees standing upright on either side of the road, their leaves drooping down in lament for a long-forgotten motion.

From every direction strong torrents meet Collide, counter, and begrudgingly recede.

Welcome, weary traveler! To my humble abode. Come, come. I'll show you