POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
14 May 2024, 17:26 PM
POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
POETRY / Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
POETRY / They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Where to?
Some weird things happen sometimes. It was just midday when his mother was done with her cooking. She got up from sitting position with her two hands on her knees and went to sit in the yard to relieve rheumatism in the sunlight. On her way, she called out to her second daughter, “Mitu, serve Milu his lunch. I’ll rest awhile.”
20 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Memories at War
I often consider war as a quasi-synonym for memory. After all, memory is nothing but our present in constant war with our glorified, vilified, expressed, suppressed, erased, and fragmented selves floating in past space and time.
20 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Short-Lived
Unloved and unnoticed
13 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: Food for Thought
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is widely read as a classic feminist novel. Published in 1953, Villette, however, still resides in a shadowy region.
13 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu, the 1947 Partition and Healing its Wounds
In the intellectual evolution of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 played a decisive role.
13 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Late Night Love Note to Self
Things are dark and bleak?
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Separation: A Soliloquy
Doesn’t anyone get that my soul cringes for a call?
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
The Phone Call
Aum impatiently held on to his phone, hearing it ring without being answered. He hated having to start the day without hearing her voice. Then again, he also hated going to bed without talking to her. It was going to be a bad day.
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
Psychedelic noises – a cacophony so harmonious
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
What Makes Good Writing Good?
To answer this question, let me hazard an analogy -- good writing is much like good food. Good writing tickles our senses the way good food does.
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
RUN
The ruby red kite fluttered above head, contrasted against the aquamarine sky, and it all was picture perfect for a split second, so perfect that it was a spoiler to the fact that something horrible was about to follow, like it did almost always.
28 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Arun Kumar Biswas: The Creator of the Detective Alokesh Roy
Just imagine, a detective character like Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Satyajit Ray’s Prodosh C. Mitra alias Feluda appears in the Bangladesh literary arena.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
A Great Departure
They carried the dead body from the front yard inside the house and slowly laid him down on the floor.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Verses for My Valentine
Some stars fell...
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Where’s Home?
A city made out of dust
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Malta: Room to Roam
Different scenario unfolds at every turn of a corner. Grand in a domestic dimension is the historic house museum - the Palazzo Falson - apparently the second oldest building still standing in the walled city of Mdina.
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Keats and the Elgin Marbles—Message from Parthenon
The classic collection of marble sculptures from Parthenon at the British Museum, commonly known as the Elgin Marbles, has been a vexed source of doubt, appreciation, enthusiasm, disapproval, and envy ever since they were brought to England during 1802-1812.
14 February 2020, 18:00 PM
The Jungle’s Call
I say “No” to the jungle’s call.
7 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Malta: Room to Roam (Part I)
“Room to roam” remains my indelible imprint of this idyllic historical island. A less trodden route.
7 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Old Friendship
Old friendship like cold tea
waits at your side
7 February 2020, 18:00 PM