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
Recitation: An Eminent Form of Art
Getting up on the stage, standing before the microphone and harmonizing some words with melody don’t define recitation.
4 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Searching for One’s Spirit Animal
Many of us have often taken similar tests online. The native Americans believe that from birth to death, there is this animal that guides one through thick and thin. But seriously, do we ever really consider what animal guides us through our lifetime? Are we comfortable
27 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Educating Lak-shmi, My Maid
When I got married and came to live in my husband’s home in Salt Lake, I found a very efficient maid called Lakshmi already employed there. Unlike other helping hands she stayed for a long period of time in our house and would volunteer to do extra household chores
27 September 2019, 18:00 PM
This Body of Mine
This body of mine!
20 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The Hridaya Sutra
A Quest
(You can) Take a break on the way to Kailash,
20 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Freedom
On our way to Dhahran from Austin, we plan to stop at Pennsylvania, New York and London. I have never been to New York and it would be a shame to leave America without visiting the city. Nishat has been to New York on a previous occasion and this time he wants to spend time with Dipa, her childhood friend.
20 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Silence
The phone kept ringing and Rehana fished inside her bag and muttered angry words under her breath for not being able to locate it. Finally, she got hold of it. It was Sultana, her eldest sister.
20 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Cinematic in scope, characters pulse with life: Dust Under Her Feet
Bangladeshi writing in English has seen an encouraging surge over the last couple of years. In the arena of South Asian literature,
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Not Aliens but Neighbours
Pass Hollywood over.
It’s not the aliens
but our neighbours,
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The Deer
We lived in Pirojpur then. Barisal is the land of rivers and nullahs, and Pirojpur is no exception. Unless you have been to this Southern region of the country, you cannot claim to have really seen the country. We were not used to seeing such multitudes of rivers and
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
In the Turmeric Fields: The World of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Young Durga of Pother Panchali chanted the rhymes as she wandered amidst the wildernesses of Nischindipur. No, she did not make up the lyrics; they were taught to her by her elderly aunt Indir Thakrun. I myself was very young when I first came across the tale of
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The Swains and the Sea
The Swains and the Sea
What is a sea to a fisherman’s eye?
A giving friend? A savior?
Or a killer in disguise?
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
THE MUSE
Each writer born must have a muse,
Or so I’m told, for if they do,
And if they should, do they know how
To let it in or haven’t found
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Abul Mansur Ahmed’s Ayna: A World of Satire in the Light of Art
Ayna, a collection of seven short stories by Abul Mansur Ahmed was published in 1935. Written through the span of 1922- 1929, these pieces were published in Saugat edited by Muhammad Nasiruddin. The stories were satiric in structure, reflective in observation,
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Adieu, Perpetual Migrant!
The virtuoso with the pen Rizia Rahman has ended her terrestrial sojourn on 16th August, just a few months shy of entering her octogenarian phase. A prolific writer treading most of the domains of creative writing, she has left an indelible personal mark on our literary landscape.
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part II)
SH: In 2011 you made a mega-documentary on 1971. What research on governmental policy documents went into the use of firearms by the Muktijoddhas as shown in your film, or as generally shown in films on the Liberation War?
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
I was led to delusion,
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
When She Misses Him (2009)
A sudden stillness!
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Searching for the Loved One: From the pen of a bereaved father
It was on August 25, 2018, an evening just after the Kurbani Eid holidays, when Mr. Kamran, 66, a returnee from Dubai, went to Banani graveyard, Dhaka to visit his mother’s and father’s graves. After saying prayers he asked the caretaker of the graveyard “Do you have any empty grave?”
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part 1)
Tanvir Mokammel hails from Khulna, which is also the workplace of Prof. Sabiha Huq. This past February, when he was in Khulna for the launching of his partition novel Kirtinasha, the English Department of Khulna University became the privileged venue for a
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM