Literature

POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you

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

FICTION / The loss of essentiality

15 March 2024, 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

One late afternoon, dragging his injured leg Kamal finally stood in front of a particular door of a shanti. For some strange reason, he could not enter the house as he used to even five months ago. He called out in a trembling voice, “Nuru! Where are you, my son? I’m home.”

30 August 2019, 18:00 PM

On loving childhood reads as an adult

I have been recovering from a very long and arduous block in my reading life, a block that could not be broken by the fattest or

29 August 2019, 18:00 PM

The Beggar

Though I called out to the shopkeeper a couple of times, he didn’t heed me. He was too busy rearranging the products on the rack. As I was waiting for him to respond, a middle-aged beggar woman turned up on my left and begged for money from me. At first, I

23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

The Fifteenth of August

The crimson hue is still in the morning sky.

23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Why Is Writing So Difficult to Accomplish?

Writing is a struggle for everyone. If it seems easy, a writer is not doing it right. Because writing is mired in myths and misunderstanding, most writers – aspiring writers, in particular – consider the essential difficulty in writing as a pathology. They feel

23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Ghoulish Sentiments

Slumped with our luggage we got off the train looking apprehensively at the quaint sight before us. Saplings and balding grasslands carpeted serenely with occasional trees of variety here and there. The scenery struck me with great unfamiliarity in contrast to the city

23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Dsc Prize for South Asian Literature, 2019

Instituted by Surina and Manhad Narula in 2010, the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is one of the most prestigious international literary awards specifically focused on South Asian writing. It is a unique and coveted prize and is open to authors of any

23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

The Story of the 21st

We could have never imagined that we would get Topu back. And yet he has returned and is amidst us. It is mind-boggling – the person whom we had seen for the last time at the High Court intersection,

10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

The Tree

There the tree tom-tomed its existential glory on the bank of the small river at a distance from the village.

10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Poems of Jibanananda Das

Had I but an eternal life (“Ananta Jibon Jodi Pai Ami”)

10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Fragrance

Just as Azhar Kha was about to leave the room putting his shirt on, Lily made an entrance, “Baba, you promised!”

10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Daughters of the sun

Rehana takes hesitant steps towards her house. Her Niqab renders the landscape a transparent shade of black smoke.

10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Memoir of a Serpent Woman

I am Ranire, the serpent woman who lives in the rubbles of Al-Hammar Palace. Yes, you heard right—the accursed and legendary half woman and half snake that wanders in the desert land of Ukh-Tarar.

10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Life Theft Auto: Vice City

“CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER”—the instruction pops up on the brand new 32-inch curved monitor’s screen. “Hmm… Which one? Which one should I select?” Genghis Khan murmurs.

10 August 2019, 18:00 PM