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POETRY / Our Bangla
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THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Culture
Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
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POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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The Bench
The bench was deceivingly inconspicuous with its chipped paint and creaky wood. It practically promised that if I sat on it, I could enjoy a feisty lunch in a brown paper bag and watch the pigeons fight over crumbs without any life altering events. Yet sometimes the unexpected happens in the most ordinary of places.
4 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Those Pesky Palesimians
O Son of Ben-Zion, why have you not
4 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Karl Marx on India: An Assessment (Part II)
Marx correlates the decrease of Indian textile exports with the monopoly exerted by British muslins to India and the decimation of the population of Dhaka. To quote what he says about the impact of colonization on our city and the outcome of the fatal embrace of British colonial policy in our part of India:
4 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Spoilers Alert: Meghnadhbadh Rahasya Revealed
Anik Dutta's 2017 movie Meghnadhbadh Rohoshya is a clever evocation of naxalgia. Fifty years after the Naxalbari movement, the
28 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Karl Marx on India: An Assessment (Part I)
In a Delhi bookshop this October, I came across Karl Marx on India. Edited by Iqbal Husain, former Professor of History at Aligarh
28 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
In Manzur Elahi's garden
28 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Editor's Note
Perhaps it is a little late, but here it is. A two-day international conference on Karl Marx's birthday titled “Language, Literature, Culture
28 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Living Amidst the Catastrophes of “the Living Contradiction”
“By its nature,” Marx writes in the climactic passage of a magnificent but very dense section of the Grundrisse, capital “posits a barrier
28 December 2018, 18:00 PM
When the Lights Went Out
I feel like unmasking myself, Because no one will see.
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The Blue Sparrow
The blue sparrow is about to fly away; it flaps its wings. I stare deep into its eyes in a rush and whispered, “Take me with you, please.”It accepts my request. Under its wings the blue sparrow takes me in, my sin, my soul and all of my unfulfilled aspirations.
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
A Walk around the Home of Emily Brontë
Around 2014, while working on my dissertation on Emily Brontë, I suddenly realized that it was rather strange that I had never been to Yorkshire.
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Remembering Nehreen Khan: Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam's Memorial Lecture at EWU
It was on a beautiful afternoon on 4 December, 2018 in S. M. Nowsher Ali Lecture Gallery at East West University Campus, Aftabnagar, Dhaka that Professor Syed
21 December 2018, 18:00 PM
From The Daily Star Bookshelf
As 2018 wraps up, we decided to talk to some of our colleagues about the books that have accompanied them this past year. We started out trying to find recommendations hot off the press; but found out that it's been a year for older titles.
20 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Their Songs
I know a craven Mir Jafar
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
KHEYA'S WAR
The ant mound was intact until Kheya stepped on it. Pappu was trying to pick some ripe oranges from the big orange tree by the gate. While running toward him, Kheya stepped right on the mound and got attacked by a platoon of red ants.
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
From Ekattorer Chithi
Salaam. Hope you are well by the grace of Allah. Convey my respect and regards to others in the house. In this battle we are all here
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Telling (Hi)stories
My passport will tell you I am as old as the country itself. I am actually one year older than the country. That's what my mother told me, and that's how it was recorded in my early school documents.
14 December 2018, 18:00 PM
The 42nd Annual Book Sale of the Friends of the Library, Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Book Buy (Part II)
It was Leo Tolstoy whose Yasnaya Polyana residence and retreat located outside Moscow was classified by him as his 'inaccessible literary stronghold.
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Light Mist
She wished to become a light mist
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM
TWO POEMS
Butterflies flit, turn and flutter
7 December 2018, 18:00 PM