POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
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THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
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Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
14 May 2024, 17:26 PM
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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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Poetry
There is sorrow—death too—separation's pangs scald as well—
10 August 2018, 18:00 PM
The Dead
The grove of Srish Poramanik was renowned for nuts. It was right by the roadside and full of ancient trees. It was dark like the night even during day time.
10 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Death, Grief, and Mourning: Some Chaotic Thoughts
We always talk about life. And then when people die, we talk about their deaths in terms of life—a life they will live for eternity in all
10 August 2018, 18:00 PM
A Dead Tongue
My tongue is standing by the road
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM
From the Pens of a Daily Commuter
The scene must have caught attention of those people who tend to come and go through the Farmgate area. How old may that
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM
The Monster
Lina slumped into the chair as Chameli left her room. She did not know how to tell her mother that she did not like to visit Reba
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
“How do I make you understand,
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Literature by women—for women or for all?
In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath writes about a young woman, Esther Greenwood, experiencing the publishing industry on a summer internship, as well as life in New York City, for the first time.
2 August 2018, 18:00 PM
The Other Half
The inkwell is trembling, There is the smooth rise and fall of memories, The hesitant fingers wrap the quill, The words come alive on paper, Is the scheme of life completeness of whole?
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Other Half
The inkwell is trembling
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A Daughter of India vs. a Son of England
“Would not the immolation of a daughter of India and a son of England awaken India to its continued state of subjugation and England to the iniquities of its proceedings?” - Bina Das (1932).
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
From Fantasia with Love
Before I begin fan-girling over my Fairy Godfather, to quench the curious bibliophiles (like yours truly), the book I had been carrying around that day was Cornelia Funke's The Griffin's Feather!
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Fierce, Friendly Fire
Usually, newspaper pages are dedicated to venerable people who have passed away or won an award. The occasion for today's issue is neither.
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Days of Our Likes
Lightning strikes, Thunder roars
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Our Story
Here, we stand in silence;
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
The Death of a Reader
It was a long time ago.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Aches and Auras
Shaji woke up with a pounding headache. The pain started in her sleep, so she thought she was only dreaming it. In her dream, she
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM
'Great Expectations' of literary food
From cartoons to books to movies, there is one recurring theme that catches the eye and engages all sensory experiences, and true to Proust's belief, it is the pure, unadulterated joy of a good meal.
19 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Three Poems
In the silence of the heart
13 July 2018, 18:00 PM
A View from the Ladies Common Room, Dacca University
DU. How those letters conjure up a sense of awe and bittersweet memory. Always in the vanguard of political, progressive
13 July 2018, 18:00 PM