POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Culture
POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Culture
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
14 May 2024, 17:26 PM
Culture
POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Culture
FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
Culture
POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Culture
POETRY / Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Culture
ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Culture
POETRY / They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Culture
The Philosopher & the Poet
These stories were told to John Drew by the Hungarian poets Ádám Nádasdy, translator of Shakespeare and Dante, and Győző Ferencz, Keeper of the Radnóti Archive.
1 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Literature's #MeToo
The committee that decides the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature every year is in shambles. The Swedish Academy, rocked by a sexual harassment scandal against an individual close to the committee,
31 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Proloyullash
Ring out your notes of triumph!
Ring out your notes of triumph!
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Temples and Mosques
“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Kazi Nazrul Islam: Some Questions and Concerns
In his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections, and accents of resistance and even revolution.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Daybreak
A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
You taught me language, and my profit on't
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
When I Met Pip
When I met Pip, he was hanging upside down. It was not by choice though; someone held him by his feet against his will and made
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Professor Fakrul Alam: Literature, Life and Translation
He is surely one of the most loved and respected professors in Bangladesh. Even though he was mostly anchored at the Department of
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
O Herald of the New (Hey nutan)
Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again.
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh
The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on—
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore, Gitanjali and the Nobel
It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali or Song
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Mother
None can fathom
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Dressed Like a Daydream
The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib Ki Dilli (Part II)
Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
You, who are
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
The Endless I
Within the givens of life
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
OF WEDDING GIFTS
After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
My Life with Shakespeare
When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib ki Dilli (Part I)
I should have been listening to one of the scores of imaginative events on the poetry, life and times of the pre-eminent poet of the
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM