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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BIDDING ADIEU TO RADA
The terrible realization was setting in almost all, if not all of us. The dream days of fun and work in equal measure at RADA were
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Jibanananda Das: Baitarani
I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore Songs
With him, “no” will never do.
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Prodigy
The smell of spicy food was making Sam hungry. After a long wait at the restaurant, the waiter came with the food. He had a mask
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
A Brief History of Pahela Baishakh
Most of us know that the celebrations of Pahela Baishakh began in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. However, we have mostly
13 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Alpanas: “Dreams under your feet”
If you ask me, it is not unlikely that alpana and kalpana should sound almost similar, since without kalpana, or creative ingenuity, it is
13 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Baishakhi Spirit, which art Moving Everywhere
My phone is bombarded with SMS alerts notifying me of various deals available for Baishakh: the discounts that are offered in various
13 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
Some days I come knocking at your door
6 April 2018, 18:00 PM
In Search of a Hero
“If I were a hero …” Arif stopped suddenly.
6 April 2018, 18:00 PM
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: KUTCH
Imagine Bengal like this: all the rivers have dried up. Periodically, there are earthquakes. For mile after mile there is only desert scrub:
6 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
It doesn't want a handful of puffed rice
30 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Pity
From behind a counter inside Tasty, her brother Anik's bakery shop, Hridi watches an old Westerner repeatedly tug on the glass door
30 March 2018, 18:00 PM
EXAMINATION WOES
With the examination season on, people feel pity for the stressed students burning the midnight oil as well as for their parents who, in
30 March 2018, 18:00 PM
I Can Choose to Go, But Why Should I?
Perhaps, it is better to turn around.
30 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Snippets
Her: Seen yesterday's sunset?
30 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Skull among Bricks− a Grey Frame
Right now, I am all blue. I was supposed to have my feet on the ground, and study for my upcoming exam–which is in two days.
23 March 2018, 18:00 PM
The Death of Sorrow
Azgar Ali was not worried when the war broke out. Theirs was a quaint little village hiding by the slopes near the Garo Hills. It took
23 March 2018, 18:00 PM
MY USELESS WEAPON
As Bird flocks take wing at the rattle of sten guns
23 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Ferdousi Priyabhashini: “A Lifelong Impression of Eternal Struggle”
The indescribable grief and agony the aftermath of 1971 had set off in the eventful life of Ferdousi Priyabhashini can be perceived
23 March 2018, 18:00 PM
The Days of War
On March 1 at 1.00 pm when Yahya Khan declared on the radio that he was suspending the National Assembly session because of the
23 March 2018, 18:00 PM