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
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
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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
Newspapers at the Breakfast Table
With the gathering helpless compulsive rage
16 February 2018, 18:00 PM
LOVE HAS NO STORY TO TELL
One evening, while standing on the veranda of their 6th floor apartment, Sonia fell—with a big thud—in love. The thud was so loud
9 February 2018, 18:10 PM
Rabindranath Tagore's Spring Songs
Since whether you keep me in mind or not isn't in my mind at all,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
All about Love
“So, Monsieur! What are you going to sing for me today? Neele neele ambar, perhaps?” she asked flaunting her azure saree. For once,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Whirlpool of Our Stories
And I come here to take your hand,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Caricature
Caricature boys
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
The Old City
Here are the steps leading down to the lake
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Companions
They sit on the veranda every afternoon; an old man and an old woman. The man is in his seventies with white hair thinning in the
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Crossing Borders
In one of my trips to the USA, I had a ticket on Royal Jordanian Airlines with a stopover at Amman. I halted there for three days, saw
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
The Three-Legged Cat
Ammu is crying in the next room. Incessantly. I can't stand it any longer. Why did she do it? I have no doubt that she did it even
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
When Kokeshi Sleeps
Go hush hush, go shh shh
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
I imagine the lives of others,
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Chronicle of a Death Least Foreseen
As I was just leafing through Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a feeble attempt to cope with the emptiness
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Musings on a Poet, a City and a Football Team
Alone upon the housetops, to the North
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
From an untitled,unfinished, unpublished 1971 story
I knew it was Tipu, without even looking at the blanket-wrapped body they were carrying on their shoulders. I knew it was Tipu, because as always, he had filled up every space with his presence. He was my only child, and I often
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Syed Manzoorul Islam: “A Veritable Man of Letters”
Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam – or SMI sir, as he is popularly known to us, his current and former students – is one of the most dynamic people I know. I first met him about twenty-five years ago in an undergraduate classroom where he
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Why I started writing in English
I am Bengali. I am a writer.
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Unknowable
how do you explain that love
is a monstrous shape-shifting beast
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Grief Tourist
Stepping into unknown spaces,
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Bewitching Heidelberg
Much like the famous German song “Ichhabmein Herz in Heidelberg verloren” by Fred Raymond, which later became the theme song of
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM