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
Culture
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
Culture
Music, the Goddess of Passion
I confess: music for me is intimate. I don't know about genres and canons. Nor do I know the reasons that compel a composer to
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Inspirational, Imaginative, Unconventional-Razia Khan Amin
There is hardly anything anywhere in the net to indicate how good Razia Khan Amin (1936-2011) (aka Razia Khan, or Mrs. Amin to us
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Imagination's winter
When snow falls, people at a distance
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Specks of Dreams and Polarized Dusts
I fell asleep within my sleep and woke up to find myself in your dream, which is also mine.
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
From Enchanted Delta
Nadeem longed to join the crowds in the streets. When no one was around, he watched his own face in the mirror as he improvised a
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Stairway to Wonderland
Past giant mountains, which collide with the blue linings of the abyss,
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reincarnation
We were in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waiting for a table at a popular restaurant. There were only two benches and a chair arranged
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reminiscing Comilla
This evening, it's my nose or maybe I've been getting intimations of the sweet odor of burning incense!
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
O Mayor! My Mayor!
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
A Game of Light and Darkness
Charulata Akhter was an ordinary, braided, floral salwar kameez-wearing nineteen-year-old from the Shundarganj village of Rangpur.
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
EXQUISITE GASTRONOMY
After a long field trip, hunger gripped the mission members who could barely wait to eat, yearning for whatever they could find. The
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Full Circle
How innocently I met Islam! It was through a humble kind of “How do you do?” proffered to a handful of Rajasthan mosques; among
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Freedom,You Are
Freedom, you are
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
The Promise of 1971
His ears attuned to the husky whisper
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Burning in a Yearning Fire
Some day, I will make a film about a group of lepers. These lepers, who—living in their melting , rotting bodies, but still resistant—
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Memories of 1971
1971 has been my greatest passion for the last forty-six years. It has been my pair of glasses with which to look at people and things.
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Ben Okri: The writer, the artist
“The Magic Lamp” is a collection of 25 short stories by Okri inspired by 25 original paintings by Rosemary Clunie. Okri calls it his “first real unintentional intentional book”, after having been spontaneously inspired by one of Clunie's paintings. Spontaneous, however, may not be entirely accurate.
14 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Prayer and Lament
507 dead and 22,407 injured in political violence in Bangladesh in 2013
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM
THE ENGLISHING OF 'OMAR KHAYYÁM
Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM
The Goat from the Other Side of the River
“Doctor,” I chalk on the charcoal board. I ponder for several long seconds until I put two crosses on it with the kind of exertion that
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM