Literature

POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you

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

FICTION / The loss of essentiality

15 March 2024, 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

Key holes

We hide our wet lace behind a trellis of plants, our voices honeyed from jaded soap operas.

22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

RADA LOOMS

Bret and I were marching resolutely towards our Holy Grail, waiting for us only a couple of hundred meters or so away, though still out

22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Gabo's Solitude

Love for stories, rather fairy tales, begins from childhood. The stories of childhood travel by flights of fancy. As we grow up though,

22 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Nature of the Linguistic Sign

Signifier: Alas, that I am only what I am not.

15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Rice

In the wooded marshland of Manbhoom, the mountain peaks stretched beyond the horizon. Spring was almost gone; palash trees in

15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Decision Pending

He was hell-bent on getting out of Purgatory. There was no good reason for him to be in this position but here he was. It really wasn't

15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Principle of Resonance

The Architect of designated Life

15 September 2017, 18:00 PM

What If?

He said she was his Achilles' heel long before she had read Homer. "What's an Achilles' heel?" She asked with the innocence of a

8 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Craig's List

The newly weds were still living with ramshackle old furniture and gadgets ~ different pieces collected over the years that my son had

8 September 2017, 18:00 PM

SIX SHARED SEASONS

Let us say you dream of a woman,

25 August 2017, 18:00 PM

In and Around Boston As an Actor-to-be

Almost in front of the entrance to, and egress from, the Goodge Street subway station on Tottenham Court Road stood a coin-

25 August 2017, 18:00 PM

Shamsur Rahman's “Song of Electra,” is a poem about a daughter lamenting her father's inopportune death. He is really none other than the father of our nation who was snatched from us one dark August night in 1975.

18 August 2017, 18:00 PM

To Be is to Be towards Death: Tagore's Last Poems

While reading some of Tagore's last poems from Shesh Lekha—translated by Kaiser Haq and Fakrul Alam and printed in The Essential Tagore— I could not stop relating Tagore's views on death with the ontology of Being and nothingness.

18 August 2017, 18:00 PM

Now that It's August Cry out in Sorrow

Now that it's August, cry out in sorrow Bengalis!

18 August 2017, 18:00 PM

On Retiring

Six professors of the Department of English of Dhaka University retired recently and were given a farewell on the occasion. The following poems were penned for this occasion.

11 August 2017, 18:00 PM