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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Amay Nahe Go Bhalobasho..
Dearest, even if you won't love me
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
The One Who Shows the Way
An unknown Darvish arrived in town that dawn. People rose euphoric, as if rising from the churning of the sea; they were everywhere-
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Kazi Nazrul Islam 1899-1976
Kazi Nazrul Islam was enticed by the challenge of writing a (Song of Separation) in a Bhatiyali tune. River Padma is,
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Reminiscing Shanchita
As a child, I was not an ardent fan of the "Rebel Poet". I was made to memorise “Bidrohi” before I started going to school; and, I can
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Understanding Nazrul and His World
How did Nazrul perceive the world literature of his time? Was he widely read, and did he interact with the literary ideas shaping
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Thinking about Nazrul in Cuba: Love and Revolution
I visited Havana, Cuba, in January this year. I was invited there to give a lecture on the significance of Fidel Castro and the reception of
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Kazi Nazrul Islam and the October Revolution
On 25 October 1917 in Russia – 7 November in India – the Bolsheviks led an armed insurrection against Petrograd. News of the
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Traversing Cohen
I want to write a letter to a woman from a time now past.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Overseasoned
Digging his grave in a mine,
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Tales of Everlasting Endearment
Women and children in masterly works of fiction tend to be endearing. From Bengal to Russia, the endearment lasts a lifetime;
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
MADE IN AMERICA!
Though times have changed, in the several visits I made to the US over the last twenty years, one headache has remained constant –
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Nineteen Thirty-Four
A motorcar
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Religion, Diaspora and the Politics of a Homing Desire
Let me dedicate my inaugural musing in this page to the writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora spread all over the world; after all, I
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Portrait of the poet as young woman
Her hair
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum
This remarkable book records a unique feat. In sequenced essays, its many contributors led by their mastermind...
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath and the Question of Nationalism
To read Rabindranath Tagore's lectures on Nationalism delivered in 1916 in Japan and in America is to feel that he positively detested it.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Visva-Bharati: A Civil Public Space for All Ages
All of us are products of our times – but while most of us are carried on time's shoulders only a few are able to carry time on theirs.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
My Tent of Hymns
Our house rules required us siblings to sit before our father every morning for a session on the literary classics.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Living and dying by the code
“How many governments have fallen,” the prince had gone on, “And how many kingdoms have been swept from the face of the earth, and Orosh is still standing.”
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
A Prisoner of Memories
I do not really know. I never really thought I would or could write. The first piece I wrote was of course some old Grimm Brothers' fairy
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM