POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
14 May 2024, 17:26 PM
POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
POETRY / Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
POETRY / They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
When?
The scents and colours of the morning
arouse the wetness of the night.
The dewdrop splendour awakens the
dawning sunrise drenched in colours
1 January 2021, 18:00 PM
The Wind’s Only Recourse
The wind afire
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Regeneration
I couldn’t get to my university hostel. From Petaling Jaya to Pantai Hill Park, KL Central and Mid Valley, changing one bus after the other; no one knew where my hostel was.
25 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Three, Not Three
In the farthest end of the horizon across the river by the edge of a forest surrounding the dark hills sat a cottage made of dried palm leaves and rattan sticks in which lived an old woman.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Three Songs of Freedom
Music has the power to delve into the heart of the listeners and create decision affecting moods. During the liberation war, songs became a weapon to influence the mood and morale of the nation.
18 December 2020, 18:00 PM
An Interview with Saikat Majumdar
Dr. Saikat Majumdar, a professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India, is an acclaimed writer, academic, critic and commentator on current debates.
4 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Revisiting Karl Marx - Yet Again
When Waqar A Khan, Founder, Bangladesh Forum for Heritage Studies, requested yours truly to take a look at a book written by a nonagenarian academic from the UK named Eric Rahim,
27 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Dhaka Lives in My Backbone
The chestnut tree in my courtyard is in full bloom,
27 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Dream-Catcher
The two- storeyed house stood lonesome with paddy fields behind it. A big pond lay on the opposite side of the narrow alley. Taltoli is still a quiet neighborhood, yet to be devoured by the urban landscape because of its situation.
27 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Beyond the Rebel Poet: Nazrul’s Versatility
A bland, matter-of-fact statement about Kazi Nazrul Islam would be that he is the National Poet of Bangladesh
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Words
Words are strangers
On a hospital bed
Fighting for Life.
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
The First Session
It was a mild Fall afternoon. The sky was clear and the sunlight was pouring into a medium sized office with floor length windows at 86 Nutt Road in Phoenixville, PA.
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
The Story of Stories
Once an inquisitive reader asked me, “Could you please tell me where do the fiction-writers get so many stories from?”
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Minefields of Memory
Ceaseless the struggle to comprehend how
Such cataclysmic upheavals, such seismic seizures
Altering the landscape of lives,
the very topography of trauma
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Fakir Lalon Shah: Subjects, Sites, and Signs
Fakir Lalon Shah—who orally composed thousands of songs in Bengali —died on October 17, 1890—on Kartik 01, 1297 (the Bengali year).
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
The Cosmic Lover
O Allah, into your endless plays
Who could delve—
You call out to Allah
Being Allah yourself.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Man is the Measure
Serve your human guru first
With your heart and soul
If you feel like fulfilling
Your yearnings in this world.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Sourav’s Song
No need to wonder what you are:
Bengal’s brightest, closest star
in the night sky - though on the Earth
none noticed your auspicious birth.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Kissed by the dusk: Eugene O’Neill
On the 132nd birth anniversary of Eugene O’Neill, the Shakespeare of American Theater, the question is: did he ever die?
23 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Translation, Culture and Politics
A discussion of Translation and its theories often remains circumscribed to a discourse arguing about the issues of authenticity.
23 October 2020, 18:00 PM