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
In the Halls of the Mughal Kings
A fading comet trail of snippets from the halls of the Mughal Kings remain immortally enshrined in memory’s space.
4 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Take My Breath Away
They say that life is not measured
by the number of breaths we take
But by the moments
that take our breath away.
28 August 2020, 18:00 PM
The Door
She knocks on the door,
The door-bell is broken; a sculpture of unknown figure hangs on the wall,
The door is solid, but not made of Mahogany wood.
28 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Moving On
Flowers on Facebook —
Violet, red, yellow, orange —
splashed a welcome
into a garden never visited
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Maya
I’m telling you
amidst the whispering cropped-headed paddy field,
in the lore of these reeds,
in the orchestra of these auburn after-harvest field
by the seedlings that crack this soil--
I am their spokesperson.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Substitute Cook
Last November, our elderly maid servant Fatema’s ma who works full-time at our house, wanted to take leave to get her son married. Of course, I agreed immediately. But she would be gone for about two weeks and hence she proposed that her eldest son’s wife might work in her absence.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Poetry
The river wept, as we left
But its tears were not for us.
21 August 2020, 18:00 PM
I’m Not Here to Shed Blood this Day
Like everyone else present here, I, too am so fond of roses,
14 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Poetry of Nirmalendu Goon
How Freedom Became Our Own Word
14 August 2020, 18:00 PM
For a Pinch of Life
A damp siren screamed at the rushing wind. Black and thick smoky clouds slowly clotted in a grey sky, as if preparing for some kind of a ritual.
7 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Politicking with Pain
I can’t sleep anymore
Piano. Storms. White noise
Nothing works.
7 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Diary of Pandemic Days
It’s already been several months since we’ve been hurled into the vortex of the coronavirus. The virus lives among us, silent and invisible.
7 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Himadri Lahiri’s Diaspora Theory and Transnationalism
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader (2017) co-edited by Klaus Stierstorfer and Janet Wilson made significant observations about the increase in global movement of people, capital, products, cultures and ideologies;
24 July 2020, 18:00 PM
in a sleepless trance
I hold stares - I sing to the moon
Rigid, motionless - senseless woes
24 July 2020, 18:00 PM
The Retirement
The human race is doing quite well. There was a possibility of a climate catastrophe in the early 21st century but they came to their senses soon enough and managed to deal with it by 2050.
24 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Understanding Addiction: A Review of Like a Diamond in the Sky
Unshaven, skeletal men, with hollow, black-ringed eyes, sitting in silent solitude in inner city gutters. Youngsters turned ageless by addiction, their endless need for the next fix drowning out all other desires, commitments or relationships.
17 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Sparkling Elizabeth and Timid Anne: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Readers over the last two centuries have generally liked the bright and sparkling world of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, whereas Persuasion has often been described as “a departure from the rest of the novels, a turning away from the brilliant and public play of the mind for the deep and private truths of the heart” (Morgan 168).
17 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Aha Nandalals
Like my long dead father’s face
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM
The Darkness Looming
They said, when it will be the darkest
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM
FORGET-ME-NOTS
Splashes of blue in the springtime green,
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM