Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew

If you grew up watching Disney's animated classic Alice in Wonderland, you must have questioned a lot of the peculiar aspects or as

A perfect read for the month of our victory, Stories from the Edge is an anthology of personal and deeply emotional narratives of our

On August 26, 2017, DS brought out a special supplement on the1947 partition of Bengal. It contained fine articles on the subject by

First published in 1973, Amy Geraldine Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University: 1947-1951, is not just another memoir. The current

Freedom, you are

His ears attuned to the husky whisper

Some day, I will make a film about a group of lepers. These lepers, who—living in their melting , rotting bodies, but still resistant—

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.

“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.

507 dead and 22,407 injured in political violence in Bangladesh in 2013

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,

“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

In 1666 Margaret Cavendish wrote a science fiction work titled The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World, although it

This is the fourth installment of the six-volume autobiography of Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard and has been translated

With the aforementioned Akan proverb, Yaa Gyasi welcomes the readers to her novel, “Homegoing”, where dark history unravels itself, reminding the readers of the slave trade that has carved its marks on history's shoulders.

The room is locked from outside;

Early the next morning, after Rafi finally turned off the TV and closed his eyes on the couch, a text message startled him out of sleep: “Get a big American flag, hang outside your door, Dad.” His father always signed off, even though his name would appear with his texts and calls. Rafi set down the phone and tried to sleep again. A second text intruded on it: “Take down Black Lives Matter sign. Please. For now. Dad.”

The poet may be the priest of the invisible if we are to concur with Wallace Stevens. When art and poetry intersect, the invisible suddenly turns into the visible truth and this visible art is the skein that keeps the freedom of expression

Benjamin Eric Sasse aka Ben Sasse is a freshman Republican Senator from Nebraska. A doctorate in American History from Yale, Sasse was named President of Midwestern University, Freemont Nebraska in 2010.

We were out in the park, frolicking—all sixteen of us. Well, sort of! We were gamboling all right, but this was a part of the Alexander Technique exercise, something any casual observer in the park might not have understood.