Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026
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Books & Literature
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
3 July 2026
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Literature
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026
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Literature
POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024
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Star Literature
POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024
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Star Literature
THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
13 December 2024
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Star Literature
Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
14 May 2024
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Literature
POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024
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Star Literature
FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024
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Star Literature
POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023
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Star Literature
My Aunt Summer, a Sonnet
Summer! My aunt in red, redundant words,
12 April 2019
Muse of Baishakh
Baishakh is yet to show up,
12 April 2019
Pohela Baishakh My Bengali New Year Musings
Pohela Baishakh, in other words, got momentum as a kind of counter-discourse -- a vibrant collective and spontaneous response to the damming of the Bengali nationalist consciousness by successive Pakistani military governments working in cahoots with Muslim League politicians.
12 April 2019
TOMORROW'S NATION BUILDERS
Ecstatic high achievers and proud parents of tomorrow's nation-builders filled the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium
6 April 2019
“Novels cannot always be made only with the Imagination and the Pen”: A Talk with Mostofa Kamal
Novelist Mostofa Kamla was born in the village of Andharmanik under Barisal district on 30 May 1970. He started his career as a
5 April 2019
The College Professor
My cousin Nirmalya was born and brought up in Delhi. He would visit us in Kolkata occasionally while visiting his ancestral home and
5 April 2019
Two Poems
Autumn leaves are seasoned
5 April 2019
The Last Burger
A brown, robust dog looks on anxiously while sitting at a busy intersection of the city. The male dog has chosen a dark and safe place
5 April 2019
Touring the Land of the Lake Poets
The picturesque mountainous area in the north-west part of England, commonly known as the Lake District, is a top favorite tourist
5 April 2019
Freedom Fighter
Ever-undaunted, I am heading forward, ignoring all obstacles,
29 March 2019
Melancholy Medicine
60 mg of Prozac
29 March 2019
Sodium: (Na)mesake
Have you seen my City?
29 March 2019
Cricket and Visions
On March 18th, a poet named John was hit in the eye and knocked out by a ball while playing an informal game of cricket. Perhaps
29 March 2019
Not Like This
The wise their moments spare will spend
22 March 2019
Independence, how this word became ours
With the excitement of waiting for a poem to be composed
22 March 2019
Charon’s Obol
“Mukti?” The word was a tremor of butterfly wings.
22 March 2019
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Hits a Century
Thanks to Google I have, at a click of the mouse, discovered that in our time around 165 members of the literary professions have
22 March 2019
The 1971 we don’t talk about
According to estimations, around 200,000-400,000 women were tortured and raped by the Pakistani Military and their collaborators
22 March 2019
The Olden Times of 2019
Cowsar sat there, looking outside his garden at the Red Planet's artificial-earthen beauty. The red earth looked surprisingly pretty in the blinding light of the sun.
20 March 2019
A Writer's Enigma
I cannot write. For a month, it lingers. Every morning, I sit in front of my laptop and hope to write something new, something noble. But nothing comes out. Not a word, not a sentence. As if the sea of creativity has dried up.
15 March 2019