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