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
FARAAZ
From Paradise gazing, we saw green on your face
29 June 2018
INTO THE BLACK FOREST
Towering evergreen trees, thick clumps of fern and gorgeous waterfalls—yes, we are talking about Schwarzwald or
29 June 2018
The World's End
The rusted bogies were scattered like confetti at the path's end. Mounds of bricks and sand, abandoned boxes, stray
29 June 2018
The Idea of a Private University
Perhaps it is time one should write on the real idea behind a private university and prove that Newman and his ideas
29 June 2018
THE MAN WITH THREE NATIONALITIES
“This house,” said Mr Ranodhir Palchaudhuri, the owner of the colonnaded 19th century Neel Kuthi at Maheshgunj, “was built by a
22 June 2018
SEX OR SLEEP OR SILK
You are the night
22 June 2018
GOODGE STREET STATION
For a split second I was startled beyond belief. For a longer while, maybe about a minute, I must have stood still with my mouth agape
22 June 2018
At an Ominous Time
My spirit is in tatters
8 June 2018
Snippets
Boss: What is a Botox filler?
8 June 2018
Two Poems
When home is broken
8 June 2018
Once in a Blue Moon
That Man with heavy glasses-
8 June 2018
THE SMOKE ALARM
Since it was my fourth or fifth visit to the US, I considered myself a pro there. When I reached my cousin's home in Hicksville, Long Island on a Monday morning, she was busy preparing to leave for office.
8 June 2018
A Requiem of Rain
Maybe it was a feeling of triumph that I felt on my way to the bus stand. A sensation of joy took me over and made me forget about
1 June 2018
The Philosopher & the Poet
These stories were told to John Drew by the Hungarian poets Ádám Nádasdy, translator of Shakespeare and Dante, and Győző Ferencz, Keeper of the Radnóti Archive.
1 June 2018
Poetry
Death news often comes
1 June 2018
Literature's #MeToo
The committee that decides the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature every year is in shambles. The Swedish Academy, rocked by a sexual harassment scandal against an individual close to the committee,
31 May 2018
Proloyullash
Ring out your notes of triumph!
Ring out your notes of triumph!
25 May 2018
Temples and Mosques
“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.
25 May 2018
Kazi Nazrul Islam: Some Questions and Concerns
In his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections, and accents of resistance and even revolution.
25 May 2018
Daybreak
A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-
18 May 2018