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
Baishakhi Spirit, which art Moving Everywhere
My phone is bombarded with SMS alerts notifying me of various deals available for Baishakh: the discounts that are offered in various
13 April 2018
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: KUTCH
Imagine Bengal like this: all the rivers have dried up. Periodically, there are earthquakes. For mile after mile there is only desert scrub:
6 April 2018
Poetry
Some days I come knocking at your door
6 April 2018
In Search of a Hero
“If I were a hero …” Arif stopped suddenly.
6 April 2018
Poetry
It doesn't want a handful of puffed rice
30 March 2018
Pity
From behind a counter inside Tasty, her brother Anik's bakery shop, Hridi watches an old Westerner repeatedly tug on the glass door
30 March 2018
EXAMINATION WOES
With the examination season on, people feel pity for the stressed students burning the midnight oil as well as for their parents who, in
30 March 2018
I Can Choose to Go, But Why Should I?
Perhaps, it is better to turn around.
30 March 2018
Snippets
Her: Seen yesterday's sunset?
30 March 2018
MY USELESS WEAPON
As Bird flocks take wing at the rattle of sten guns
23 March 2018
Ferdousi Priyabhashini: “A Lifelong Impression of Eternal Struggle”
The indescribable grief and agony the aftermath of 1971 had set off in the eventful life of Ferdousi Priyabhashini can be perceived
23 March 2018
The Days of War
On March 1 at 1.00 pm when Yahya Khan declared on the radio that he was suspending the National Assembly session because of the
23 March 2018
Skull among Bricks− a Grey Frame
Right now, I am all blue. I was supposed to have my feet on the ground, and study for my upcoming exam–which is in two days.
23 March 2018
The Death of Sorrow
Azgar Ali was not worried when the war broke out. Theirs was a quaint little village hiding by the slopes near the Garo Hills. It took
23 March 2018
Folk Hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
The process through which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975) became a folk hero in Bangladesh, that is to say, the way in which his
16 March 2018
Bangladesh During those Turbulent Days of March, 1971
The historic announcement of March 7 by Bangabandhu was, in fact, the call for the independence of Bangladesh. The speech inspired
16 March 2018
LOVE IN THE TIME OF TINDER
“Are you interested in spiritually inclined younger men?” My recent tinder match asked.
9 March 2018
Footprints of Million Lives
Darkness had fallen upon the graveyard of thousand lives, along with a cold breeze which swept away the rotten stench of dead flesh.
9 March 2018
A Life Truly Worth Living
Say this, don't say that.
9 March 2018
ICONS, AUTOGRAPH HUNTING AND SAVVY ACTRESS-IN-TRAINING
I was never an autograph hunter. Never felt the urge, or the thrill, or the bragging right, or any of the rapid heart-thumping emotions
9 March 2018