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
The Old City
Here are the steps leading down to the lake
9 February 2018
Companions
They sit on the veranda every afternoon; an old man and an old woman. The man is in his seventies with white hair thinning in the
9 February 2018
The Three-Legged Cat
Ammu is crying in the next room. Incessantly. I can't stand it any longer. Why did she do it? I have no doubt that she did it even
2 February 2018
When Kokeshi Sleeps
Go hush hush, go shh shh
2 February 2018
Crossing Borders
In one of my trips to the USA, I had a ticket on Royal Jordanian Airlines with a stopover at Amman. I halted there for three days, saw
2 February 2018
Poetry
I imagine the lives of others,
26 January 2018
Chronicle of a Death Least Foreseen
As I was just leafing through Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a feeble attempt to cope with the emptiness
26 January 2018
Musings on a Poet, a City and a Football Team
Alone upon the housetops, to the North
26 January 2018
From an untitled,unfinished, unpublished 1971 story
I knew it was Tipu, without even looking at the blanket-wrapped body they were carrying on their shoulders. I knew it was Tipu, because as always, he had filled up every space with his presence. He was my only child, and I often
19 January 2018
Syed Manzoorul Islam: “A Veritable Man of Letters”
Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam – or SMI sir, as he is popularly known to us, his current and former students – is one of the most dynamic people I know. I first met him about twenty-five years ago in an undergraduate classroom where he
19 January 2018
Why I started writing in English
I am Bengali. I am a writer.
12 January 2018
Unknowable
how do you explain that love
is a monstrous shape-shifting beast
12 January 2018
Grief Tourist
Stepping into unknown spaces,
12 January 2018
Bewitching Heidelberg
Much like the famous German song “Ichhabmein Herz in Heidelberg verloren” by Fred Raymond, which later became the theme song of
12 January 2018
Music, the Goddess of Passion
I confess: music for me is intimate. I don't know about genres and canons. Nor do I know the reasons that compel a composer to
12 January 2018
Imagination's winter
When snow falls, people at a distance
5 January 2018
Specks of Dreams and Polarized Dusts
I fell asleep within my sleep and woke up to find myself in your dream, which is also mine.
5 January 2018
From Enchanted Delta
Nadeem longed to join the crowds in the streets. When no one was around, he watched his own face in the mirror as he improvised a
5 January 2018
Inspirational, Imaginative, Unconventional-Razia Khan Amin
There is hardly anything anywhere in the net to indicate how good Razia Khan Amin (1936-2011) (aka Razia Khan, or Mrs. Amin to us
5 January 2018
Stairway to Wonderland
Past giant mountains, which collide with the blue linings of the abyss,
29 December 2017