A Welsh Poet Foresees His Death: Rakhine Province, 1944.

As many hundreds of thousands of refugees stream out of Rakhine, leaving behind family killed and homes reduced to ashes, it may seem, and maybe is, peculiarly insensitive, untimely and Eurocentric to refer to the death of one Welsh poet in their homeland nearly 75 years ago.
17 November 2017

Searching

A pebble ran to a beach in search of a home
17 November 2017

Graphic novel ‘Mujib’ launched in English at Dhaka Lit Fest

After successful publications of the graphic novel on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangla, the English version of the first part of the novel series "Mujib" is unveiled at the Dhaka Lit Fest at Bangla Academy in Dhaka.
16 November 2017

The story of a bat: Cricket in Rwanda

On October 28th, Rwanda will celebrate the opening of its first real and certainly grassiest cricket ground in the capital, Kigali. Brain
10 November 2017

An Afternoon at Katabon Pet Shop

It took more than an hour for Rupa to reach her destination. After paying the fare she started walking past the pet shops in Katabon.
10 November 2017

Port of Tranquility

On a sun baked plateau, infused with the hue of stained blood and brown bread, caressed by the waves of the immortal spirit, which
10 November 2017

Dhaka on a sad day

With pedal click the rickshaw's here
10 November 2017

Catmoir

Cats are to be hated. And their whining, which some might lovingly define as meowing, is nothing but tiresome whimpering. At least
10 November 2017

With Sukhu Mia across Bangladesh

Dogs usually live for some ten to thirteen years. Small sized breeds may live a little longer, but the bigger the size, the smaller the
10 November 2017

In Memoriam

Some memories like unexploded grenades
3 November 2017

History is Muse

The muse offers herself in full glory;
3 November 2017

The Listener of Stories

My mother says I have always been a quick learner; I can remember her stories well. I can retell them in front of people, copying her
3 November 2017

Flashback

The idea of this poem came to Shahidul in 2012, soon after his Sussex MA dissertation on Modernism, where Eliot was one of his
27 October 2017

Chile poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, deepen mystery: Experts

A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
21 October 2017

Poetry

The language of self-deception—
20 October 2017

Government Employees of Bangladesh Another 'Diasporic' Community

“Take your belongings and head for the old dormitory. The dorm is a good one; it's located at the south-east of the college campus—
20 October 2017

Inside RADA for the First Time

Bret and I entered a cavernous RADA room, and not a moment too soon! What seemed like a thousand pairs of eyes stared at us as we
20 October 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro's Craft of Recreating Memory and Forgetfulness

That Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year is significant for various reasons. The declaration of Bob
13 October 2017

Enchanted

You remind me of the ocean,
13 October 2017

Three Untitled Poems

slick-silvered fish
13 October 2017