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 Principle of Resonance
The Architect of designated Life
15 September 2017
What If?
He said she was his Achilles' heel long before she had read Homer. "What's an Achilles' heel?" She asked with the innocence of a
8 September 2017
The Craig's List
The newly weds were still living with ramshackle old furniture and gadgets ~ different pieces collected over the years that my son had
8 September 2017
SIX SHARED SEASONS
Let us say you dream of a woman,
25 August 2017
In and Around Boston As an Actor-to-be
Almost in front of the entrance to, and egress from, the Goodge Street subway station on Tottenham Court Road stood a coin-
25 August 2017
August is the Cruellest Month
Shamsur Rahman's “Song of Electra,” is a poem about a daughter lamenting her father's inopportune death. He is really none other than the father of our nation who was snatched from us one dark August night in 1975.
18 August 2017
To Be is to Be towards Death: Tagore's Last Poems
While reading some of Tagore's last poems from Shesh Lekha—translated by Kaiser Haq and Fakrul Alam and printed in The Essential Tagore— I could not stop relating Tagore's views on death with the ontology of Being and nothingness.
18 August 2017
Now that It's August Cry out in Sorrow
Now that it's August, cry out in sorrow Bengalis!
18 August 2017
On Retiring
Six professors of the Department of English of Dhaka University retired recently and were given a farewell on the occasion. The following poems were penned for this occasion.
11 August 2017
Orange Man from Netrakona
Besides daily errands, Aklima Begum had barely been outside her Dhanmondi apartment in months. At first there seemed no plan to it.
11 August 2017
Silent but Near
It is true that Rashid Karim Gholam Murshed, aka Rashid Karim, surrendered his physical life to death. But it is not true that he gave
11 August 2017
Rabindranath’s 76th death anniversary being observed
The 76th death anniversary of the Bard of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore is observed.
6 August 2017
Two Idiots in Dhaka
That building over there—that is the High Court!
4 August 2017
Dhaka Landing
Dhaka was still slumbering. The sun was yet to come up, and the silence spread over the pitched road was yet to be swallowed by the
4 August 2017
From Dhaka and Dirty Dialectics:
But, Dhaka, I hear your sepoy in the attic say, as he fashions his life after the size and shape of a solitude more tenacious than my
4 August 2017
Tears of Unmet Love
Once upon a decade, a lost soul had fallen in love with the flaws of another one. He saw beauty in the eccentricity of her grey skin,
28 July 2017
Beyond the Shadows of Life
She kept on walking.
28 July 2017
The Lights of Love
The universe has a way of tossing us into the winds of time
28 July 2017
Jane Austen's words, in numbers
Jane Austen is seeing something of a revival, if that can be said of an eternally popular writer, this year.
27 July 2017
Becoming a Janeite
I cannot exactly pinpoint the first time I read Austen. Back in high school? Or in one of my earlier semester breaks as an undergrad?
21 July 2017