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
ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023
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Star Literature
The Enigma of Articles
Language mold me, Its structure and form bind me
13 May 2016
BEFORE THE CITY IS DESTROYED
If the city is razed to the ground, the last clock stopped ticking...
13 May 2016
Smart Stories
The title and the epigraph of Zafar Anjum's Kafka in Ayodhya give a good indication of the central concerns of the short story collection...
13 May 2016
Tagore's encounters with luminaries of the West
Rabindranath Tagore, during his visits abroad, he engaged in intriguing conversations with brilliant minds from across the world – starting from British sci-fi master HG Wells to French dramatist-art historian Romain Rolland to genius German physicist Albert Einstein – where he spoke about the correlation of art and science, international relations and religion, and multiculturalism.
8 May 2016
OH TO BE IN PARIS
It's over half a century since France – its thinkers, writers, artists, film-makers – became an object of fascination with
6 May 2016
The Triumph of the Snake Goddess: an excerpt
Behula silently prayed to Padma and stepped on the walkway. Even a fly falling on it was sliced instantly. Nothing
6 May 2016
A Sort of National Epic for Bangladesh: Kaiser Haq's The Triumph of the Snake Goddess
Kaiser Haq, The Triumph of the Snake Goddess. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2015
6 May 2016
Tagore for Hipsters
A compilation of some of his lesser-known works.
4 May 2016
Tête–à–tête
and where will you be when I feel pain?
29 April 2016
Banalata Sen
Thousands of years, I've been knocking around the world's ways
29 April 2016
Sarbojaya and Surabala
Written words last forever. Women and children in masterly works of fiction are endearing characters. The endearment lasts a lifetime.
29 April 2016
Stories for the Summer
It's been an embarrassingly long time since I sat down to write something.
27 April 2016
Words and phrases you won’t believe Shakespeare invented
The English language wouldn’t be the same without Shakespeare. He is credited with inventing over 1700 common words and phrases we still use today
23 April 2016
NIGHTMARE
When did these dead people awake from their graves?
22 April 2016
The Rising of the Dead
I stepped inside the house through the drawing room doors. The smell of death assailed my senses. The smell was stale – all pervasive.
22 April 2016
We Are At Odds
Time changes
22 April 2016
Poet Syed Shamsul Haq flown to London for treatment
Eminent litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq is flown to UK for treatment as he has been suffering from critical lungs disease.
16 April 2016
I Need to Believe
In the name of justice...
15 April 2016
The Tale of a Slave
It often happens nowadays
That I do not find my head
Spine, is now a distant memory!
A question crops up constantly, at birth
15 April 2016
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
By the end of July 1907, news reaches Atiya through a student named Parmeshwar Lal that Iqbal's patriotic songs published in Makhzan have become so popular that they are being sung in the whole of northern India: 'houses, streets, alleys resounded with Iqbal's national songs, which created a feeling of nationalism unknown in India before.'
15 April 2016