Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026
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Creative Nonfiction / Before the monsoon had a name
29 April 2026
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Creative non-fiction
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026
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Creative non-fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026
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Creative non-fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION / From autumn to winter in the northeast England
7 February 2026
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Books & Literature
POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
28 November 2025
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Books & Literature
LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025
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Books & Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025
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Books & Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69
19 November 2025
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Books & Literature
Nani’s salt
Her voice, thin as a whisper, sharp as a blade, sliced through the kitchen air thick with mustard oil and regret.
13 June 2025
Runner
Like little boys racing against red-orange hues against dark, dark blue to spread the day’s news;
9 May 2025
A Bengali Buddha in Blighty
Pride of place above the fireplace in the sitting room of our little house in distant Blighty is a painting from North Bengal.
2 May 2025
Fleeting panic
“I’m scared” a voice calls out.
2 May 2025
The morgues are full
In Gaza, the names of the martyrs slip through silence, lost to a world too distracted to listen
4 April 2025
Making headlines
We'll put up feigned politicians / And their fake promises instead
4 April 2025
6 literary characters we wish could join our Eid table
What if our Eid table had a few extra chairs reserved not for guests from our world but from that of the books we’ve loved throughout our life?
4 April 2025
Once Upon an Eid
S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed (eds.)Amulet Books, 2020
28 March 2025
Of glitter pens, prestige, and Eids in Dhaka
Being a Dhakaite, your Eids in childhood were spent in mournful longings for something to happen.
28 March 2025
Your guide to feminist resistance
This International Women’s Day, Star Books and Literature brings to you a list of five books that delve into the history of feminist movements and feminist resistance.
7 March 2025
Retribution
Mohsin would burst into laughter, saying, "Justice for rape? Is that even a crime worthy of justice?"
Rabeya, laughing alongside him, would add, "People expect justice for rape these days? I'm speechless at their naïveté!"
7 March 2025
Broken bridges don’t burn
face to face, 20 taka in my pocket and
this keyless map
do you think love ever ends?
28 February 2025
Sighs, ember and lies.
Pebbles strewn pavement
Keep drawing me back
28 February 2025
Moving forward
I hope you fight with your mother when you have a migraine, / I hope there's a holud ceremony playing item songs right beside your building
28 February 2025
This world is full of paper
at night I look past my window / moon like a bruise hoisted on the shoulder of onlookers / as they draw their curtains
28 February 2025
Titled 'Loss'
you don't recognise yourself, / everything is lost like a fish in Lethean space. / you have mistaken truth for love again
28 February 2025
There is a point to this, I think
Here are a few things I learned in the one month we haven’t spoken
28 February 2025
'Bhasha Andoloner Itihash' by Bashir Al Helal
Tracing back the events before the Language Movement of 1952, Al Helal presents a detailed account of the events that unfolded during February 1952.
21 February 2025
Hilly river
Imagine it’s raining cats and dogs
The hilly river has let the hair loose
21 February 2025
Finding Obayed Haque: A contemporary writer who lives in his words
If you pick up an Obayed Haque novel, you won’t find an author’s photo, a detailed biography, or even a note about his life.
21 February 2025