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 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
On (Dis)connection between Reading and Writing
Back in 2005 in California, I was reading Edward Said’s Power, Politics, and Culture. This book is a collection of twenty-eight interviews
19 April 2019
You Were Never Really Here
The eyes often grow heavy
19 April 2019
Necropolis
The empty lane of the cemetery was lit by the ancient stars flickering above. The wind had leaves dancing on their branches. It was a
19 April 2019
The Living Fountains
There is a buzz in the house this morning. Things are on the move. Nishat has taken full command, directing her troops to advance swiftly. I look at my watch and ask chotu to fetch my briefcase and the driver to get the car out.
19 April 2019
Stranger to Myself
MD Sharif Uddin's memoir Stranger to Myself: Diary of a Bangladeshi in Singapore was awarded best non-fiction at the Singapore Book Awards in 2018.
18 April 2019
Muse of Baishakh
Baishakh is yet to show up,
12 April 2019
Pohela Baishakh My Bengali New Year Musings
Pohela Baishakh, in other words, got momentum as a kind of counter-discourse -- a vibrant collective and spontaneous response to the damming of the Bengali nationalist consciousness by successive Pakistani military governments working in cahoots with Muslim League politicians.
12 April 2019
Hunting for Hilsa
My mother told me to get a big Ilish maach for Pohela Baishakh. My face went pale. However much I claimed to love my mother, I had no wish to go to the maachher bazaar.
12 April 2019
The Charyapadas: Where Bangla Began
Creating the world and nirvana on their own,
12 April 2019
My Aunt Summer, a Sonnet
Summer! My aunt in red, redundant words,
12 April 2019
TOMORROW'S NATION BUILDERS
Ecstatic high achievers and proud parents of tomorrow's nation-builders filled the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium
6 April 2019
“Novels cannot always be made only with the Imagination and the Pen”: A Talk with Mostofa Kamal
Novelist Mostofa Kamla was born in the village of Andharmanik under Barisal district on 30 May 1970. He started his career as a
5 April 2019
The College Professor
My cousin Nirmalya was born and brought up in Delhi. He would visit us in Kolkata occasionally while visiting his ancestral home and
5 April 2019
Two Poems
Autumn leaves are seasoned
5 April 2019
The Last Burger
A brown, robust dog looks on anxiously while sitting at a busy intersection of the city. The male dog has chosen a dark and safe place
5 April 2019
Touring the Land of the Lake Poets
The picturesque mountainous area in the north-west part of England, commonly known as the Lake District, is a top favorite tourist
5 April 2019
Freedom Fighter
Ever-undaunted, I am heading forward, ignoring all obstacles,
29 March 2019
Melancholy Medicine
60 mg of Prozac
29 March 2019
Sodium: (Na)mesake
Have you seen my City?
29 March 2019
Cricket and Visions
On March 18th, a poet named John was hit in the eye and knocked out by a ball while playing an informal game of cricket. Perhaps
29 March 2019