Poetry

In Manzur Elahi's garden
28 December 2018

Editor's Note

Perhaps it is a little late, but here it is. A two-day international conference on Karl Marx's birthday titled “Language, Literature, Culture
28 December 2018

Living Amidst the Catastrophes of “the Living Contradiction”

“By its nature,” Marx writes in the climactic passage of a magnificent but very dense section of the Grundrisse, capital “posits a barrier
28 December 2018

Spoilers Alert: Meghnadhbadh Rahasya Revealed

Anik Dutta's 2017 movie Meghnadhbadh Rohoshya is a clever evocation of naxalgia. Fifty years after the Naxalbari movement, the
28 December 2018

Karl Marx on India: An Assessment (Part I)

In a Delhi bookshop this October, I came across Karl Marx on India. Edited by Iqbal Husain, former Professor of History at Aligarh
28 December 2018

When the Lights Went Out

I feel like unmasking myself, Because no one will see.
21 December 2018

The Blue Sparrow

The blue sparrow is about to fly away; it flaps its wings. I stare deep into its eyes in a rush and whispered, “Take me with you, please.”It accepts my request. Under its wings the blue sparrow takes me in, my sin, my soul and all of my unfulfilled aspirations.
21 December 2018

A Walk around the Home of Emily Brontë

Around 2014, while working on my dissertation on Emily Brontë, I suddenly realized that it was rather strange that I had never been to Yorkshire.
21 December 2018

Remembering Nehreen Khan: Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam's Memorial Lecture at EWU

It was on a beautiful afternoon on 4 December, 2018 in S. M. Nowsher Ali Lecture Gallery at East West University Campus, Aftabnagar, Dhaka that Professor Syed
21 December 2018

From The Daily Star Bookshelf

As 2018 wraps up, we decided to talk to some of our colleagues about the books that have accompanied them this past year. We started out trying to find recommendations hot off the press; but found out that it's been a year for older titles.
20 December 2018

Their Songs

I know a craven Mir Jafar
14 December 2018

KHEYA'S WAR

The ant mound was intact until Kheya stepped on it. Pappu was trying to pick some ripe oranges from the big orange tree by the gate. While running toward him, Kheya stepped right on the mound and got attacked by a platoon of red ants.
14 December 2018

From Ekattorer Chithi

Salaam. Hope you are well by the grace of Allah. Convey my respect and regards to others in the house. In this battle we are all here
14 December 2018

Telling (Hi)stories

My passport will tell you I am as old as the country itself. I am actually one year older than the country. That's what my mother told me, and that's how it was recorded in my early school documents.
14 December 2018

The 42nd Annual Book Sale of the Friends of the Library, Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Book Buy (Part II)

It was Leo Tolstoy whose Yasnaya Polyana residence and retreat located outside Moscow was classified by him as his 'inaccessible literary stronghold.
7 December 2018

Rokeya and Woolf: Souls that Have Lived

There are some amazing similarities between the Bengali writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and her English counterpart Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) that will make you wonder whether every great soul that has ever lived experiences the same dimension of reality in different shapes.
7 December 2018

Light Mist

She wished to become a light mist
7 December 2018

TWO POEMS

Butterflies flit, turn and flutter
7 December 2018

The Colours of Tomorrow

2140. Earth has been given to Mechatronix for the protection of its remaining animals. Most of these are humans and are often the most chaotic.
7 December 2018

In the Ring

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind-
30 November 2018