Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026
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Creative non-fiction
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
A View from the Ladies Common Room, Dacca University
DU. How those letters conjure up a sense of awe and bittersweet memory. Always in the vanguard of political, progressive
13 July 2018
I Can Prove Mathematically
I swear by my mother's milk: I swear in the name of metals and minerals, in the name of coffee and coco, in the name of land and labor, that an emergency-poem like this one needs ample prose and even crude mathematical proofs.
13 July 2018
The Greatest Gift
It is a bright Sunday morning in spring. Most of the Boulderites are enjoying the outdoors. The curious sunbeams peek through the kitchen window to greet a slim girl with curly hair. Her name is Geeta Kulkarni. She is busily working on her dishes.
13 July 2018
STORY-ISH
He calculated the distance, the people between them, and kicked the football with perfect precision at her – that haughty one – gliding
6 July 2018
A Short, Winding and Legendary Dhaka Road
Fuller Road, the short and winding road in the middle of the University of Dhaka campus, is quite legendary, not only as far as the
6 July 2018
The Enchanted Wood and other childhood stories of travel
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a little girl got her hands on a book, a book about siblings, of living in the countryside, and going on adventures—a book that would later give way to other books on more adventures and misadventures, turning the little child into an adult who constantly daydreams of taking off to some faraway land.
5 July 2018
Niceland Iceland
the fragment is all that survived…
29 June 2018
FARAAZ
From Paradise gazing, we saw green on your face
29 June 2018
INTO THE BLACK FOREST
Towering evergreen trees, thick clumps of fern and gorgeous waterfalls—yes, we are talking about Schwarzwald or
29 June 2018
The World's End
The rusted bogies were scattered like confetti at the path's end. Mounds of bricks and sand, abandoned boxes, stray
29 June 2018
The Idea of a Private University
Perhaps it is time one should write on the real idea behind a private university and prove that Newman and his ideas
29 June 2018
THE MAN WITH THREE NATIONALITIES
“This house,” said Mr Ranodhir Palchaudhuri, the owner of the colonnaded 19th century Neel Kuthi at Maheshgunj, “was built by a
22 June 2018
SEX OR SLEEP OR SILK
You are the night
22 June 2018
GOODGE STREET STATION
For a split second I was startled beyond belief. For a longer while, maybe about a minute, I must have stood still with my mouth agape
22 June 2018
At an Ominous Time
My spirit is in tatters
8 June 2018
Snippets
Boss: What is a Botox filler?
8 June 2018
Two Poems
When home is broken
8 June 2018
Once in a Blue Moon
That Man with heavy glasses-
8 June 2018
THE SMOKE ALARM
Since it was my fourth or fifth visit to the US, I considered myself a pro there. When I reached my cousin's home in Hicksville, Long Island on a Monday morning, she was busy preparing to leave for office.
8 June 2018
Poetry
Death news often comes
1 June 2018