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
Poetry
Death news often comes
1 June 2018
A Requiem of Rain
Maybe it was a feeling of triumph that I felt on my way to the bus stand. A sensation of joy took me over and made me forget about
1 June 2018
Literature's #MeToo
The committee that decides the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature every year is in shambles. The Swedish Academy, rocked by a sexual harassment scandal against an individual close to the committee,
31 May 2018
Proloyullash
Ring out your notes of triumph!
Ring out your notes of triumph!
25 May 2018
Temples and Mosques
“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.
25 May 2018
Kazi Nazrul Islam: Some Questions and Concerns
In his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections, and accents of resistance and even revolution.
25 May 2018
Daybreak
A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-
18 May 2018
Two Poems
You taught me language, and my profit on't
18 May 2018
When I Met Pip
When I met Pip, he was hanging upside down. It was not by choice though; someone held him by his feet against his will and made
18 May 2018
Professor Fakrul Alam: Literature, Life and Translation
He is surely one of the most loved and respected professors in Bangladesh. Even though he was mostly anchored at the Department of
18 May 2018
O Herald of the New (Hey nutan)
Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again.
11 May 2018
The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh
The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on—
11 May 2018
Tagore, Gitanjali and the Nobel
It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali or Song
11 May 2018
Mother
None can fathom
11 May 2018
Dressed Like a Daydream
The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-
4 May 2018
Ghalib Ki Dilli (Part II)
Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened
4 May 2018
Poetry
You, who are
27 April 2018
The Endless I
Within the givens of life
27 April 2018
OF WEDDING GIFTS
After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to
27 April 2018
My Life with Shakespeare
When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.
27 April 2018