To Jenny

Daddy died, Black beard grew: mommy left me.
9 December 2016

Two Poems

Renowned poets from all over the country
2 December 2016

Galloping through a park

Beneath the dissolved, age eaten luminous stone,
2 December 2016

Sweet Springtime Snapshot

Springtime in Melbourne, her fifth time in this abode of blood-ties and new generation, but her first in this season of renewal.
2 December 2016

Coetzee's Jesus

Sometimes the web of obscurity becomes visibly so obvious to the viewer that such obscurity emerges as clarity.
25 November 2016

One of our own

This was 1973. Bangladesh had been born only about two years before. I was on my way back to Dhaka after attending a seminar in Belgrade, capital of the then Yugoslavia.
25 November 2016

SUDHANGSHU WON’T GO

From ransacked temples and torched ancestral homestead,
18 November 2016

AND SO THIS LONG EXILE

Two pieces of roti or a red earthen plateful
18 November 2016

The flawed brilliance of Bob Dylan

Ever since he appeared on the New York folk scene, presenting himself as an anonymous exile from a place of no distinct identity – “My name it means nothing, my age it means less, the country I come from it's called the Midwest” – Bob Dylan has worked to elude definition.
18 November 2016

Dhaka Lit Fest 2016: VS Naipaul raises the curtains

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul inaugurates the Dhaka Literary Festival, with this the three-day festival kicks off at the Bangla Academy premises.
17 November 2016

Nobel laureate VS Naipaul to inaugurate Dhaka Literary Festival Nov 17

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul is coming to Bangladesh to attend the Dhaka Literary Festival that will be held at the Bangla Academy on November 17-19.
13 November 2016

A Sojourn in Time

My long desired visit to Meghalaya this year in fact pushed me back to the landscape of the days we spent here taking refuge in 1971
11 November 2016

Meeting Liz

“No need to pay, I like you enough to give a free night,” Liz said to me.
11 November 2016

Nothing is Lost

He watched from his window as the seasons changed. There was no yearning in his gaze, just a weary observer looking through glass
4 November 2016

VERNAL VISUAL: MELBOURNE DIURNAL

The diurnal and the nocturnal gyrations of the earth, the magnetic and gravitational attraction and repulsion of the celestial spheres
4 November 2016

Into the Heart of Bengal

If literary delights are more to the taste than culinary, George Thompson englishes the improvised songs of the palky-bearers taking
4 November 2016

A New YA Fantasy Series Worth a Quick Dive

I was introduced to the Summoner series in a time when I was craving to read and delve into a new world with very little time to spare.
2 November 2016

Bob Dylan breaks silence on Nobel Prize

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, has finally told the Swedish Academy that he will accept the prize.
29 October 2016

The Other Handmaid's Tale

I happened to be living in California when the twin towers were destroyed and, although a long way from New York, I observed
28 October 2016

Into the Heart of Bengal

“Most men carry weapons of defence with them. I carry none. A revolver was offered me before I started but I declined it. My
28 October 2016