Ali Tareque

Ali Tareque is a Bangladeshi-born writer based in Houston, Texas. He is the author of the English novel Echo of the Silence (Arrow Books/Penguin Random House, 2023) and the Bangla short story collection Sontan o Sonketer Upokotha (Roots, 2022). Alongside fiction, he writes poetry, directs plays and films, and performs elocution.

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ESSAY / Two awakenings: Reading ‘Dhorai Charita Manas’ and ‘Things Fall Apart’

My readings of the two books—the subject of this write-up—happened to be on two momentous occasions, set two decades apart in utterly contrasting ways.
14 November 2025, 20:03 PM
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FICTION / The u-turn

Is he eyeing me?.That young man with the receding hairline, flipping through a paperback on a discount table. No, revise that. He is not so young really, as my second take reconsiders. A freshness in his eyes made him look more youthful. If not for his thinning scalp, that little paunch un
26 September 2025, 19:02 PM
dhorai_chorito.jpg

Two awakenings: Reading ‘Dhorai Charita Manas’ and ‘Things Fall Apart’

My readings of the two books—the subject of this write-up—happened to be on two momentous occasions, set two decades apart in utterly contrasting ways.
14 November 2025, 20:03 PM
Story 1.jpg

The u-turn

Is he eyeing me?.That young man with the receding hairline, flipping through a paperback on a discount table. No, revise that. He is not so young really, as my second take reconsiders. A freshness in his eyes made him look more youthful. If not for his thinning scalp, that little paunch un
26 September 2025, 19:02 PM