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Kaiser Haq

Kaiser Haq is a Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic.

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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / An inter-cultural romance

The author of this book is the protagonist of a charming inter-cultural romance. He is one of fewer than a handful of living Westerners who fortuitously fell in love with Bengali literature and made a distinguished career of teaching it—at the University of Chicago in his case.
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Shards of beauty: Poems of a lifetime

Shahid Alam and I go back a long way, though we had both half-forgotten it until recently. He was two years senior to me at St. Gregory’s High School.
2 July 2025, 18:00 PM
2 July 2025, 18:00 PM
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KA DINGA PEPO

It is odd that nowadays One seldom hears the words
29 September 2023, 18:00 PM
29 September 2023, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Alternative routes

The book as a whole is a rigorously pursued exercise in the close reading of a fascinating and diverse array of modern texts that aren't quite in the category of the canonical mainstream.
28 April 2023, 18:00 PM
28 April 2023, 18:00 PM
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‘FOR YOUR SAKE, O FREEDOM’ 1971 and Bangladeshi poetry

Bangladeshi poetry has always been sensitive to socio-political issues and public themes. In discussing the poetic response to the Liberation War, therefore, it is useful to start with the broad historical background, move on to the literary tradition, and then consider the poetry itself.
25 March 2023, 18:00 PM
25 March 2023, 18:00 PM
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FRESH OFF THE PRESS: FICTION / HEFTY AT FIFTY: ‘When the Mango Tree Blossomed’ and other short stories from Bangladesh

The centenary of the Father of the Nation, and following on its heels the golden jubilee of the country’s independence, have precipitated a tireless round of celebratory events and an avalanche of varied publications.
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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1971: Some fragments of memory

For a couple of months after the 1970 elections everything seemed simple and straightforward.
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
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TRIBUTE / Remembering a literary personality: Farida Majid (1942-2021)

I find two distinct types among denizens of the world of letters. There are writers single-mindedly focused on literary production in one genre or more, and others I would call, for want of a better term, literary personalities.
6 October 2021, 18:00 PM
6 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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GRISHMA, BARSHA

The azan goes
9 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Poor Man Eating

Were I a painter
31 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt: A Birthday Tribute

We celebrate Michael Madhusudan Dutt's birthday on 25 January, but we cannot be certain that this is absolutely accurate, just as we
20 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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A TRUE MAN OF LETTERS:

Bernard Bergonzi, poet, literary critic and novelist, died on 20 September at the age of 87. He was born in the Southeast London suburb
14 October 2016, 18:00 PM

OH TO BE IN PARIS

It's over half a century since France – its thinkers, writers, artists, film-makers – became an object of fascination with
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Can there be a virtual poetry revival?

The amount of poetry on the net is simply staggering. All the great and popular poems we have – or ought to have – read are a mouse click away.
8 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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