FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

“Poetry should be free from Royalist Canada's university elites' hierarchy to come down to mass people” - was the resounding declaration

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It doesn't want a handful of puffed rice

From behind a counter inside Tasty, her brother Anik's bakery shop, Hridi watches an old Westerner repeatedly tug on the glass door

With the examination season on, people feel pity for the stressed students burning the midnight oil as well as for their parents who, in

Perhaps, it is better to turn around.

As Bird flocks take wing at the rattle of sten guns

The indescribable grief and agony the aftermath of 1971 had set off in the eventful life of Ferdousi Priyabhashini can be perceived

On March 1 at 1.00 pm when Yahya Khan declared on the radio that he was suspending the National Assembly session because of the

Right now, I am all blue. I was supposed to have my feet on the ground, and study for my upcoming exam–which is in two days.

Azgar Ali was not worried when the war broke out. Theirs was a quaint little village hiding by the slopes near the Garo Hills. It took

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The historic announcement of March 7 by Bangabandhu was, in fact, the call for the independence of Bangladesh. The speech inspired

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In the sultry air of March yawns my absence.

As Josh Katz says in a recent New York Times article, there has been a 540% increase in Fentanyl-related deaths over the past three

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"Most children have two whole legs and two whole arms but this little six-year-old that Dinesh was carrying had already lost one leg, the right one from the lower thigh down, and was now about to lose his right arm.” Anuk Arudpragasam's powerful debut novel “The Story of a Brief Marriage” starts with this haunting description of a shrapnel-struck child being brought to a makeshift clinic and about to undergo

Nationalism is one of the most powerful political ideologies of the world and its wave still vibrates through the Indian subcontinent

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."