Star Literature

POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems

28 November 2025, 19:31 PM Books & Literature

LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage

28 November 2025, 19:30 PM Books & Literature

CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu

21 November 2025, 18:28 PM Books & Literature

CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69

19 November 2025, 10:28 AM Books & Literature

CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark

19 September 2025, 19:09 PM Books & Literature

CREATIVE NONFICTION / A visit before the journey

5 September 2025, 18:59 PM Books & Literature

FICTION / The dawn’s return

5 September 2025, 18:58 PM Books & Literature

Poetry / Silence, our witness

22 August 2025, 19:02 PM Books & Literature

CREATIVE NONFICTION / Space between the scrolls

15 August 2025, 19:00 PM Books & Literature

FICTION / Give back the forests, take away this city

8 August 2025, 19:12 PM Books & Literature

Bangali ghosts vie for the fishes

That night, the wind howled like the wolves as Shyam and Alameen rowed silently, their boat traversing through the misty air and the water rippling gently beneath them.

25 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Mother saves her corpses before lunch

Mother woke before sunrise with the weight of the house pulling at her bones and moved against the cold floor, the chill biting at her ankles. In the corner hung the gutted rabbit, its blood pooling on the floor. Her fingers trembled, as she bathed herself in it, coating her skin red.

25 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Silence

A star fell on the ground in the windy night

18 October 2024, 18:00 PM

October: An unfinished poem

Glamorous lightweight raindrops from the October sky keep

18 October 2024, 18:00 PM

A surreal graphic novel by Subimal Misra

As I read Subimal Misra–I was therefore seized by the urge to bring out his stories, or "anti-stories", in graphic form

18 October 2024, 18:00 PM

On the national anthem of Bangladesh: An apologetic discourse (part two)

The question here should be: Why does the nationality of the poet matter if the sentiment and emotional dimensions are the central focus that keeps the dynamic of a national anthem active?

18 October 2024, 13:58 PM

Republic of the dead

As if playing a game of chess / Still the world waits for the next dawn

17 October 2024, 14:30 PM

Utpal Dutt and the new dawn

The audience for the jatra was all any Marxist theatre director in Kolkata could have wished for.

14 October 2024, 13:44 PM

On the national anthem of Bangladesh: An apologetic discourse

The recent attack on “Amar Shonar Bangla” stems from this type of attempt to categorise the national anthem, leading to further allegations against it

12 October 2024, 14:15 PM