Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative non-fiction
Creative Nonfiction / Before the monsoon had a name
29 April 2026, 19:25 PM
Creative non-fiction
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
News
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
Creative non-fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION / From autumn to winter in the northeast England
7 February 2026, 01:54 AM
Books & 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
The First Session
It was a mild Fall afternoon. The sky was clear and the sunlight was pouring into a medium sized office with floor length windows at 86 Nutt Road in Phoenixville, PA.
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Beyond the Rebel Poet: Nazrul’s Versatility
A bland, matter-of-fact statement about Kazi Nazrul Islam would be that he is the National Poet of Bangladesh
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Words
Words are strangers
On a hospital bed
Fighting for Life.
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Minefields of Memory
Ceaseless the struggle to comprehend how
Such cataclysmic upheavals, such seismic seizures
Altering the landscape of lives,
the very topography of trauma
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
The Story of Stories
Once an inquisitive reader asked me, “Could you please tell me where do the fiction-writers get so many stories from?”
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Fakir Lalon Shah: Subjects, Sites, and Signs
Fakir Lalon Shah—who orally composed thousands of songs in Bengali —died on October 17, 1890—on Kartik 01, 1297 (the Bengali year).
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
The Cosmic Lover
O Allah, into your endless plays
Who could delve—
You call out to Allah
Being Allah yourself.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Man is the Measure
Serve your human guru first
With your heart and soul
If you feel like fulfilling
Your yearnings in this world.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Sourav’s Song
No need to wonder what you are:
Bengal’s brightest, closest star
in the night sky - though on the Earth
none noticed your auspicious birth.
6 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Kissed by the dusk: Eugene O’Neill
On the 132nd birth anniversary of Eugene O’Neill, the Shakespeare of American Theater, the question is: did he ever die?
23 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Translation, Culture and Politics
A discussion of Translation and its theories often remains circumscribed to a discourse arguing about the issues of authenticity.
23 October 2020, 18:00 PM
The spirits of the forest
The spirits of the forest
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Something missing
Something missing from
this dish and that.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Clipped wings
I’ve been screaming for so long
My aching throat feels raw,
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
On Vocabulary in Writing
Back in the mid-90s when I was majoring in English literature at a public university in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I was a cricket buff. For the Bangladeshis, cricket was a transnational love affair in the 90s.
16 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Nazrul beyond Bangla
Kazi Nazrul Islam needs no introduction to those familiar with Bangla literature. He and his works are, for cogent reasons, less known in other circles.
9 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Reflection
My mother has a habit of staring intently at reflective surfaces. When alone, she will look directly into mirrors with a vacant look in her eyes.
9 October 2020, 18:00 PM
American poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel literature prize
American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for works exploring family and childhood in an "unmistakable...voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal", the Swedish Academy has said.
8 October 2020, 13:28 PM
The Nest
(I guess) some birds don’t return to roosts.
2 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Farewell, Dear Moon
Body trembling, tears falling
2 October 2020, 18:00 PM