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
Poets from Palestine: Verses written in tears and blood
Resistance takes many shapes and forms, from taking up arms, to facing police batons, to picking up a pen
7 October 2024, 15:15 PM
Storm child
This is the third and final part of “Storm Child”, serialised here on Star Literature
5 October 2024, 14:45 PM
The wheel of change
Eternity collapses at the wheel of change. / Past is lost
4 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Exiles and memories
Markan didn't have an answer. The word "Arakan" felt distant, like something from a dream he couldn't quite remember
4 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Fall
August, marked with dying things. Summer’s end, / My freedom spent
4 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh’s writers on Wikipedia: Abbasuddin Ahmed and Humayun Kabir
If such writers lived in, and contributed to the literary legacy of, other countries, I will offer a compromise and propose a hyphenated identity.
3 October 2024, 14:17 PM
Carpe diem
but i can't. i cannot be bothered to find / meaning behind the faults in my father's eyes
27 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Birth of a poem
Hark! / Busy work of Hands
27 September 2024, 18:00 PM
The tall and short of it
It feels like only two days ago that my dadu was still here, worrying I’d always be too short like her.
27 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Valley of blood
teardrops trickling down / the valley / mingling with the static— / hollow waves of Kaptai lake
27 September 2024, 13:45 PM
My heart's longevity comes from my maa's magnifying kindness
Maa, you are an endless exhibition / of sweet-sour happiness
26 September 2024, 13:30 PM
Alone beneath the mountains
His final sentiments were etched into the table before he succumbed to his final rest: "I found solace in the mountains. They demanded nothing and remained steadfast by my side."
25 September 2024, 16:00 PM
Stories of passing strangers
My train just started / I found my seat / When she called me
22 September 2024, 13:51 PM
Humanity at risk
Was it a spectacle—filmed the whole incident? / Why didn’t you withstand? / Why didn’t you try to desist?
22 September 2024, 11:00 AM
A night in Kalimpong
As I turn back, my eyes catch sight of what appears to be hands, but of a tan, furry kind, feeling its way inside the sliding doors
21 September 2024, 16:00 PM
On travel and writing
It is perhaps not an overstatement to say that humans are, at their core, wanderers.
20 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Hazardous miasma
The night smoke carries out the riots of innocents,
13 September 2024, 18:00 PM
The creek drank the sorrows you sang to
Rose-tinted glasses are just red, and I have painted myself with the color
now that the hollow of your eyes isn’t there, now that
13 September 2024, 18:00 PM
Residence
I plead but I know there is nothing I can do. Akbar, in a rare fit of courage, tries to intervene. But the old man does not budge. Maybe he knows about Mina and me.
13 September 2024, 18:00 PM
City of bougainvillea
“The roads are too clean. The sun is too bright,” she thought.
13 September 2024, 10:26 AM