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Books & Literature
POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
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Books & Literature
LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025, 19:30 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / A visit before the journey
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
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FICTION / The dawn’s return
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Fiction
Poetry / Silence, our witness
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Books & Literature
Proloyullash
Ring out your notes of triumph!
Ring out your notes of triumph!
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Temples and Mosques
“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Kazi Nazrul Islam: Some Questions and Concerns
In his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections, and accents of resistance and even revolution.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Daybreak
A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
You taught me language, and my profit on't
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
When I Met Pip
When I met Pip, he was hanging upside down. It was not by choice though; someone held him by his feet against his will and made
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Professor Fakrul Alam: Literature, Life and Translation
He is surely one of the most loved and respected professors in Bangladesh. Even though he was mostly anchored at the Department of
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
O Herald of the New (Hey nutan)
Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again.
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh
The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on—
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore, Gitanjali and the Nobel
It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali or Song
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Mother
None can fathom
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Dressed Like a Daydream
The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib Ki Dilli (Part II)
Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Ghalib ki Dilli (Part I)
I should have been listening to one of the scores of imaginative events on the poetry, life and times of the pre-eminent poet of the
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
You, who are
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
The Endless I
Within the givens of life
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
OF WEDDING GIFTS
After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
My Life with Shakespeare
When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Jibanananda Das: Baitarani
I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore Songs
With him, “no” will never do.
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM