CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / From autumn to winter in the northeast England
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POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
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LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
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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
19 November 2025, 10:28 AM
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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
22 August 2025, 19:02 PM
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Caricature
Caricature boys
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
The Old City
Here are the steps leading down to the lake
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Companions
They sit on the veranda every afternoon; an old man and an old woman. The man is in his seventies with white hair thinning in the
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath Tagore's Spring Songs
Since whether you keep me in mind or not isn't in my mind at all,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
All about Love
“So, Monsieur! What are you going to sing for me today? Neele neele ambar, perhaps?” she asked flaunting her azure saree. For once,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Whirlpool of Our Stories
And I come here to take your hand,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
The Three-Legged Cat
Ammu is crying in the next room. Incessantly. I can't stand it any longer. Why did she do it? I have no doubt that she did it even
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
When Kokeshi Sleeps
Go hush hush, go shh shh
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Crossing Borders
In one of my trips to the USA, I had a ticket on Royal Jordanian Airlines with a stopover at Amman. I halted there for three days, saw
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
I imagine the lives of others,
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Chronicle of a Death Least Foreseen
As I was just leafing through Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a feeble attempt to cope with the emptiness
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Musings on a Poet, a City and a Football Team
Alone upon the housetops, to the North
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
From an untitled,unfinished, unpublished 1971 story
I knew it was Tipu, without even looking at the blanket-wrapped body they were carrying on their shoulders. I knew it was Tipu, because as always, he had filled up every space with his presence. He was my only child, and I often
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Syed Manzoorul Islam: “A Veritable Man of Letters”
Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam – or SMI sir, as he is popularly known to us, his current and former students – is one of the most dynamic people I know. I first met him about twenty-five years ago in an undergraduate classroom where he
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Unknowable
how do you explain that love
is a monstrous shape-shifting beast
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Grief Tourist
Stepping into unknown spaces,
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Bewitching Heidelberg
Much like the famous German song “Ichhabmein Herz in Heidelberg verloren” by Fred Raymond, which later became the theme song of
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Music, the Goddess of Passion
I confess: music for me is intimate. I don't know about genres and canons. Nor do I know the reasons that compel a composer to
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Why I started writing in English
I am Bengali. I am a writer.
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Inspirational, Imaginative, Unconventional-Razia Khan Amin
There is hardly anything anywhere in the net to indicate how good Razia Khan Amin (1936-2011) (aka Razia Khan, or Mrs. Amin to us
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM