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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark
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Poetry / Silence, our witness
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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From an untitled,unfinished, unpublished 1971 story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