Chile poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, deepen mystery: Experts

A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
21 October 2017, 04:36 AM

Poetry

The language of self-deception—
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Government Employees of Bangladesh Another 'Diasporic' Community

“Take your belongings and head for the old dormitory. The dorm is a good one; it's located at the south-east of the college campus—
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Inside RADA for the First Time

Bret and I entered a cavernous RADA room, and not a moment too soon! What seemed like a thousand pairs of eyes stared at us as we
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Enchanted

You remind me of the ocean,
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Three Untitled Poems

slick-silvered fish
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

A Backward City I'm in Love with

Honk, honk the automobile keeps sounding.
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Rebel Poet

One day he will sing his song.
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Metamorphosis of an Artist as a Heroic Man

The night of November 20th, 1993 was in many ways Kafkaesque for Rashid Karim, one of the major novelists of Bangladesh. The
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Kazuo Ishiguro's Craft of Recreating Memory and Forgetfulness

That Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year is significant for various reasons. The declaration of Bob
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Capsule

Our conversations end mid-sentence.
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Romancing the Senses-Hearing

Wikipedia lists the 5 senses thus: taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing, and they are all important, but it's sight that dominates the
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

BATTLE OF THE SENSES?

Battle? What does it mean? One sense against another? No, it's an intellectual tamasha in which six professors of English Literature
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Sixth Sense

1. Both Sigmund Freud and Jung studied the unconscious but did not strongly emphasize the 'Sixth Sense' or the Intuitive one,
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

The Sense of Touch

It was a pair of forceps that brought me into the world. The metallic tongs pulled me out of my mother's womb. I don't remember the
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Who reads young adult books?

How the young adult genre evolved to gain universal readership
5 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize

British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, wins the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.
5 October 2017, 11:14 AM

Snippets

Him: Off to India. What should
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Eternal Song

I celebrate myself—
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The Fish of Kalshi

“The whole area will be digital!” says Taimur Reza, the scrawny, bald-and-bearded proprietor of Taimur's betel leaf stand on the
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM