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
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
Books & Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / A visit before the journey
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
Books & Literature
FICTION / The dawn’s return
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM
Fiction
Poetry / Silence, our witness
22 August 2025, 19:02 PM
Books & Literature
All that I shouldn’t have known
What I wish I didn’t know is that when your dear friends whisper the word “psycho” behind your back, you’ll grow up accepting it.
28 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Storm child
You must have heard the story of your birth a thousand times by now, sweetheart. Your mother and I—home alone.
28 June 2024, 18:00 PM
All that I’d despicably known / Things I wish I didn’t know
All that I’d despicably known / Things I wish I didn’t know–
28 June 2024, 18:00 PM
The things I wish I had never known
I skip talking to myself for hours / The “me time”, before going to bed
26 June 2024, 13:45 PM
The journey
If you travel on a bus, always take the window seat.
21 June 2024, 18:00 PM
The exiled daughter
Is it true that when we migrate, we lose a few people from our past?
21 June 2024, 18:00 PM
The first downpour will be my cue
Raindrops whisper on the tin roof’s drum,
21 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Jishu
After the previous tenant vacated the house, Khan E Alam decided not to accommodate any younger residents.
21 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Violence
On my birthday,
Bitan genially offers
14 June 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Gayatri Sandhya’ is a document of the broken dreams of our people
Selina Hossain is a celebrated novelist in the realm of Bangla literature.
14 June 2024, 18:00 PM
After the rain
Again, I wasn’t a poet, but words and sentences jumbled up seeing that small face, light make-up enhancing her beauty. A loose strand of hair cascaded down her cheek, framing her face.
14 June 2024, 18:00 PM
The golden hat
It was not a question one would ask as he did/ With his round glasses at the end of his nose
13 June 2024, 13:45 PM
burnt honey
i quite like the smell of cloves, even more when they're burning/ turning charcoal in front of my eyes
7 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Raw Magnolias
This is a garden, these are my petals; this is my armoring plant
7 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Storm child
The majority of my early childhood was spent in a big house filled with endless possibilities. At least, that’s what my preteen self thought at the time.
7 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Shut your eyes to dance away the rainy nights
Shut shut let me shut my eyes, for even though / the dawn confiscating the dusk’s shades of greys arrives, / there is no place for me
7 June 2024, 14:30 PM
The searing beast
Sweat beads upon my brow, my shirt begins to cling/ The vile monster's tendrils reach out, adhesive
6 June 2024, 13:45 PM
Charles Dickens, colonialism, and the slave trade
Time has not forgiven him for his racist and imperialist views
2 June 2024, 13:45 PM
I've seen love
I've seen love/ Rolling down from a mother's eyes/ As she picks her lean child, bathed in innocent blood
1 June 2024, 14:06 PM
No longer eighteen
like a caterpillar cocooned into its shell undergoing metamorphosis—growing up sneaks up to you whether you want it or not
31 May 2024, 18:00 PM