Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Creative Nonfiction / Before the monsoon had a name
29 April 2026, 19:25 PM
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News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
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Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
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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
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69
19 November 2025, 10:28 AM
Books & Literature
Key holes
We hide our wet lace behind a trellis of plants, our voices honeyed from jaded soap operas.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
RADA LOOMS
Bret and I were marching resolutely towards our Holy Grail, waiting for us only a couple of hundred meters or so away, though still out
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Gabo's Solitude
Love for stories, rather fairy tales, begins from childhood. The stories of childhood travel by flights of fancy. As we grow up though,
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Metamorphosis
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock,
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Signifier: Alas, that I am only what I am not.
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Rice
In the wooded marshland of Manbhoom, the mountain peaks stretched beyond the horizon. Spring was almost gone; palash trees in
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Decision Pending
He was hell-bent on getting out of Purgatory. There was no good reason for him to be in this position but here he was. It really wasn't
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Principle of Resonance
The Architect of designated Life
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
What If?
He said she was his Achilles' heel long before she had read Homer. "What's an Achilles' heel?" She asked with the innocence of a
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Craig's List
The newly weds were still living with ramshackle old furniture and gadgets ~ different pieces collected over the years that my son had
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
SIX SHARED SEASONS
Let us say you dream of a woman,
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
In and Around Boston As an Actor-to-be
Almost in front of the entrance to, and egress from, the Goodge Street subway station on Tottenham Court Road stood a coin-
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
August is the Cruellest Month
Shamsur Rahman's “Song of Electra,” is a poem about a daughter lamenting her father's inopportune death. He is really none other than the father of our nation who was snatched from us one dark August night in 1975.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
To Be is to Be towards Death: Tagore's Last Poems
While reading some of Tagore's last poems from Shesh Lekha—translated by Kaiser Haq and Fakrul Alam and printed in The Essential Tagore— I could not stop relating Tagore's views on death with the ontology of Being and nothingness.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Now that It's August Cry out in Sorrow
Now that it's August, cry out in sorrow Bengalis!
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
On Retiring
Six professors of the Department of English of Dhaka University retired recently and were given a farewell on the occasion. The following poems were penned for this occasion.
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Orange Man from Netrakona
Besides daily errands, Aklima Begum had barely been outside her Dhanmondi apartment in months. At first there seemed no plan to it.
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Silent but Near
It is true that Rashid Karim Gholam Murshed, aka Rashid Karim, surrendered his physical life to death. But it is not true that he gave
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath’s 76th death anniversary being observed
The 76th death anniversary of the Bard of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore is observed.
6 August 2017, 06:26 AM
Two Idiots in Dhaka
That building over there—that is the High Court!
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM