CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM Creative non-fiction
POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
28 November 2025, 19:31 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

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

The Principle of Resonance

The Architect of designated Life
15 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

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

Dhaka Landing

Dhaka was still slumbering. The sun was yet to come up, and the silence spread over the pitched road was yet to be swallowed by the
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM

From Dhaka and Dirty Dialectics:

But, Dhaka, I hear your sepoy in the attic say, as he fashions his life after the size and shape of a solitude more tenacious than my
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM

Two Idiots in Dhaka

That building over there—that is the High Court!
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM

Tears of Unmet Love

Once upon a decade, a lost soul had fallen in love with the flaws of another one. He saw beauty in the eccentricity of her grey skin,
28 July 2017, 18:26 PM