CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
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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

First Song before My Second Death

Is this the world whose soil gave away for long
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM

The Shame of Return

To catch the last train, I've kind of run all the way to the station and glimpsed
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM

West, East

The white woman and her husband fell into silence again. About a while ago the train was heading east, and now,
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM

The Great Burial

The heron had dreams in her wings
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Traffic Lights

The traffic signal turned red. I was in the front seat. My nephew, Ron was driving towards home, thoughtful as he looked straight
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Of Music and Passion

The sargam falls silent
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Seasons

As he watched the summer sun burn his skin to a darker shade of brown, he went into a reverie and saw his life like a flashback. The
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

My East Bengal

My East Bengal, how astonishingly she is
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Drone strikes and authorial intentions

I saw Eye in the Sky the afternoon it opened in London. I went with few preconceptions, knowing only that it was about drones and
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

The Wedding Ring

The Pakistanis were beaten at last. The flag of Bangladesh flew over the independent country. We all returned celebrating victory.
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Rising to the Surface

Readers of this paper may have seen a “short story” entitled “The Rising of the Dead”, which appeared on April 23, 2016. Presented as a work of fiction...
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Two Poems by Ahsan Habib

At last, I built a home on the ash-stacks of fallen leaves,
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Introduction

May this afternoon's feeble shadows fall upon all the heady lines of my poetry, or may heaps of dry leaves blaze up in flames beside them
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Of Things

Things are material in the hardest sense of the term. Things have shapes, textures, structures, and even timbres. Things have tones,
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

New In Nagaland

The war that changed India and the world had one of its history-changing battles take place in the sprawling hills of Kohima. Across
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Murakami's Kafka on the Shore

When Kafka Tamura runs away from his Tokyo house the day he turns fifteen to escape a strange curse his father set upon him, little does he know his life will end up with so many twists and turns.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Long To Belong

She walks the walk of her steps
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

NEW IN NAGALAND

Once upon a time, there were head-hunters. Only presence we found in April 2016 were two skulls perched on bamboo shafts on
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The Bones of Grace

Tahmima Anam concludes her Bengal trilogy with a novel that, in recounting the story of a love across continents and ethnic lines,
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The Spy who Lives on

It was the summer of 1965. A tall, young man with dark shades in his early 30s got on his motorbike and embarked on a long arduous journey of over 350 kilometers starting from Dhaka and finally arrived at Kaptai...
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM