Angry at a former boss for threatening to cut the workers' pay, Bangladeshi construction worker Md Mukul Hossine starts scribbling poetry on the bags of cement.

After two phases of namaj-e-janaza, Nurjahan Begum, the editor and publisher of weekly magazine Begum, is buried at Martyred Intellectual Graveyard in Dhaka’s Mirpur. She passes away at a Dhaka hospital at the age of 91. Born on June 4, 1925, she is a daughter of prominent journalist Mohammad Nasiruddin, editor of Bangla literary journal Saogat and awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2011.

Hunger engulfs me: In my belly, the feeling

Sonargaon Hotel had not started then in Dhaka. The Shahbagh Hotel was turned into Institute of Post Graduate Medicine. The elite

Last month Donald Trump and I happened to be in Chicago at the same time. He was there for the Republican primary. I wasn't.

The title and the epigraph of Zafar Anjum's Kafka in Ayodhya give a good indication of the central concerns of the short story collection...

What wind is it lilting my thoughts so amazingly?

Language mold me, Its structure and form bind me

If the city is razed to the ground, the last clock stopped ticking...

Rabindranath Tagore, during his visits abroad, he engaged in intriguing conversations with brilliant minds from across the world – starting from British sci-fi master HG Wells to French dramatist-art historian Romain Rolland to genius German physicist Albert Einstein – where he spoke about the correlation of art and science, international relations and religion, and multiculturalism.

It's over half a century since France – its thinkers, writers, artists, film-makers – became an object of fascination with

Behula silently prayed to Padma and stepped on the walkway. Even a fly falling on it was sliced instantly. Nothing

Kaiser Haq, The Triumph of the Snake Goddess. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2015

A compilation of some of his lesser-known works.

and where will you be when I feel pain?

Thousands of years, I've been knocking around the world's ways

Written words last forever. Women and children in masterly works of fiction are endearing characters. The endearment lasts a lifetime.

It's been an embarrassingly long time since I sat down to write something.

The English language wouldn’t be the same without Shakespeare. He is credited with inventing over 1700 common words and phrases we still use today

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