Literature

POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you

13 December 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature

POETRY / Our Bangla

13 December 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature

THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day

13 December 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature

Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92

14 May 2024, 17:26 PM Literature

FICTION / The loss of essentiality

15 March 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature

POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND

8 December 2023, 18:00 PM Star Literature

POETRY / Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy

8 December 2023, 18:00 PM Star Literature

ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children

8 December 2023, 18:00 PM Star Literature

POETRY / They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain

1 December 2023, 18:00 PM Star Literature

Regeneration

I couldn’t get to my university hostel. From Petaling Jaya to Pantai Hill Park, KL Central and Mid Valley, changing one bus after the other; no one knew where my hostel was.

25 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Three Songs of Freedom

Music has the power to delve into the heart of the listeners and create decision affecting moods. During the liberation war, songs became a weapon to influence the mood and morale of the nation.

18 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Three, Not Three

In the farthest end of the horizon across the river by the edge of a forest surrounding the dark hills sat a cottage made of dried palm leaves and rattan sticks in which lived an old woman.

18 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Sudhir Chakravarti, renowned writer on folk culture, dies aged 86

Eminent researcher of Bangla folk culture and writer Sudhir Chakravarti died in a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 86 years old.

15 December 2020, 17:38 PM

Remembering and Rereading Rokeya: Patriarchy, Politics, and Praxis

December 09 marks both the birth and death anniversaries of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). The Rokeya Day in Bangladesh also falls on December 09. Indeed,

4 December 2020, 18:00 PM

An Interview with Saikat Majumdar

Dr. Saikat Majumdar, a professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India, is an acclaimed writer, academic, critic and commentator on current debates.

4 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Revisiting Karl Marx - Yet Again

When Waqar A Khan, Founder, Bangladesh Forum for Heritage Studies, requested yours truly to take a look at a book written by a nonagenarian academic from the UK named Eric Rahim,

27 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Dhaka Lives in My Backbone

The chestnut tree in my courtyard is in full bloom,

27 November 2020, 18:00 PM

The two- storeyed house stood lonesome with paddy fields behind it. A big pond lay on the opposite side of the narrow alley. Taltoli is still a quiet neighborhood, yet to be devoured by the urban landscape because of its situation.

27 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Beyond the Rebel Poet: Nazrul’s Versatility

A bland, matter-of-fact statement about Kazi Nazrul Islam would be that he is the National Poet of Bangladesh

20 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Words

Words are strangers On a hospital bed Fighting for Life.

20 November 2020, 18:00 PM

The First Session

It was a mild Fall afternoon. The sky was clear and the sunlight was pouring into a medium sized office with floor length windows at 86 Nutt Road in Phoenixville, PA.

20 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Minefields of Memory

Ceaseless the struggle to comprehend how Such cataclysmic upheavals, such seismic seizures Altering the landscape of lives, the very topography of trauma

13 November 2020, 18:00 PM

The Story of Stories

Once an inquisitive reader asked me, “Could you please tell me where do the fiction-writers get so many stories from?”

13 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Himu ki mahapurush?

Himu has none of the intelligence or powers of deduction of Misir Ali. Himu says the wrong thing at the wrong time. He helps people, but only after causing undue chaos and misery.

13 November 2020, 15:06 PM