POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
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THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM
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Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
14 May 2024, 17:26 PM
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POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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POETRY / They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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TOMORROW'S NATION BUILDERS
Ecstatic high achievers and proud parents of tomorrow's nation-builders filled the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium
6 April 2019, 18:00 PM
“Novels cannot always be made only with the Imagination and the Pen”: A Talk with Mostofa Kamal
Novelist Mostofa Kamla was born in the village of Andharmanik under Barisal district on 30 May 1970. He started his career as a
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
The College Professor
My cousin Nirmalya was born and brought up in Delhi. He would visit us in Kolkata occasionally while visiting his ancestral home and
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
Autumn leaves are seasoned
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
The Last Burger
A brown, robust dog looks on anxiously while sitting at a busy intersection of the city. The male dog has chosen a dark and safe place
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Touring the Land of the Lake Poets
The picturesque mountainous area in the north-west part of England, commonly known as the Lake District, is a top favorite tourist
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Freedom Fighter
Ever-undaunted, I am heading forward, ignoring all obstacles,
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Melancholy Medicine
60 mg of Prozac
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Sodium: (Na)mesake
Have you seen my City?
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Cricket and Visions
On March 18th, a poet named John was hit in the eye and knocked out by a ball while playing an informal game of cricket. Perhaps
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Not Like This
The wise their moments spare will spend
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Independence, how this word became ours
With the excitement of waiting for a poem to be composed
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Charon’s Obol
“Mukti?” The word was a tremor of butterfly wings.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Hits a Century
Thanks to Google I have, at a click of the mouse, discovered that in our time around 165 members of the literary professions have
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The 1971 we don’t talk about
According to estimations, around 200,000-400,000 women were tortured and raped by the Pakistani Military and their collaborators
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Olden Times of 2019
Cowsar sat there, looking outside his garden at the Red Planet's artificial-earthen beauty. The red earth looked surprisingly pretty in the blinding light of the sun.
20 March 2019, 18:00 PM
A Writer's Enigma
I cannot write. For a month, it lingers. Every morning, I sit in front of my laptop and hope to write something new, something noble. But nothing comes out. Not a word, not a sentence. As if the sea of creativity has dried up.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Chawk Bazar, 2019
The fire of Muspelheim rages
In the dark alleys where for ages
Ancient arts of beauty have been stockpiled
By the masters of money and mind.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Name of the Beloved
Tell me, Bell,
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
From Gitabitan
What made you leave hesitatingly at twilight?
What made you falter at the threshold and look back?
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM