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POETRY / Our Bangla
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THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
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Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
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Literature
POETRY / Be a tree
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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
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ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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Traversing Cohen
I want to write a letter to a woman from a time now past.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Overseasoned
Digging his grave in a mine,
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Tales of Everlasting Endearment
Women and children in masterly works of fiction tend to be endearing. From Bengal to Russia, the endearment lasts a lifetime;
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
MADE IN AMERICA!
Though times have changed, in the several visits I made to the US over the last twenty years, one headache has remained constant –
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Portrait of the poet as young woman
Her hair
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Nineteen Thirty-Four
A motorcar
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Religion, Diaspora and the Politics of a Homing Desire
Let me dedicate my inaugural musing in this page to the writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora spread all over the world; after all, I
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Tagore’s memories with Nagor
From 1891-1901 Tagore was continuously in Bengal. He used to come in Naogaon’s Patisar to observe the estate’s condition till 1937. His grandfather Prince Dwarkanath Tagore bought this estate in 1830. Actually to look after that estate Tagore came to Patisar in 1891.
8 May 2017, 06:26 AM
Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum
This remarkable book records a unique feat. In sequenced essays, its many contributors led by their mastermind...
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath and the Question of Nationalism
To read Rabindranath Tagore's lectures on Nationalism delivered in 1916 in Japan and in America is to feel that he positively detested it.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Visva-Bharati: A Civil Public Space for All Ages
All of us are products of our times – but while most of us are carried on time's shoulders only a few are able to carry time on theirs.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
My Tent of Hymns
Our house rules required us siblings to sit before our father every morning for a session on the literary classics.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Living and dying by the code
“How many governments have fallen,” the prince had gone on, “And how many kingdoms have been swept from the face of the earth, and Orosh is still standing.”
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
A Prisoner of Memories
I do not really know. I never really thought I would or could write. The first piece I wrote was of course some old Grimm Brothers' fairy
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM
In Her Blue
A copper coloured dog bit her
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Memories Are
Dazzling diamond,
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM
“Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness”
Sylvia Plath indeed died memorably as foreshadowed in a poem written in the final months of her life.
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM
The legacy of Kangal Harinath
A teacher of a small village was so overwhelmed by the atrocities of the landowners or zamindars of colonial India that he decided to write something in protest. A former employee of a British-owned indigo production factory, he was a first-hand witness of the cruelties against the workers who gave their sweat and blood to only be further exploited by the zamindars and the British Raj.
16 April 2017, 09:38 AM
Kafka in the age of the internet
“I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Nature
Not by rules
7 April 2017, 18:00 PM