Set within and on the outskirts of Dhaka City, Like A Diamond In The Sky (Shazia Omar, Penguin 2009), is a novel that addresses the alienation of Bangladeshi youth through the struggles of a 21 year old drug addict, Deen, and his 'khor' friends.

The traveller walks on, singing as if undone,

‘Shaggy rags carpet the sky with tiny pores for rays to penetrate,

The outcome of the referendum seems certain to divorce us from the European Union. But Britain itself has already been internally fractured by an angry campaign full of dishonest threats and promises. The leading promoters of Brexit were mainly responsible.

Whether it's a page or screen devoid of words, writer's block can get crippling. Most of us know “advice” such as taking a walk, having coffee, changing writing tool or going on vacation, is hardly helpful.

See, such a beautiful sparrow is

It was midnight. The man was lying dead; his head had hit the edge of the sidewalk and then cracked open, the blood was slowly but

At last, I came back.

Lured by the countless “Addicted to the smell of books” posts and photos of stacks for summer reading, I decided that perhaps it might not be a terrible idea to revert back to paperbacks and hardcover books.

Not to embrace.

You are oblivious of the ache in your own heart...

Work and hope: the salt and sugar of life. Our future is built on the foundation of these two elements. Grandma is reminded of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, from which

Is this the world whose soil gave away for long

To catch the last train, I've kind of run all the way to the station and glimpsed

The white woman and her husband fell into silence again. About a while ago the train was heading east, and now,

The heron had dreams in her wings

The traffic signal turned red. I was in the front seat. My nephew, Ron was driving towards home, thoughtful as he looked straight

The sargam falls silent

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

My East Bengal, how astonishingly she is