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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
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
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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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Drone strikes and authorial intentions
I saw Eye in the Sky the afternoon it opened in London. I went with few preconceptions, knowing only that it was about drones and
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Rising to the Surface
Readers of this paper may have seen a “short story” entitled “The Rising of the Dead”, which appeared on April 23, 2016. Presented as a work of fiction...
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Two Poems by Ahsan Habib
At last, I built a home on the ash-stacks of fallen leaves,
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
The Wedding Ring
The Pakistanis were beaten at last. The flag of Bangladesh flew over the independent country. We all returned celebrating victory.
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Introduction
May this afternoon's feeble shadows fall upon all the heady lines of my poetry, or may heaps of dry leaves blaze up in flames beside them
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Of Things
Things are material in the hardest sense of the term. Things have shapes, textures, structures, and even timbres. Things have tones,
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM
New In Nagaland
The war that changed India and the world had one of its history-changing battles take place in the sprawling hills of Kohima. Across
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Murakami's Kafka on the Shore
When Kafka Tamura runs away from his Tokyo house the day he turns fifteen to escape a strange curse his father set upon him, little does he know his life will end up with so many twists and turns.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Long To Belong
She walks the walk of her steps
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
NEW IN NAGALAND
Once upon a time, there were head-hunters. Only presence we found in April 2016 were two skulls perched on bamboo shafts on
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Bones of Grace
Tahmima Anam concludes her Bengal trilogy with a novel that, in recounting the story of a love across continents and ethnic lines,
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Spy who Lives on
It was the summer of 1965. A tall, young man with dark shades in his early 30s got on his motorbike and embarked on a long arduous journey of over 350 kilometers starting from Dhaka and finally arrived at Kaptai...
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi worker who published book started by scribbling on cement bags
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.
23 May 2016, 08:53 AM
Nurjahan Begum laid to rest
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.
23 May 2016, 05:10 AM
Translated from the Bengali: SM Shahrukh
Hunger engulfs me: In my belly, the feeling
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Wedding Ring
Sonargaon Hotel had not started then in Dhaka. The Shahbagh Hotel was turned into Institute of Post Graduate Medicine. The elite
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Reading Bellow in Chicago
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.
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Mor Bhabonere Ki Haowa
What wind is it lilting my thoughts so amazingly?
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Enigma of Articles
Language mold me, Its structure and form bind me
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
BEFORE THE CITY IS DESTROYED
If the city is razed to the ground, the last clock stopped ticking...
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM