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Two Idiots in Dhaka
That building over there—that is the High Court!
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Dhaka Landing
Dhaka was still slumbering. The sun was yet to come up, and the silence spread over the pitched road was yet to be swallowed by the
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
From Dhaka and Dirty Dialectics:
But, Dhaka, I hear your sepoy in the attic say, as he fashions his life after the size and shape of a solitude more tenacious than my
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Ms Bunny Sen
been buggering around this goddamn city
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
City Beloved
Humayun Ahmed's Tomader Ei Nagar-e projects Dhaka--our beloved city!--with all her beauties, flaws, eccentricities, and mysteries
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Tears of Unmet Love
Once upon a decade, a lost soul had fallen in love with the flaws of another one. He saw beauty in the eccentricity of her grey skin,
28 July 2017, 18:26 PM
Beyond the Shadows of Life
She kept on walking.
28 July 2017, 18:23 PM
Coleridge: Stories of Betrayal, Pain and Misunderstanding
Sometime in 1797 something magical happened in English literature. Two poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge by
28 July 2017, 18:18 PM
Sense of Poetic Essence
The sublime use of language can be best met in poetry which holds an intrinsic kinship with aesthetics. Poets play with words
28 July 2017, 18:17 PM
21st Century High Politics in the Indo-Pacific and the Bay of Bengal
A post-cold war international economic and political order is still unfolding and has been witnessing concerted attempts by traditional
28 July 2017, 18:06 PM
The Lights of Love
The universe has a way of tossing us into the winds of time
28 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Jane Austen's words, in numbers
Jane Austen is seeing something of a revival, if that can be said of an eternally popular writer, this year.
27 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Becoming a Janeite
I cannot exactly pinpoint the first time I read Austen. Back in high school? Or in one of my earlier semester breaks as an undergrad?
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Romancing a Royal Favour: The Dedication Page of Emma
Of the six novels written by Jane Austen, Emma is the only one to include a dedication page. It reads, "To His Royal Highness, The
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Austenland Revisited
I advance towards the bookshelf, a pleasurable hum of anticipation running through me – today is that most rare of opportunities: an
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Quotes on Austen
You could not shock her more than she shocks me,
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Dream within a Dream
Imagine a world where you are the creator and the decider. And where you are the king in a kingdom of critters. It's a dream land, of
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Doves and Dogs of War
Wars, great and small, have been a part of recorded human history. Given the varied elements that go toward the making of
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A walk in the wake of destruction
In all likelihood these [the rings] are fragments of a former moon that was too close to the planet and was destroyed by its [Saturn's] tidal effect...
20 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Benimadhob
Benimadhob!My darling Benimadhob!
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM