POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
28 November 2025, 19:31 PM
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LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025, 19:30 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69
19 November 2025, 10:28 AM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / A visit before the journey
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
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FICTION / The dawn’s return
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM
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Poetry / Silence, our witness
22 August 2025, 19:02 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Space between the scrolls
15 August 2025, 19:00 PM
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FICTION / Give back the forests, take away this city
8 August 2025, 19:12 PM
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Diasporic delusions
Self-confidence shaken, some shattered memories in their side bags
24 November 2023, 18:00 PM
Of faith: Mother and memories
Back in 2006 at the age of 11, I was introduced to faith, in the most domestic way possible.
24 November 2023, 18:00 PM
They came out at sunset
The deeper the night, the louder the sound.
22 November 2023, 12:23 PM
Rapture
“Rapture’s coming, son. We best be happy when we embrace the Lord,” was all I heard him say as he pushed a needle into my arm.
21 November 2023, 11:40 AM
Game
My mother took me on her horse and started to ride south. I clutched my bleeding arm, the pain snapping me fully awake.
20 November 2023, 11:12 AM
The cabin
If you're Red-marked, you may be forever scarred.
19 November 2023, 14:08 PM
My scarlet incarnation
Being a woman comes to me naturally
If not me, then who?
I was never asked to be one
I was never asked to cook
17 November 2023, 18:00 PM
The Black Cat
This is a translation by Md. Abu Zafor of Bimal Guha’s “Kalo Biral” from the collection ‘E Kon Matal Nritya' (first published in 2022).
12 November 2023, 15:55 PM
Sindbad
Time to set sail for a new cruise, oh dear voyager Sindbad!
11 November 2023, 15:55 PM
Small dreams
On the heart of a place where heather blossoms,
Dreams of scattered bodies and burnt heath
Against the walls where children live
10 November 2023, 18:00 PM
A pressed flower
Pressed between pages
Of a heavy book, a rose-–
Neither flourishes nor wilts.
10 November 2023, 18:00 PM
How to write a love song
500 years ago, Edmund Spenser wrote a poem to celebrate a wedding taking place beside the River Thames. Each stanza ends with the refrain: “Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song”.
10 November 2023, 18:00 PM
The odyssey of a man
A story of an ordinary man and his very ordinary journey.
4 November 2023, 15:55 PM
My Son’s Shoes
Time, heavy as a thousand suns combined,/ Bends mothers, smaller than the ones they bore,
3 November 2023, 18:00 PM
On Remembering Edward Said
The occupation of Gaza and West Bank changed Said's personal and academic prerogatives, compelling him to lend his voice to the Palestinian liberation movement.
3 November 2023, 18:00 PM
Bombardment
What’s life if a sense of darkness/ doesn’t connect night to sunlight
1 November 2023, 13:55 PM
1 new message
'1 new message' is the top winner of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween writing contest Spook-off in the two-sentence fiction category.
31 October 2023, 16:15 PM
New home
'New home' is the top winner of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween writing contest Spook-off in the 100 word fiction category.
31 October 2023, 16:00 PM
The car
'The car' is one of the winning entries of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween themed writing contest "Spook-Off". One winning 100-word flash fiction or a two-line horror story will be published each day of the week all the way till Halloween.
30 October 2023, 16:00 PM
Last visit
'Last visit' is one of the winning entries of DS Books and Star Literature's Halloween themed writing contest "Spook-Off". One winning 100-word flash fiction or a two-line horror story will be published each day of the week all the way till Halloween.
29 October 2023, 16:00 PM