CREATIVE NONFICTION / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
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Books & Literature
POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
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LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / A visit before the journey
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FICTION / The dawn’s return
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Fiction
MINDFUL MUSINGS - MELBOURNE JOURNAL
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
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM
First Song before My Second Death
Is this the world whose soil gave away for long
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The Shame of Return
To catch the last train, I've kind of run all the way to the station and glimpsed
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
West, East
The white woman and her husband fell into silence again. About a while ago the train was heading east, and now,
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The Great Burial
The heron had dreams in her wings
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Traffic Lights
The traffic signal turned red. I was in the front seat. My nephew, Ron was driving towards home, thoughtful as he looked straight
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Of Music and Passion
The sargam falls silent
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Seasons
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
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM
My East Bengal
My East Bengal, how astonishingly she is
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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
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
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
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