Original: Syed Manzoorul Islam Translation: Himadri Lahiri [English translation of the chapter titled “Shilper Sundor O Asundor” from Syed Manzoorul Islam’s Bengali book Nandantattwa] In art, one encounters expressions of both beauty and ugliness. It […]
Original Story: “Agun” Syed Manzoorul Islam Translation: Debottama Ghosh 1 Nobody can keep track of time when they are out on the streets of Dhaka these days. People have left it to fate. There’s impossible […]
There was the quality of spring in him. In his eyes, in the smile he exuded everywhere, in the statements he made on different occasions at various points in time, it was spring, an abundance […]
Syed Manzoorul Islam’s Absurd Night is an interesting study on how magic realism works in a different country far away from Marquez’s: Bangladesh. Pushpita Alam translated it from Bengali. It is about a severed hand […]
Original: Syed Manzoorul Islam Translation: Srideep Mukherjee 1 Bakul Farazi did have a longish full name, but that eludes my memory at this point in time. What I certainly remember, however, is that Bakul’s inordinately […]
Original: Syed Manzoorul Islam Translation: Somdatta Mandal [This short story is taken from the collection Sukhdukkher Golpo (Dhaka: Nymphea Publications) containing twenty stories that Manzoorul Islam wrote between 2005 and 2010. They are about […]
We are greatly indebted to Abu Kalam Shamsuddin for the logo, cover image and theme paintings of the magazine.
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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