Palash petals blaze the blithe sky sweet air slurps the lawn Marks of his teeth on her nocturnal lips summon a festive dawn Pigeons coo from cornice and roof peacocks in patio dance A good […]
In mum’s eyes my habit of dipping the biscuit in tea is a chronic dysfunction that years couldn’t mend Like people blocking the overbridge in hour of office rush she withdraws to her puja room. […]
Have you ever wondered which word weighs you down the most? No, it’s not failure, not refusal, not even death or dying for they all can be ‘freedoming’. The word that hunches you down is: […]
Certainly the saints are right that Grace comes unsought without a cause. Certainly the seers are right that Karuna arrives down pathless ways to touch you. But the radiance returning to a scorched shrivelled face […]
Original: “Masterdar Hathghari” by Shamsur Rahaman Did you ever wear a wristwatch, Masterda? This question haunted me often, I know a great deal about you. Your build, the precious gem-like lustre in your eyes, your […]
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you Were to live for ever.” M. K. Gandhi If I learn that I may die tomorrow, I am sure that once the shock […]
What’s in your beautiful mind? What’s in your raining eyes? I turn back to look at. But you keep going far away, And I get lost in the dense fog of winter. Will I hear […]
Original: Biswanath Gorai, May 2021 The father’s solitary corpse left unattended; I wonder where the son has disappeared The lonely, friendless old man … Left by the roadside where only street dogs keep vigil Their […]
Original: Biswanath Gorai, May 2021 The days and nights Are no longer just so now. They are transformed Into lamentations heard at hospitals Or are metamorphosed into those innumerable corpses floating on the Ganges with […]
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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