I have been standing at the dressing table for the past three hours. All set. But wait, am I imagining the dark patches under my eyes? It would not do, it would not do at […]
December stirs memories for Joyeeta. Memories that wrap her with the flickering, swirling, venomous tongue of an unerasable past. She hates it. She has been hating it since her childhood. She hates Eliot even more; […]
A Tryst with the River Padma? The Padma is not what it used to be. The people of the Padma banks nowadays whisper this among themselves. This perception has been stirring their minds for […]
I. Cats are to be hated. And their whining, which some might lovingly define as meowing, is nothing but tiresome whimpering. At least that was what my mother said she—not my mother—my cat—did. “Why did […]
(Inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Arrow and the Song) The time was dusk. The play of colours was not less captivating than any other day. The reddish tint in the sky did not catch […]
‘Mermaids.’ Is that what those humans decided to call me? With their fantastical theories of jubilant, multicolored tails and indescribable beauty to match their benevolence—I could not help scoffing at their rather unimaginative imagination. Where […]
(After Fayeza Hasanat’s “The Anomalous wife”) I say, Shomudra, I am here. I’ve escaped all who would keep me to sink into your embrace. Take me home. Shamudra says, I say, I am […]
—-One—- In the farthest end of the horizon across the river by the edge of a forest surrounding the dark hills sat a cottage made of dried palm leaves and rattan sticks in which lived […]
A long time ago, I fashioned a sweet little home at 10 Abbot St. in a cosy suburb called New Farm in Brisbane City. Rented though, it became my home pretty soon. It is still […]
When Subornolota Chowdhury finally defrosted the block of ilish without dipping the packet in warm water to preserve the trace of the fish’s original taste, the sets of amber LED street lights gave the day […]
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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