Can our walls make space for our dissent?
The walls of Dhaka city represent the volume and chaos of thousands of people jostling for ever-shrinking space.
3m ago
4 books I was grateful to read this year
It's true, I feel differently about books that I previously disliked or enjoyed reading and books that I want as a physical presence in my life
4m ago
Outliers take centre-stage in Shah Tazrian Ashrafi’s debut collection
It’s hard not to recall our many conversations about literature as I try to summarise Shah Tazrian Ashrafi’s debut collection of short stories. They were always short discussions, opening and closing off in spurts, as happens over text. Exclamations over a new essay collection by Zadie Smith, or a new novel by Isabel Allende.
5m ago
Rifat Munim on Bangladeshi fiction: ‘This is a diverse terrain you are going to tread on’
In the foreword, I wanted to capture how I, as a child, grew up listening to different stories: ghost stories, mythical stories from both Sanatana and Islamic religious scriptures, and fairy tales from 'Thakurmar Jhuli', compiled by Dakkhinaranjan Mitra Majumdar. It was a time when there were no boundaries for my imagination.
9m ago
The first semester is your shitty first draft
Like many veterans, I joined a creative writing MFA program because I wanted to evolve as a writer.
10m ago
A glimpse of the Istanbul we don’t know
Here was a woman who was but a dot amidst the throngs of people who watched the Bosphorus Bridge being opened in October 1973, as fireworks erupted over a Turkey that now seamed Asia to Europe.
1y ago
In conversation with South Asia’s preeminent literary agent, Kanishka Gupta
I always tell the authors to make subjective, qualitative decisions. So many of my authors say no to higher offers from publishing houses if they don’t feel comfortable with the publisher or editor.
1y ago
A bookstore is a time machine—Zeenat Book Supply through the ages
Last week, one of Dhaka’s oldest bookstores announced that they will be closing shop after running for 60 years
1y ago
May 5, 2016
One Story that Lives On
Every fandom, for each of its followers, is serious business. Having grown up with my nose buried into hijinks of the Wizarding World, Harry Potter is serious business for me.
April 28, 2016
Stories for the Summer
It's been an embarrassingly long time since I sat down to write something.
March 31, 2016
Resonance of Spoken Word
As the symphony reaches its illuminating ZENITH AND WE WILL KNOW, AND WE WILL FEEL THAT THIS MOMENT IS OURS TO LIVE FOR
March 24, 2016
EXPLAINING THE RAINBOW
Ever since an especially fascinating Science class in middle school, the pouring of rain followed by sunlight to this day makes me look...
March 10, 2016
Annoying things friends studying abroad do
We all have friends who study abroad and when they return home during their study breaks, they make the following months amusing ...
February 11, 2016
Old Book, New Cover
In a park filled with laughing families, running children and the happiest kind of sunshine...
February 4, 2016
Sparks Will Fly
The dancers were all getting ready. The boys had already reached and were busy taking pictures with the group while popping a “fuchka” every few minutes.
January 14, 2016
Never too old for Disneyland - Paris
Holidays are a time of happiness. During winter at the end of year, when the warmth of family and friends take us back to childhood, it's also a time of magic. And magic, as everyone knows, is done best by Disney.
December 17, 2015
Colour Me Stress-Free
All of us adored colouring books as kids, until we grew out of them. But a recent trend in France has brought them back to the
December 10, 2015
POST GRAD OR MARRIAGE?
Last year of college brings with it a lot of changes. You are now an almost grown up, who sort of knows what s/he wants to do with...
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