• Art and Poetry Makes Singing in Dark Times More Relevant

    The poet may be the priest of the invisible if we are to concur with Wallace Stevens. When art and poetry intersect, the invisible suddenly turns into the visible truth and this visible art is the skein that keeps the freedom of expression

  • The Vanishing American Adult

    Benjamin Eric Sasse aka Ben Sasse is a freshman Republican Senator from Nebraska. A doctorate in American History from Yale, Sasse was named President of Midwestern University, Freemont Nebraska in 2010.

  • DLF DIARIES

    I wrote this for you, Mamma—for being insufferable on Day 1,

  • ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM WINS THE DSC PRIZE FOR 2017

    Anuk Arudpragasam has been announced the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage at the Dhaka Lit on the 18th November, 2017.

  • The Idea of Order in Bangladesh

    I don't mean law and order, in which we are woefully indigent, but artistic order, the kind created by art and literature. I mean the idea

  • 9/11 Cataclysm and Sustaining Fear

    The other day I was reading Deepa Kumar's Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire while traveling on a bus from Rajshahi to my home

  • Using Fictional Techniques to Write History

    The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple is the most engrossing book that I've read recently.

  • Poetry with Emily Dickinson

    Recently, the Fifth Amherst Poetry Festival, held in tandem with the Emily Dickinson Museum, had downtown Amherst abuzz with

  • Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute

    Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia

  • October (1927): A Historical and Visual Retromania

    Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;