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'Relief': Sehri Tales selections, Day 6

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 6 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Relief

10h ago

'Baffle': Sehri Tales selections, Day 6

'Baffle': Sehri Tales selections, Day 6

1d ago

'Deny': Sehri Tales selections, Day 5

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 5 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Deny

2d ago

'Promise': Sehri Tales selections, Day 4

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 4 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Promise

3d ago

FICTION / The loss of essentiality

Umar stood in line with all the patience in the world. He could smell the anxiety and fear in the air. The room was filled with people once glorifying death and taking pride in solitude, now filled with panic in the face of reality.

3d ago

POETRY / There’s no way you’ll outrun a bear

Smoother violence fills our hearts like charming splinters. The irony is I am the first of my women

3d ago

POETRY / Be a tree

Be a tree Get wet in sorrow’s shower and you’ll recover. From envy’s scorching sun gather strength

3d ago

'Watermelon': Sehri Tales selections, Day 3

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 3 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Watermelon.

4d ago

'Rescue': Sehri Tales selections, Day 2

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 2 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Rescue

‘Ignite’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 1

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 1 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Ignite.

FICTION / Nearness

How do you think I feel every time I find you hovering over the door to my classroom? Like when you’re the only passenger riding up a lift, and then it suddenly stops.

Animality

TRIGGER WARNING: animal brutality

2w ago

Never to a full stop

You muttered, “Full Stop,”  I echoed, “Rest in Peace,” 

2w ago

Qahr

Let me tell you about Qahr.  A word not in my mother tongue, 

2w ago

A journey through you

I took a lonely stroll  on the hollows of your cheeks

2w ago

Baby killed/baby found dead: On the use and abuse of language

To the politicians and their vetoes and dismissals of any proposals that might bring some change—what language do you use with them? What of their language that otherises an entire people to dehumanise them?

2w ago

Tongue

I heard myself speak today It made me want to Cut out my tongue.

3w ago

Bangalis and the “cutification” of English

On a single visit to the Chadni Chowk gully at the Gawsia/New Market area, I had witnessed, store by store, the gradual devolvement of the name for Mysore cotton to Maisha cotton.

3w 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.

3w ago

“Dostoevsky” by Ahmed Sofa

A translation of Ahmed Sofa's essay on Dostoyevsky

3w ago

Of moms and balcony gardens

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a mom in Dhaka must be in want of a balcony-garden

4w ago
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