The Daily Star Hay Festival Dhaka-2014 Supplement
HEY, HAY! / HEY, HAY!
Hay Fever / Hay Fever
Down the back alleys of remembrance
Accompanied on stage by acclaimed writers Syed Manzoorul Islam, A Qayyum Khan and Kaiser Huq, the launching of Shahzaman Mozumder's new memorandum on 1971, “The Guerrilla”, by Daily Star Books took place in front of a brimming and absorbed crowd composed of literary enthusiasts and history buffs.
Overheard at Hay
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10y ago
One Love
Last night I dreamt
oh what marvelous error..
that today I would live,
so today my spirit is in a place of giving and receiving,
receiving and giving in order for a universe to return to its origin..
So this day I pray not for salvation but for patience and love and forgiveness in order to heal.
Cause the day of saving is past done.
God is not returning because God is already here.
Ghazal: of Ghazals
Ah sweetheart, you have sent me a book of ghazals.
You have sent me a bough and a brook of ghazals.
I have even become tears to live
in your eyes. Let me live in their look of ghazals.
Shahid is dead, great poets dying,
but the death of love hangs on the hook of ghazals.
May the rarest editions of love
bring us both to a shop with a nook of ghazals.
If love's too dear, Mimi, then wander,
penniless, in a long empty souk of ghazals.
Lit fest begins
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Lit fest begins
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‘Britain didn't conquer India’
“Britain didn't conquer India…East India Company did. The company, which was only answerable to shareholders, unleashed a beast on the world. Ten years after the Battle of Plassey, the company was being run by 35 people in London,” British historian and writer William Dalrymple told The Daily Star yesterday. The noted historian is in town to attend the Hay Festival Dhaka 2014.
Lessons from the Slush Pile
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