– Atika Ulfat Shetu- The first light of dawn has yet to be visible. The sky is still wrapped in a soft dark haze, but the fire in the clay
-Zakir Kibria- The boat lies on its side like the skeleton of some beached leviathan, its wooden ribs bleached grey by the sun, which no longer finds clouds to hide
Towheed Feroze Back in 1966, a year just after the brief and inconclusive Indo-Pak war, the literary scene of the then East Pakistan was rocked by a new kind of
—Kaniz Kakon— Uprising make noise. Bureaucracies make decisions. Bangladesh has recently experienced both, and it is the second that now deserves attention. The upheaval of 2024 was loud, moral and
—Mahfuzur Rahman— The 13th National Assembly elections and the formation of a new government have brought apparent social stability to Bangladesh. As I had assumed, this election has created a
—Joya Mahbub— We are obsessed with having everything “now”. We want our ‘downloading’ to be completed in seconds, our lunch in minutes, and we want to express our opinions in