Kaiser Haq

Kaiser Haq

Kaiser Haq is a Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic.

Remembering freedom fighter Lt. Col. Quazi Nooruzzaman, B.U. (declined)

Every year around this time, I get a phone call from someone or the other of the loose fraternity of Sector 7 veterans to remind me that May 6 is Lieutenant Colonel Quazi Nooruzzaman's death anniversary; he passed away in 2011.
MY USELESS WEAPON

As Bird flocks take wing at the rattle of sten guns
SIX SHARED SEASONS

Let us say you dream of a woman,
After the holocaust: Partition and Bangladeshi literature

The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 has become indissolubly linked to horrific, haunting images of armed gangs or mobs attacking helpless groups of men, women and children trying to cross a border that had just been scratched on the map. Literature registers the shock in works that make harrowing reading.
Ms Bunny Sen

been buggering around this goddamn city