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Syed Abul Fatah Sharfuddin Sharaf Al Hussaini: A forgotten poet

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A Woman of Substance

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Anindita Ghose's 'The Illuminated': Can widowhood be freeing?

Fiction & Poetry

Shelley Parker-Chan’s 'She Who Became The Sun': A song of identity and fate

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Lines from Fuller Road

Fiction & Poetry

Tarana Husain Khan's 'The Begum and the Dastan': Patriarchy is a labyrinth that defies time

Fiction & Poetry

The Burnt Forest

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Aegri Somnia

Fiction & Poetry

They Took Away My Land

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Ahsan Habib’s On the First-floor Landing: a Duologue

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Gone in the Morn

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Pooris, Drones and Withered Dragons

"I want to propose a deal with the Bazar."

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Stars Shaped Like Your Hand

I see it in the words, Where your hand dragged over the wet ink.

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Dorothy in Wonderland

For wounded soldiers rarely feel, Of throbbing hearts and broken skin.

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Greed

Not even the asters accepting your gaze.

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Amour Fictif

Incontestable.

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The Midwife

I would remember a face like this if I had seen it around.

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Paper Drifters

I am a photo of a person, printed in black and white, in a newspaper.

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Your Sound

The sound of your voice is a song.

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Shantinagar

Where could they live happily for the rest of their childhood?

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Fiction & Poetry

To Love A Country

To love a country as if you’ve lost one  Is to feel the freezing sun on your body Form icicles on your cheeks as you train your feet To dance hopscotch on rough asphalt;