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;
A perennial philosophy: Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Jungle Nama’
Amitav Ghosh’s passionate engagement with the Sundarbans has brought out his best as a socially conscious fashioner of narrative in The Hungry Tide (HarperCollins, 2004) and Gun Island (John Murray...
Coevolution, not evolution
Yes, you have no reason to trust me: I am not your elder, I am not from your tribe;
On tears and taxidermy
the first time i saw a tiger was in someone’s house all tall and lifeless; yet a tiger --
Love and feminism in the world of tech
Earlier this week, in a break from work-related correspondence, I sent author Tahmima Anam a personal email. I told her I was writing to her “as a reader” this time, because after months of...
An essential read on knowledge management
The book, Knowledge Management, Governance and Sustainable Development: Lessons and Insights from Developing Countries (Routledge, 2020), edited by M Aslam Alam, Fakrul Alam, and Dilara Begum, is...