Star Literature

FICTION / 24 hours, granted

I spent the whole day running on the roads near Ramna park. Riding a bicycle alone through the narrow alleys of Mohammadpur without the fear of anyone jumping out at me from the corners.

MEMOIR / My father’s temper, moral conduct and my extended family

'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first sixteen years of Sultana Nahar's life. "Mercolized Wax" is the second chapter in the book.

POETRY / Mothers of the earth

Come, if you may, with swords or guns. Remember, I won’t cry and run; I will rise from the depths of the land.

FICTION / La Marionette

She wakes up suddenly from her unnatural beeline posture, slowly and ever so gently, like a chained demon would after just hours of calculated slumber. I never look.

POETRY / Dhaka (2007-)

I was nine years of age the first time I set eyes on a Dhaka street. I received my first welcome from a group of beggars tapping on my car window.

MEMOIR / ‘It feels like a living thing’: The House on RK Mission Road

When I think of the thick limestone walls of the house now I think of the essence of the generations of our family that it has absorbed.

CREATIVE NONFICTION / In Ireland once: A story of ghosts

Are ghosts real? This was the question Mollie, a little 8-year-old girl who lives at the end of our street asked me in a–real–letter she wrote me recently. I had apparently included a book of ghost stories in a bag of books I had given her.

POETRY / Placing Places

Someday, I will write about those places, the cities, monuments, and faces.

POETRY / Love won’t you love me

Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh make me all that I don't wish to be.

March 11, 2023
March 11, 2023

24 hours, granted

I spent the whole day running on the roads near Ramna park. Riding a bicycle alone through the narrow alleys of Mohammadpur without the fear of anyone jumping out at me from the corners.

February 19, 2023
February 19, 2023

My father’s temper, moral conduct and my extended family

'In Extreme Need of Guidance', the book being serialised here, captures the first sixteen years of Sultana Nahar's life. "Mercolized Wax" is the second chapter in the book.

February 18, 2023
February 18, 2023

Mothers of the earth

Come, if you may, with swords or guns. Remember, I won’t cry and run; I will rise from the depths of the land.

February 18, 2023
February 18, 2023

La Marionette

She wakes up suddenly from her unnatural beeline posture, slowly and ever so gently, like a chained demon would after just hours of calculated slumber. I never look.

February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023

Dhaka (2007-)

I was nine years of age the first time I set eyes on a Dhaka street. I received my first welcome from a group of beggars tapping on my car window.

February 4, 2023
February 4, 2023

‘It feels like a living thing’: The House on RK Mission Road

When I think of the thick limestone walls of the house now I think of the essence of the generations of our family that it has absorbed.

February 4, 2023
February 4, 2023

In Ireland once: A story of ghosts

Are ghosts real? This was the question Mollie, a little 8-year-old girl who lives at the end of our street asked me in a–real–letter she wrote me recently. I had apparently included a book of ghost stories in a bag of books I had given her.

January 28, 2023
January 28, 2023

Love won’t you love me

Break me into numbers and spirals, and blood and flesh make me all that I don't wish to be.

January 28, 2023
January 28, 2023

Placing Places

Someday, I will write about those places, the cities, monuments, and faces.

January 20, 2023
January 20, 2023

Fail better: A new year’s resolution

But I understand. I am part of a historic pattern. So not everything is personal. I can't help but fall into some of the traps and become prey to some of the vultures.