Star Literature
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.
That Christmas Eve, Santa did not come home
December 24 had always been one of the most awaited days of the year for us. The grand birthday cake for Jesus' birthday, the roasted sausages and meatloaves, and finally, a house-favourite, narrating the story of the Three Wise Men–that is how I had spent Christmas Eve for as long as I could remember.
Catch spooky horror tales this winter!
Catch more ghost stories like this from the winners of 'Winter Night Ghost Stories' competition all throughout winter, every weekend, here.
Leaf
I saw a leaf falling yesterday. The wind took the leaf on its back then disappeared.
Matsyanayam
Luna strode then to the river’s bank, her loose-fitting blouse and petticoat flapping in the breeze that had speedily arrived. Her nupur, fashioned from mollusk shells, sounded in the wind like wind chimes, and more so when she moved.
On Literary Matters: Cultural Representation through Translation
The 5th session of "Literary Matters" focuses on literary translation in Bangladesh.
Remembering Syed Shamsul Haq
On the occasion of the sixth death anniversary of Syed Shamsul Haq, Sabiha Huq writes on the versatile writer.
Home in the World: The Autobiography of a Well-Known Bengali
The dust jacket cover of Amartya Sen’s absorbing and remarkable memoir shows him as a young boy, with his sister and a cousin at home, looking out at the world. An apt cover image of a fittingly titled book about someone who would be always taking in the world as he went all over