Chhabed Sathee: Expatriate freedom fighter and journalist Harun Chowdhury has been living in Virginia for a long time. He is simultaneously a writer, journalist and poet. Born in Dhaka in …
Literature
The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-black blue robe – unabashedly studded with thousands and thousands …
It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali or Song Offerings by the renowned Irish poet William Butler Yeats. But many admirers …
None can fathom her beauty in younger days if they hadn’t seen her wrapped tight in her teens in jaba-printed salwar kameez. There goes Her Majesty, passersby would purr, eyeing …
The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on— Another birthday coursing Towards the day of death. Seated on his movable stand At the border of minuscule births and deaths …
O herald of the new, Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again. Reveal yourself from the midst of a mist-filled sky Like the sun. Burst through the …
Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened to the public in 2011 …