Salman Rushdie had to cancel his Jaipur Lit Fest trip. But he did make it to Delhi at the invitation of India Today Conclave in March 2012. But alas! Imran Khan cancelled his trip this time as he wasn’t willing to share the same platform of Liberty Verses with Salman Rushdie, a man who had …
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I. Ophelia Mansion There is a girl in our apartment block; she was ‘plucked’ from the streets by the family of a Jawj Sahib. Her age is hardly written in her face, and with each passing year she remains the same height. Until two years ago, we would only come to Bangladesh to visit. During …
আবার নালন্দা শামীম রেজা অমরত্বেরও মৃত্যু হবে নালন্দা, জোছনার জলজ-অন্ধকারে। সোমরস পান করে ঈশ্বর নামছেন সোমেশ্বরী জলে আমি দশমাস আরাধনায় জাইগা থাকবো সোমপুরে, সোমেশ্বরী থেকে দূরে; তুমি আসবে তন্দ্রায়, চন্দ্রা নদীর ওপারে; আমি ঘুম-মন্দিরায় সুর তুলবো বাকি কয়মাস টেরাকোটার শিল্পিত খোদাইয়ের মাঝে। পোষ না-মানা পড়শি-সকাল ঝুইলা থাকবে পাকুড়-শাখায় আমারও ইচ্ছে হীরক-লকেট হয়া ঝুইলা …
Ben Roberts, president of the World Science Congress, had just called. He congratulated Dr Rizvi Khan of Bangladesh on his success. A video conference has been scheduled for this evening. All the TV channels in home and abroad have prepared to telecast this program live. Some Nobel laureates have also congratulated Dr Rizvi by emails. …
Cartoonist Mr. Mehedi printed in 2008
Having spent the first decade of our lives in the Middle East, my sister and I grew up listening to stories of home, the historical and cultural significance of our land- of love for language, of songs of freedom, of beauty of the rivers, of people’s power and of revolution. It was our parent’s way …
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Peeling the Onion ‘Onions make me cry.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I meant what I just said – “onions make me cry”.’ ‘Oh you are so prosaic.’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I meant what I just said – “you are prosaic”.’ ‘Prose-ike! Well, there is no poetry in onion for sure!’ ‘On the contrary, onion …
Ngugi’s ‘s Globalectics is a pleasure to read through. The writer had officially called for the abolition of the English department right after he joined University of Nairobi. He thought English did not deserve to be privileged as that only “reinforced the view that Europe was the center of the universe.” Ngugi has called for …
