Miracles do happen, Like that one night, when the baby slept without itchy discomfort, Sadly, his default state. Tough fight, every night. Lotion on thin skin broken barrier, prickly paining… cuddles and comfort, massage to calmness, leaving his Ma exhausted. Little angel tries walking, standing for some seconds laughter, joy and fun…. and misery, too …
Independence Award, Ekushey Padak-winning writer and long-time friend of Monsoonletters Selina Hossain has been appointed as the president of Bangla Academy for a three-year term. The public administration ministry issued a gazette notification to the effect on Thursday. The eminent writer has authored 41 novels, 36 juvenile books, 15 short stories and 13 essays. Selina …
ঘর টানে না, বাইরে এলাম। বাহিরে ঝড়-বাদল মৃত্যু উস্কে দিচ্ছে যাবতীয় স্মৃতিও-তো সুঁই এর মতো বিঁধছে সারা গায়ে। যেমন: স্নানের জল, তোয়ালে-সাবান-শ্যাম্পু হাতে দাঁড়িয়ে থাকা নারী যেমন: গন্তব্যহীন ক্লান্ত ক’জন দূরের পথচারী কেউ নিজের ছায়া হারিয়ে ফের নিজের পিছেই ঘুরছে কারো কোন ঠিকানা নেই, ঠিক জানা নেই কার কতটা পুড়ছে? শেকড় শুধু আগলে রাখে বৃক্ষ, …
I woke up on a lousy Tuesday morning, Waiting to be apprenticed to some hideous misjudgment, The car ran off with its moneyed roof. I came upon new music, meanwhile, All of it played like old broken records, All of it played for hours, uninterrupted Who would come between us on this blue day? I …
Dazzling debuts, a word-of-mouth hit, plus this year’s bestsellers from Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Kazuo Ishiguro and more The most anticipated, discussed and accessorised novel of the year was Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber), launched on a tide of tote bags and bucket hats. It’s a book about the accommodations of adulthood, …
No black, no white, Everything is grey in your mystic world; You did not teach binaries to me I could become a human being In your androgynous world. I remember a Bengali As I think of you who Worships motherhood; I was your headdress Your second mother. You would treat me as if I’m the …
Scholar Molly Yarn identifies more than 60 women who have contributed to the history of the Bard’s works, and believes there are still more to find William Shakespeare Reviewing Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke’s illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s plays in 1869, an anonymous critic blamed “the numberless alterations, mutilations, corruptions, or whatever we may choose …
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Me and my two siblings met at the new mall, all newish shoes, clean underwear, someone else cuts our hair. We made it out, we made out, where the mountains aren’t. Where a bookstore can keep her nose above water. Success in the U.S. of A.. Thursday, a drizzling rain, a booth in a dark …
This dawn Is a lukewarm body of sunlit promises O honey, it’s a pale diffusing Of crisp honey rays The sun pours out of a hundred windows Sweeping the air lightly like a sigh Sighing life into the swirling canvas of dust motes Sighing life into the dust that composes this body Your body and …
People are now in love with Fairness, Fairness that is now sold in packets – pretty and environment Friendly, That can be easily recycled; So can be our relationships Nowadays, I hear; And you can even choose from your look, If you care (to look) That’s to say; But what’s the hurry? Time is a …
