A paleolithic man crouches in the bushes, waiting for something to catch his attention. The tiniest movement kick-starts the bloodlust, that hard-wired desire to just fucking get it. He flings a projectile in its direction, an arrow or a spear maybe — weapons that create just the right amount of distance between his own body …
I have been writing children’s fiction for more than 10 years now, and still I would hesitate to define it; it is a slippery, various, quicksilver thing. But I do know, with more certainty than I usually feel about anything, what it is not: it is not exclusively for children. When I write, I write …
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Between 2005 and 2009 in an isolated Mennonite colony in Bolivia, women and girls (as young as 3) regularly woke up groggy and bruised, their sheets smeared with blood and semen. Some members of the conservative patriarchal community blamed demons; others attributed these reports to “wild female imagination.” In reality, nine men in the close-knit …
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”হ্যাপি সাকরাইন” দিয়ে এ বছর চমকে দিয়েছিল ফেসবুক কর্তৃপক্ষ। চার বন্ধু মিলে দুপুরেই চলে গিয়েছিলাম প্রথমবারের মত এই উৎসবে সামিল হতে। ওই দিন শাঁখারিবাজারে পা রাখতেও ছিল চমক। বাকাট্টা বাকাট্টা চিৎকারে ছেলে-বুড়ো সবার কেটে যাওয়া ঘুড়ি ধরার প্রতিযোগিতা সবখানে। আকাশে ঘুড়ি দোকানে ঘুড়ি, এ যেন ঘুড়ির রাজ্য। শাঁখারিবাজার তাঁতিবাজারসহ পুরান ঢাকার প্রায় সব এলাকাতেই সাকরাইন …
Eisenstein’s ‘Battleship Potemkin’ was not about 1917 but, in the film, the director unleashed upon the screen the possibilities the year’s cataclysmic events had allowed artists from all walks of life to imagine. The depicted mutiny by the crew of the vessel was part of the wave of insurrectionary activity sweeping across the Russian Empire …
ভালো থেকো প্রিয় নগরী। ভালোবাসা রইলো যাতনা অবধি। যদি মনে পড়ে তবে জেনো আছি, এই এখানে, তোমাদের মনের ঘরে, তেমনই সেবা নিমিত্ত। Rest in Peace, Sir #Annisulhuq
From sirens blaring like state of emergency curfews a silhouette emerges, so saturated in lore that his very respiration, heavy and haunting, transcends the medium that nurtured his reputation: In the Star Wars universe, Darth Vader is the specter that extinguishes all hope. Hope is an oft quoted narrative device in Rogue One, one that …
Reading poetry has always been a passion for me and when it comes to the poems of budding poets, I can hardly resist the temptation. Monsoon letters is a known platform for the aspiring poets. Recently I have come across Monsoon Muse-a bilingual collection of poems and read it at a stretch. Like a colourful …
I have grown up with far too many heroic galores of man, to have any realistic idea of human life or its behaviour. My expectation surpasses all common sense and all real ability. Why do I really romanticize and over analyse every little aspect of life? It’s a curious little thing I do, where on …
Generally, people or companies use to advertise their products to make them known and popular to all. The ways of advertisements are newspapers, bill boards, radio and of course television. In these advertisements, the products or services are described in the form of short stories of achievements. It is true that the advertises always show …
