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 …
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 …
দুটো বুলেট নিয়ে দুটো রিভালভারে, ঠিক তাক করব দুজন দুজনের দিকে ঠিক সেখানটায় যেখানে তুমি কালো টিপ পরে থাকতে, আর আমার কপালের মাঝ বরাবর, যেখানে তুমি হরহামেশা চুমু আঁকতে। মনে বাজবে শরতের সুর, বাতাস বইতে থাকবে হালকা করে। হ্যাঁ অবশ্যই তোমার ওড়না উড়বে সামান্য। দুলবে খানিক। কিছুটা মাতাল হওয়াও যেতে পারে। যেন কিছুটা শুটিংস্পটের মতো …
She waited for the nightmare to pass She thought if she could sleep comfortably Enough If she could wrap the blankets around her bare, torn skin tightly Enough If she could close her eyes and keep them closed for long Enough She could tire away the demons of her soul She thought Eventually their claws …
The man got off from the afternoon train. It was early winter, yet he had a thick tweed coat on. The foxy colour of his coat went well with his bronze complexion. He sloppily wore an old but fancy tie and his faded trousers showed a few fat stitches near his thigh. With daylight fading, he …
11 May , 1988 Islamabad , Pakistan Dear Jilani kaka, Sorry for not replying sooner . It’s been five weeks here in Islamabad . The journey from Kabul was long yet it was worth it . You should come as soon as you find your youngest son, Jahin . You would not believe when …
কিভাবে বোঝানো যায় তাকে পাখি হবার সাধ ক্যানো জাগে কি কারণে আকাশ হৃদ-গহীনে গাঁথা কি সুখ ঘুমকে পৃথিবীর পথে টানে? অনেকটা শোকের পরে ক্যানো গদ্যের মতো হয় ঘর কিসের আশায় জাগে ফুল এ্যতো এ্যতো বর্ষার পর? ঘুরো পথে মুক্তি আসেও যদি মেলে কি দেখা এক পৃথিবী হাসি মুছে গ্যালে কপালের লেখা কেউ কি আবার ভালোবাসে? …
His lyrical novels about exile and loss enjoy critical acclaim but modest sales. Now he’s Zanzibar’s second most famous son – and £840,000 richer. The writer talks about racism on British buses, Priti Patel, and why books have to entertain Abdulrazak Gurnah seems preternaturally calm for someone who has suddenly found themselves in the full …
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1. flimsy pretenses skid right at bijoy ekattur 16. ঘুম, তিনি প্রতিবিপ্লবী। 18. empty plates: tawa searing noodles+unpeeled potatoes 21. balcony railings: your thighs lounging before the storming of bastille dutta road 22. purana paltan at a retirement ball for social democrats. 35. plainclothes: he says. i still don’t really believe you. 48. peacock: you …
