এই ভাত দেখলে ভয় লাগে এখন!এই ভাতের জন্যই কতোবিধ কৌশল! মানুষের ক্ষুধা জীবনেরও উর্ধ্বে,নিশ্বাস এখানে দুই টাকার হলুদ কোন খাম! ভাত যে কি নিদারুণ জরুরি অভিশাপ,বোঝার পরে আর থালার ভেতরআঙুল রাখতে পারিনি, একি কোন পাপ! পেটের দিকে তাকালেই দেখি উচ্ছৃঙ্খল রাক্ষস। রাত্রি নিদে মানুষের সাথে আঁতাতে ক্ষুধা যেঈশ্বর হয়ে উঠছে, এখন প্রকৃত ঈশ্বরের কি হবে! …
These Are The Best Books Of 2019
Fiction The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) In this magnificent novel, Whitehead once again draws inspiration from true atrocities of America’s past, this time creating a fictional account of a real-life Florida reform school for boys that was infamous for torturing and killing its poor black students, and then secretly burying their bodies, in …
Rupi Kaur Is the Writer of the Decade
The young Canadian poet understands better than most of her contemporaries how future generations will read. Rupi Kaur has published two books: 2015’s Milk and Honey, 2017’s The Sun and Her Flowers. Her epigrammatic verse is spare, the offspring of classical aphorism (if you’re feeling generous) and the language of self-help. The poems have a …
To All My Friends
do not relic the earth with my corpse bequeath it to the sky — as flocks abandon into the evening do not air my obituary entombed, as I was, for all these years, spending breath among you, bequeath me to the sky right as the evening splinters nests into life
Why is poetry having a moment?
Poetry sales are soaring but why is the art form making a comeback? We ask members of the LSE community what they think. On the last Friday of every month, Café 54 in the New Academic Building is home to LSE Chill – the School’s open mic night for budding performers. During November’s event, Economics …
Antiseptic Kiss
you waltz prance over me aloof from the world — look see: gashed our left toe at the trip, have we? Ish! the mess! sit, my darling lend me your wound bear my handkerchief as I swab for amnesty — the pardon to plant two antiseptic kisses Art: Bill Henson
Poet
they, who repair, by their own rules, erode, sever like riversare the ones: the poets! nourish them with the ashes of childhoods past: dreams, salt, trails by fire, the poisoned fruit… school them on the austerity of stone, the poise of the grove, the silent ploy of corpses they are the ones: the poets! if …
Explore the list of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
Stories have the power to change us. We asked a panel of leading writers, curators and critics to choose 100 genre-busting novels that have had an impact on their lives, and this is the result. These English language novels, written over the last 300 years, range from children’s classics to popular page turners. Organised into …
Spiralling
Seated within myself with a piece of parchment without direction without any thought about why or what or when or how but… …Wondering whether Michael Jordan would approve if I stole his pumps to impress a platypus and induce… ..Hallucination amidst raindrops and cheetahs who feel subjugated by angry chauvinistic zebras calling them sexy and …
সহজ জীবন
দেয়ালে ঝুলন্ত সময়ে চোখ রেখে- দিন মাস বছর যুগ হারিয়ে যায় মহাকালের কক্ষপথে। আদিগন্ত নিস্প্রান স্পর্শ! ব্যাস্ত দিনের ক্লান্তি নিয়ে পৃথিবীর বুকে ঘুমিয়ে পরে যান্ত্রিক শহর; একুরিয়ামে বন্দি চোখ অবাক দৃষ্টিতে তাকিয়ে থাকে- নীল কাচের ওপারে ধূসর জগতে; প্রাচীন পিরামিডের কোঠরে সংরক্ষিত দিনলিপি’র মোড়কে ধুলোর আস্তরণ সরিয়ে স্মৃতিচারনে কাটে অবসর; অতীতের পথ ধরে ভবিষ্যতের অতলে …
