I wrote pages last night with utmost neutrality on the Israel-Iran conflict. And failed. How can I be neutral if the whole world isn’t? You cannot show me a single opinion on this specific issue where impartiality sails. The real question is—why? As I type this, US President Donald Trump is sitting in the Oval,…
A quick question : are you a Bengali or Bangladeshi? Not long ago, I wrote “The Fading Symphony” and coined the term “Bengalism”—a shared sense that we, as speakers of Bangla, experience. However, what I overlooked there, as I addressed great authors and poets like Micheal & Rabindranath as the setting sun of literature, was…
by Sazid The nature of immortalizing someone is so prevalent in our country that we tend to forget the famous lines by Madhusudan Dutta, “Keep this servant in your thoughts, O Mother,” as immortalizing someone is the duty of time itself. We even exaggerate this immortalization to another level, making an alive, breathing figure immortal….
While I write this piece, I can see students outside my window controlling traffic in the scorching heat, while others are repainting the same wall where they painted the face of a fascist just last week. They seem restless, as if even the sun is hesitant to cast its heat upon them. Their spirit and…
If you don’t know the meaning of “dilapidated,” then you’re on the right wrong track. Since joining as a novice in class seven, you’ve been on a long journey. Yet, you’re still the same. While your peers (whom you once surpassed) are still striving through hardships to improve, you remain in the same dream with…
