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Short Story
The Chair
A house without a chair?
Everyone in our house suddenly began to feel this way. And that was it: the matter was placed on the family 'agenda', and the debate commenced.
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Book Review
'neither from here nor from there’
Amu, Shonali Bose; Penguin India; 2004; 142 pp.; Rs. 200.
Amu', a short novel by film-maker Shonali Bose, is based on the life of a twenty-one year old Indian-American woman named Kajori Roy, orphaned during the 1984 Sikh riots in Delhi. It is the story of a rather convoluted journey she undertakes in search of her roots when she returns to India--the land where she was born, and where she'd lost her birth parents.
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Book Review
Oath-taking at Bidyanathtala
Bangladesh Liberation War Mujibnagar Government Documents 1971; compiled and edited by Sukumar Biswas; Mowla Brothers; February 2005; Taka 1200; 655 pp.
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Tempered Poetry
My life in words or words from my life
Either way , unfinished
Like an aphrodisiac, that one
Ventures to taste
But is too scared to drink
Beyond a sip
For fear of revealing too much
Not
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Sunday Afternoon Reverie
Where do I begin my science
Ply my trade of reason
To a thousand questions
That wrap around the naked boughs
Of this late season
Dare I reckon with the hand
That has been dealt
Or
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