FICTION / The manifesto of laughter
31 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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FICTION / Aquatic deity
12 December 2025, 19:23 PM
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FICTION / The colour of red hibiscus
12 December 2025, 19:23 PM
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FICTION / Writer’s block
31 October 2025, 19:37 PM
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FICTION / Free at last
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
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FICTION / The u-turn
26 September 2025, 19:02 PM
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FICTION / The truth factory
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
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FICTION / The dawn’s return
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM
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FICTION / Showtime
22 August 2025, 19:26 PM
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FICTION / A gilded cage
15 August 2025, 19:18 PM
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Writer’s block
Asif stares at the blank page, his chest tightening with that all-too-familiar dread.
31 October 2025, 19:37 PM
Free at last
“If my father had any unpaid debt to anyone, please contact me or my younger brother Hamza,” Omar said to the congregation at the funeral, trying to sound soft and loud at the same time, “And if my father ever hurt any of you unintentionally, please forgive his soul and pray for him. Thank you.”
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
The truth factory
By the year 2035, Dhaka forgets the scent of the Gulshan-Banani lake.
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
The dawn’s return
Long, long ago, when the world was younger, wiser, softer, when the animals were braver and the people were gentler, when art lived and music sailed, and the skies were a true, honest blue, there lived a man who loved a woman, and they lived in a little house they loved very much. How they met o
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM
A gilded cage
The automated blinds of the penthouse in Gulshan, an upscale area, rise with a soft hum, revealing a picture-perfect Dhaka morning.
15 August 2025, 19:18 PM
Echoes through the balcony
Saiyara didn’t wave a flag to voice her rights on the streets. She had never marched in a protest line, never chanted beneath the dark blanket of smoke-heavy skies. Her revolution was quieter, and it carried a little soul swaddled in a bassinet beside her, traces of milk on her lips and dreaming
1 August 2025, 19:48 PM
Fleeting panic
“I’m scared” a voice calls out.
2 May 2025, 18:01 PM
The thief
Farid Shaheb earned a fair bit at the office today. These days, because of the Anti Corruption Commission and newspaper journalists’ incessant pestering, he can no longer directly take the money offered to him.
25 April 2025, 18:00 PM