My struggle with writing on July 5, 2019It was a September morning in 2016 battered with torrential rainfall, clutched by the strong smell of earth, mangoes, and wet leaves. This was the inaugural day of subscribing to an English Newspaper in our household. As I leafed through the crisp pages, a magazine slid out, detaching from the limbs of the newspaper. The […]
Arundhati at Chobi Mela on June 22, 2019I found it difficult to sleep the night before March 5. After all, writer Arundhati Roy was supposed to speak at a Chobi Mela session that day. I absolutely hated having to wait to see my idol in flesh and blood. I woke up to an email notification which read that the session, ‘Utmost Everything’, […]
What makes life interesting! on June 13, 2019Soon after grabbing a hearty iftar (the meal eaten by Muslims to break fast in the month of Ramadan at sunset) meal, my friends and I drift through the empty streets of Dhanmondi and wind up at Rabindra Sarobar. The air is undisturbed from the razzmatazz of the vehicles’ mechanical cries, suffused with the smell […]