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Nazmun Naher Shishir

There will be always some obstacles, but, strong desire would help achieve your dreams. How would you feel returning to the school after a long study break? It would be excited but not easy, for sure. Yet, the distance learning online courses, Bangladesh Open University and many private universities in Bangladesh welcome students to finish ...

A talk with Ashok Ferrey

Nazmun Naher Shishir

Ashok Ferrey was born in Sri Lanka, but brought up in Africa and England. Though being a mathematician: graduated from Christ College, Oxford, Ferrey experiences a lot of professions, and eventually turned out as a celebrated author. Colpetty People (2005) was his first book, and his short story collection The Good Little Ceylonese Girl, (2006) ...

Poetry

Dhaka shuts

Nazmun Naher Shishir

Do not ask me to whisperDhaka would shut me outDo not ask me to turn my run into a serene walkDhaka would push me fall Do not ask me to feel the black of an apocalypse nightDhaka would gulf me upDo not ask me for a landscape delight Dhaka would turn my sigils into fragile"Have ...

An ode to reality: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Nazmun Naher Shishir

Arundhati Roy, an activist, and a fiction writer, has come up with her second fiction stitched in reality: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, after twenty years. Out of the graveyard The Ministry tells a poignant tale of sufferings of those people who are outcastes in the society within the structure of India and their sufferings ...

Art Talk With Abir Shome

On art, artists, and industry

Nazmun Naher Shishir

What is art to you?To me, art is a 'Mere Activity', a lie. I am not puritanical. I communicate with my state and society through art, and mostly my art reacts. To be more specific, by profession I am an artist.I do art to maintain my existence as an artist. It is to be mentioned ...

In the midst of silence

Nazmun Naher Shishir

Anatomy of Silence, by Baby Rani Karmakar, is a courteous exertion of prose writing. It compresses twenty short stories on the struggle of human life, adversities of life, uncertainty, frustration, dilemma, struggle of love and pain, pleasure and sufferings and what not. To pursue the meaning of living, and which not only echoes not only ...

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Reality bites...

Nazmun Naher Shishir

I hidewhen the reality bites. Unable to bridge a wide, Pee-ka-booing the tamarind vides; I,stillgude. No matter home or road I ride,fear does not treatthe trip.StillI bide.

Of Child Labour

Lost peek-a-boo days!

Nazmun Naher Shishir

A girl, aged not more than seven, used to 'live' beside our flat in Jessore cantonment, and back then I was only ten. I never got much time to talk to her, but I used to observe her frightened face in front of her 'owner', her shaking hand while staring down with a heavy bucket ...

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Midst of mask...

Nazmun Naher Shishir

In the midst of beautiful life, in the midst of infancy, we hardly dare to fear. Thus, with time we embrace living. We embrace fear, we therefore embrace mask. In the name of society, culture and religion, we go embracing thousands of identities but our own. Life goes on. By the time, childhood vanishes like ...

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Life...

Nazmun Naher Shishir

Life, the name of starvationLife, the name of sweating summerLife, the name of mirage silver Here, ocean's ship touches mud Still, he smiles with no roses bud Here, knee bone crunches every treadStill, he munches iron ahead...