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Sun-dusted bones – Deb Bandyopadhyay
The sky asked the river
‘How do I look?’...
Azrael’s Call – Hamiruddin Middya
She suddenly sat bolt upright, pointed to a corner and screamed, “Look Khadu, look at that hideous black cat glaring at me. Drive it away, I am scared stiff!” The visitors were shocked no end...
Marco Polo Travels : 2020 – Amar Mitra
One of them had started for Venice, Italy. Marco Polo, the wanderer, on his way back to Venice, had arrived in a new country. So began this world-travelogue...
Parables of Pandemic – Romel Rahman
One day, a virus-infected patient came to the buffalo in the middle of the night. Hugging the beast, he started wailing. He begged the buffalo to take his disease...
Blue (The Night We Died of Plague) – Giuseppe A. Samonà
All dishevelled, she comes through the woods along the path joining her house to ours, brandishing a newspaper and shouting, cholera! cholera! And indeed the front page announces three or four cases in Naples, maybe even ten – along with mussels, vibrio bacteria, panic...
Purple Candles – Avishek Parui
Feelings from the past haunt the story from inside, sometimes articulated or implicitly revealed, but often not, expressed rather as contradictions, gaps and intensities in physical presence...
What We Really Wanted – Romel Rahman/Abhishek Roy
A satirical take on exploitation and further deprivation of the poor in Pandemic...
The Spy – Mojaffor Hossain
Bereavement and belonging - memories of people banished from the land they love, play at the heart of the story...
A Year In Drowning – Neil Chowdhury and Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Between you, me and our hatred for each other
an ocean came...
Personally , I am an admirer of the Translator 😍. I usually go through her writings . This is also…
Personally I am an admirer of the Translator, I usually prefer to go through her writings . She is an…
Such a simple yet powerful expression of the wrongdoings that occurs in domestic sectors. Absolutely loved the story.
Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?
Such a wonderful work ma'am ❤️ I loved it
Just a wonderful work Ma'am....I loved it❤️