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Shabnam Nadiya

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  • Fiction
    • Doublings
    • The Coming of the Storm
    • A Journey in the Night
    • What They Love So Well
    • Seven for a Secret
    • Parakrousis
    • Eating Bone
    • magic man
    • Ishwari’s Children
    • And We Rise How We Rise
    • Teacher Shortage
    • Girl in the Rain
    • Pye Dog
    • Going Home
    • Spin
    • Ganja Girl
  • Non-fiction
    • Why Do So Many Men Rape?
    • Democracy Being Off-roaded?
    • On Translating Bangla Literature
    • Woman Alone
    • Claiming Our Ground
    • Letter to My Dear Friend
    • Do It by the Numbers
    • My First Freedom Fighter
    • Remembering Avijit Roy and a tolerant Bangladesh
    • None for the Birds
    • সুনীলের প্রয়াণ: “ভালোবাসার মুঠোয় ফেরা”
    • কারা আমার মুখের ভাষা কাইড়া নিতে চায়?
    • Glimpses of My Grandma; How I Grew Up to be Me
    • Our Shoulders Are Strong Enough
    • Remembering Satyajit Ray
    • Birangona
    • Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934-2012): The Artist Returns
    • We are Not Communal…Perhaps
    • Wanted: A Giant Leap
  • Poems
    • Skin
    • What are the Things You Leave Behind?
    • For a Friend Who Remains Unapologetically Unpoetic
    • baby
    • Remembering
    • How Love Dies
    • A Day at the Zoo
    • Flying Blind
    • Him and Her
    • A Valentine Out of Season
    • Cityscape
    • Little Girl Blues
    • Faith
    • Nightfall
  • Translations
    • An Embarrassing Topic by Ruma Modak
    • Beloved Rongomala (An Excerpt) by Shaheen Akhter
    • Delbahar and Ghee by Prasanta Mridha
    • Me and Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Shahaduz Zaman
    • Milk by Mashiul Alam
    • The Peacock Throne (An Excerpt) by Shaheen Akhtar
    • This Gift of Silver by Shagufta Sharmeen Tania
    • Whatever the Wounds, Whatever the Damage by Shahaduz Zaman
    • A Cloudless Night, an Eclipsed Moon by Papree Rahman
    • The Meat Market by Mashiul Alam
    • An Indian Citizen in Our Town by Mashiul Alam
    • Hands by Anwara Syed Haq
    • Snakes, Husbands, Ashalota, and Us by Shaheen Akhtar
    • Moirom Doesn’t Know What Rape Is by Selina Hossain
    • Nineteen Seventy One by Humayun Ahmed
    • Dawn of the Waning Moon by Jharna Rahman
    • A Forest Born Poem by Khaled Hossain
    • Water Bird (Oliullah tried his whole life to become a poet) by Khaled Hossain
    • Parul’s Motherhood by Selina Hossain
    • Nameless Casteless by Hasan Azizul Huq
    • Five Crows and One Freedom Fighter by Shaheen Akhtar
    • Once Upon a Time Daughters Were Born Here by Purabi Basu
    • She Knew the Use of Powdered Pepper by Shaheen Akhtar
    • Advertisement for a Friend by Mahadev Saha
    • যুদ্ধ: লুইজি পিরানদেল্লো
    • The Rage of Moonlight by Purabi Basu
    • Arshinagar by Jharna Rahman
    • My Poems Belong to No One Else by Abid Azad
    • However Far You Go by Hasan Hafiz
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Water Bird (Oliullah tried his whole life to become a poet) by Khaled Hossain

Published in Parabaas, January 2007.

 

You had told me about the secret blossoms of extinct trees that were
Heavier with mystery than the saga of life. And the tender, complex tale of 
losing everything through one’s own stupidity.

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“Chicago Quarterly Review” Reading at the San Francisco Public Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-l4QyhVsYA&t=99s

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