Hands
My lover’s hand is a traveller Mapping my body’s coordinates The very angle where earth, space and heat Become water. ** A traveller’s hand is a child An innocent grasping for new things Stories, [...]
অলক্ষিত সীমানা
গতকাল রাতে এসে পৌঁছেছি হিলিতে। আগের দিন গোসল করার কোন উপায় ছিলনা। খানিক পর পর মাথায় একটা তীক্ষ্ণ ব্যাথা জানান দিয়ে যাচ্ছে। গত রাতে বহু অনুনয় করার পর হোটেলের বয় ছোট্ট একটা পাতিলে গরম [...]
Conversation 1
The Cow: How are you feeling today?Sadia: Very cold.The Cow: You have worn so many layers of clothes, still you are feeling cold! Human’s are weird! They want more and more and still not [...]
Illusive Binds
1. If you were leaving Bangladesh through the Benapole Land Port in western Bangladesh, murals of two national poets—Rabindranath Thagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam—will bid you farewell as you enter a short in-between area, [...]
The Casualties
“’India’s BSF’ kills four more Bangladeshis. Four Bangladeshis have been killed allegedly by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in …” – Prothom Alo “BSF kills 4 Bangladeshis in Noagaon, Jashore. India’s Border [...]
A Ripple Caused By A Boy
A boy throws a stone into a pond. He caused a ripple. It would dance, away from the centre to the edgesWhere it falls off, back to time, to memory. I remember when my father [...]
The Freedom of an Animal Kingdom
On animals, On their borders, On ours.
The Weight of A Thousand Eyes
This is my first visit to Bangladesh. What I didn’t give much thought to is what extent it would be the first time for so many Bangladeshi people to encounter someone like me. Throughout our [...]
Halfway
I feel better emotionally and physically this morning. Yesterday was a full day of headache and lots of tension. Nerves also. We are 9 artists making a road trip along the borders of Bangladesh, [...]