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Literature
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Short Story
Fashion Girl
It seemed that everyone had turned up for my cousin's wedding all of our other cousins, our uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces, plus all of Chacha's business colleagues, neighbours and friends.
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The Arnolds and Empire (Concluding Part)
Tom Arnold's first child, Mary Augusta, was born in 1851. In later years she became famous as the novelist, Mrs Humphry Ward.
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Booknotes
A study in contrast
The two volumes of poetry under review here, though both are by women, and both by poets who live and work (or have worked, past tense, in one case) in Dhaka, however, are a study in contrast.
 
Eve Teasing
When Herculean monsoon winds
Enfolded the Krishnachura in his arms
Teasing her petals to redness
Did they see her tremble?
Did they blame her passion?

When the Sun seduced the Sunflower

 

 
   
 
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