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Literature
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Non-Fiction
Striped Lightning*
Question 1: How swift is a tiger's attack?
Question 2: How powerful is a tiger's blow?
If I answer that a tiger attacks 'with lightning speed' or 'in the twinkling of an eye' or 'in a split second'

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Shikar tales from the Sunderbans
I was born in Sialkot, in what used to be called West Pakistan. As a boy I lived for some time during the early 1960s in Chittagong due to my father being deputed to then East Pakistan.
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Tenzin Tsundue: poet of Tibetan resistance
I came to know about Tenzin Tsundue back in 2003, when the-then writer of 'Letter from Katmandu' Ajit Baral proposed an interview with a Tibetan refugee poet in India.
 
Mothers Wade To Work
(translated by Farhad Ahmed)

The rains come.
The city's grand mansions wetted
into safe field-mice nests.

 

 
   
 
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