The Architecture of Awakening
In the quiet hours before the world fully commits to the day, there is a peculiar tension in the air. It is not quite silence, but rather a holding of breath. I often think of the way old houses settle into their foundations at night, a slow,…
Allegory of Colors
For the women of the Indian Subcontinents or from South East Asia, bangle is a very personal ornament. The impact of bangle in their life is vast; they like to wear those with various colors. With the change of color in nature, in the color…
Alphabet of Sun (রৌদ্রাক্ষর), by Shahnaz ParvinThe Weight of a Stroke
In the quiet hours of the morning, I often find myself tracing the lines of old letters left in a wooden box. There is a strange, heavy alchemy in ink on paper—how a series of deliberate marks can hold the entire gravity of a person’s history,…