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		<title>Remembering Mahmudul Haque (1941-2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&#34;One day everything becomes a story&#34;


An abridged version of this article appeared The Daily Star on 2 August 2008.


Three years after partition, a ten-year-old boy nicknamed Botu moved from Barasat, now across a border, to Dhaka, settling with his family in the new flats built in Azimpur for government employees. At West End High School, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yaba Sundori: real life clobbers fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hot release at this year&#8217;s Boi Mela was the novel Yaba Sundori.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The phrase had only been coined last November with the police campaign against the methamphetamine drug marketed as Yaba. That was our News of the Hour, the Sensation of the Month. 
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; What a sensation that was. It began with a circle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masud Rana: Super Spy Of Transplant Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Yet another Bond movie has come out, this time a remake of Casino Royale. Ian Fleming is long dead, but his creation, the debonair James Bond, Agent 007, keeps popping up in a new face. Bond&#39;s grip on the male psyche is tenacious. And why not? He zips to exotic locales and outwits vicious enemies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the AWP in Austin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first week of March I flew to Austin, Texas. &#160;&#160; &#160;When I stepped out of the hotel to find something to eat, the sun had&#160; disappeared. My ears were immediately assaulted by a cacophony of bird sounds. The trees swarmed with birds that looked like crows but didn&#8217;t sound anything like crows. What birds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Octavia Butler, 1947-2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget inspiration, forget talent, don&#8217;t worry about imagination: her advice for a new fiction writer was simple.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#34;Persist,&#34; she said.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Around the time I discovered Octavia Butler&#8217;s writing advice, I was still new to writing fiction. I was anxious about both inspiration and talent. I worried about imagination, since in my rather complicated life I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane from the past, via Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today sitting at my computer at home, I learned, from the pages of a book published in 1890, that the &#34;Backergunge cyclone of October 1876&#34; was the most destructive to life in 19th century Bengal.&#160; Considering the scale of the devastation, it was perhaps also one of the worst disasters worldwide.&#160; The hurricane is described [...]]]></description>
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