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		<title>A new translation: Once Again Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Words Without Borders website, they&#8217;ve published their April issue. It includes Once Again Love, my translation of Shaheen Akhtar&#8217;s Bangla story &#8220;Abar Prem Ashche.&#8221; While you&#8217;re there, check out some of the other fine pieces too.
Here&#8217;s the link to the story.
I first heard about Shaheen Akhtar in late 2004 from Yasmine Kabir [...]]]></description>
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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>Remembering Octavia Butler, 1947-2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Make believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While speaking to a few dozen friends recently, I tried out a&#160;confession. &#160;I said that I was not really who I claimed to be; I was not as old as they knew me and that I had stolen the identity of someone older, someone who had gone through a much richer vein of experiences than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end for rickshaws in Kolkata?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a short minute this summer, it looked like the end had finally come for rickshaws in Kolkata.&#160; But the latest news suggests that the 19th century relic has found a new lease of life. &#160;&#160; &#160;In the streets of the capital of West Bengal, more than 20,000 men, mostly poverty-stricken migrants from Bihar, pull [...]]]></description>
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