mahmud rahman's pages

Fiction

Blue Mondays at the Gearshift Lounge,
published in New Age Eid Special, September 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Interrogation,
published in New Age Pahela Baishakh Special, April 14,2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Postcards from a stranger,
published in The Daily Star, December 2, 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Before the monsoons come,
published in The Daily Star, October-November 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Part I, Part II. Part III.
City Shoes in The Village,
published in The Daily Star, April 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Part I, Part II, Part III.
Killing the water
featured at Another Subcontinent
War Stories
(pdf version 23K) (html version)
This story won First Prize in the Katha India Currents Fiction Contest and appeared in India Currents, April 2001
Felicia
(pdf version 25K) (html version) Published in the anthology Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, available from Amazon.com
Balancing Acts,
published in the Winter 2005 issue of the Asian Pacific American Journal, available from the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York City.
Runa's Journey,
published in The Daily Star Book of Bangladeshi Writing , February 2006 from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Nonfiction

NEW: Brushes with Faith, Sin and the Weird,
published in The Daily Star, May 17, 2008.
Looking Backwards: 1947 and After,
published in The Daily Star, September 8, 2007.
Remains of an industrial day,
published in The Daily Star, June 16, 2007.
Waterlogged Dhaka: Will it go the way of Bengal's old capital Gaur?,
published in Star Weekend Magazine, June 15, 2007.
A mythical place called Bangla Motors,
published in New Age Eid Special 2006 from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Will we ever know our fathers?,
a memoir of discovery.
Out of class, into the drivers seat: Mills student takes an 18-wheeler across America Published in Mills College Weekly, April 10,2003

Translation

Every Day, One Handkerchief,
published in Star Literature Eid Special, October 2007, a translation of "Protidin Ekti Rumal," a Bangla short story by Mahmudul Haque.
Torn Wire,
published in Daily Star, January 19, 2007, a translation of "Chera Tar," a Bangla short story by Mahmudul Haque.