Trayvon Martin & Limon Hossain: Innocence on Trial
Trayvon Martin and Limon Hossain: Innocence on Trialby Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org I recently came across a chalked message on the sidewalk that summed up the media…
Is it Eid today in Matiranga?
Is it Eid today in Matiranga?By Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org Is it Eid today? Is it the end of Ramadan? I remember when I was a…
Our Political Misomusists
Our Political Misomusistsby Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org It is an elementary fact of linguistics that the same word can carry different meanings. In particular, the word…
Kazi Nazrul Islam: Hindus and Muslims
Hindus and Muslims by Kazi Nazrul Islam Translated by Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org One day I was discussing the Hindu-Muslim problem with GurudevRabindranath. Gurudev said: Look, you…
Rain on the Window
I am in the back of a car. It is late at night. Outside it’s raining. Outside it’s Monsoon. As the car passes through small village…
Climbing with friends
Portraits of friends taken during climbing at Turtles in 2018. Click on images before for full pictures.
Metaphorica
Remember when words fell on the soft ground of your mind like big droplets of rain? Or when they rose up like incense smoke in the…
Antipodes
II. Vortices of dreams Gulf streams of treacherous shadows Enchantment of deep slumber at the rocky edges of the night… Like the ancient rhythm of siren…
Discussing Claude Lévi-Strauss with a girl
I once met a girl at a cafe who gave me her phone number. I looked her up on the internet and learned that she had studied…
The Trial of David B.
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” — Franz Kafka, “The Trial” I was reminded…