দর্পন কবির
Recited by Mafi Islam
April 12, 2026
বসন্ত নয় অবহেলা
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"বসন্ত নয় আমার দরজায় প্রথম কড়া নেড়েছিল অবহেলা।"
Recitations
Passages
Prose I return to — set down here to be read slowly, without distraction.
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রুদ্র মুহম্মদ শহিদুল্লাহ
উপদ্রুত উপকূল, ফেব্রুয়ারি ১৯৭৯ — Recited by Mafi Islam
April 12, 2026
অপরবেলায়
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"বড়ো বেশি সংসার এসে গেছে শরীরে স্বভাবে — এতোটা কি উচিত ছিলো!"
Virginia Woolf
The Waves (1931)
April 6, 2026
The Waves — Opening
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"The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
March 25, 2026
Letters to a Young Poet — Letter Four
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"I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves."
James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time (1963)
March 10, 2026
The Fire Next Time — Opening
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"I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis."
Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities (1972)
February 20, 2026
Invisible Cities — Cities & Memory 1
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"When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city."