Mujibur Rahman 
A short story set in East London’s Bangladeshi Community Written by Mujibur Rahman Chapter 1 – Two Names My full name does not fit on most forms. On my passport it is written in full, every letter lined up in strict English font. At home my mother stretches it out, sings it almost, adding that … Read more
A short biography of Radharaman Dutta, the Father of Dhamail. Written by Mujibur Rahman Chapter 1: Ancestral Echoes The life of Radharaman Dutta, the revered Baul mystic and “Father of Dhamail songs,” begins long before his own birth. It is rooted in an old, wandering lineage that moved through centuries of migration, duty, and spiritual … Read more
A short biography of the mystic, philosopher and song writer Hason Raja. Written by Mujibur Rahman Chapter 1: The Zamindar’s Son Dewan Hason Raja Chowdhury was born at the edge of a changing age in the British Raj. He arrived on 21 December 1854 into a world shaped by landed power, old customs and overlapping … Read more
A short story or maybe a factual account related to something that shattered my life. Written by Mujibur Rahman Chapter 1 – The Night My Body Gave Up I had not been well for the past three days. On paper these were supposed to be my “rest days” – the three nights off between my … Read more
A short story set in East London’s Bangladeshi Community Written by Mujibur Rahman Chapter 1 – The Last Night in Whitechapel The machines are the only ones who care whether he lives or dies.They blink and beep like small, impatient gods gathered at his bedside, counting what is left of his heartbeats. Rahim lies still … Read more
A short biography of the Author Arundhati Roy. Written by Mujibur Rahman Chapter 1 – Small Things, First Once upon a time, before she became a name that glowed on book jackets and charge sheets and prize lists, she was simply a small girl with big eyes in a house full of arguments and monsoon … Read more
A Detective Mystery of East London’s Bangladeshi Community Written by Mujibur Rahman Narrated in the voice of Dr. Yusuf Rahman CHAPTER 1 – A Summons In The Fog My acquaintance with Detective Hamza Al-Masri began some years ago, yet I confess there are moments when even I—who have stood beside him in streets and stairwells, … Read more
By the time anyone noticed the man selling silence on Brick Lane, the street was already too loud for most people to hear themselves think. It was a Saturday, the kind where the market spilled over itself — vintage jackets rubbing shoulders with second-hand books, churros curls next to jilapis, teenagers filming everything and nothing … Read more
On the night the Thames spoke Bengali, no one believed the first man who heard it. He was a minicab driver from Stepney Green, halfway through a twelve-hour shift, the kind of night where the city felt like wet cloth draped over tired bones. His name was Jalal, but the controller at the base called … Read more
By the time Maya Rahman found the film rolls, her mother had been dead for six months and the flat had already started forgetting her. Smells went first. The coriander and fried onions that used to cling stubbornly to the curtains evaporated. Her mother’s rose attar, the one she dabbed on her wrists before going … Read more