Happy Anniversary to my Monthly Digest Series! ✨ Despite initial misgivings, I managed to churn out a blog post every single month over the last year, (barring Jan 2020 when I was holidaying in Dhaka),…

This post was originally written in 2015 for my old blog. Chitkadoni is a Bengali word that refers to someone who cries very often. A lot of my past is resurfacing in lockdown as memories.…

Where The Crawdads Sing is the story of Kya Clark who raises herself in the North Carolina marshes after being abandoned by her family as a child. Kya is an unforgettable character, a fiercely independent…

Before we dive into the history of TMM and TMB, a bit of geography is in order. Nizar was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1988. I arrived roughly a year later, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.…