The Witch's TongueThe sky was still and heavy. I sat alone, listening to the wind slide over the rooftops like a whisper that didn’t want to be heard. That night, God spoke. Not in thunder. Not in fire. But in silence beside the television set. He gave visions. Six or seven, clear and hard as bullets. And one of them — one — was dark enough t

This distinctly Bengali id is usually seen since the rallying cry that described its war for independence in 1971 from Pakistan (then West Pakistan, which Bangladesh was the East Pakistan to). At the moment, the three pillars of Bangladesh’s independence were language: creating Bengali since the state language and ensuring its preservation; recog