News
Films, books, screenings and honours, newest first.
Now
- 2026Soul of Nature: BOK is finished (87 minutes, 4K) and on the international festival circuit.
- 2026Man Is Just a Concept, a wordless feature of about 75 minutes, is in preparation. Shooting begins in December.
- 2026The screenplay Hijal: A Character Without a Shadow is complete and in development.
- 2026Selected Love Poems is published by Boiwala Book Cafe, Kolkata and Santiniketan.
- 2026Poems in English translation begin to appear on this site. Read them.
Earlier
- 2024Honoured inaugurator of the Tejgaon College Poetry Festival, Dhaka, 2 May.
- 2024Agachar Songsar published by Srot, Agartala, Tripura; Chashar Colony by Jagotik at the Ekushey Book Fair; This Book Could Have Been Called… by Bratya Creation.
- 2024“Kobitay Bangabandhu” honour from the little magazine Lok; an honour from the poets, writers and cultural workers of Narsingdi.
- 2023Bangla Academy Literary Award, for his contribution to poetry.
- 2022Kadar Kolorob published by Bratya Creation, 20 November; Bhater Harikiri by Palok Publishers, Kolkata Book Fair.
- 2022“Maya: The Lost Mother” in competition at the 1st World Film Festival Kolkata (September) and screened at the 5th Toronto Multicultural Film Festival (July).
- 2022PhD, Assam University, on music in the films of Ritwik Ghatak.