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Mahmud Rahman

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Mahmud Rahman

Mahmud Rahman is a writer and translator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first book Killing the Water, a collection of short stories, was published in 2010 by Penguin Books India. His second book Black Ice, a translation of Bangladeshi writer Mahmudul Haque’s Kalo Borof, was published in 2012 by HarperCollins India.

Articles by Mahmud Rahman

From the Translator: From অপেক্ষা (Opekkha) to Waiting

By Mahmud Rahman

When I was sixteen, I joined a flood-relief expedition organized by the Red Cross. In the north of what was then East Pakistan, the Jamuna – the local name for the Brahmaputra river – had…

Waiting

By Ahmad Mostofa Kamal

If fornication was stopped, what pleasure was left in life?

Translated from Bengali by Mahmud Rahman

Once Again Love

By Shaheen Akhtar

“Cops on our tail, cops on our tail!”“Cut and run, cut and run!”The picnic party microbus is stuck in a traffic jam. Before anyone can react, a hijra— separated from her band which…

Translated from Bengali by Mahmud Rahman

A Feast for Readers: Eid Specials in Bangladesh

By Mahmud Rahman

The last morning of September, I learn that the Daily Star’s Eid Literature Special has come out. It includes a personal essay from me, so I head out for a nearby newspaper vendor.He’s at…

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