Life Stories
Everyday moments, memories and what I learned from them.
Risk
Walking the wrong way from Kakoli, then letting the better bus go, taught me something small but true. No risk, no gain.
4 min readThe daily commute in Dhaka
I woke up late and stood at the main road watching packed bus after packed bus go by. A few thoughts on catching a bus in Dhaka and its so-called seating service.
3 min readWhat water teaches us
However hard you strike it, water comes back together. Put it on uneven ground and it still finds its level. A few things water can teach us, if we listen.
2 min readWhat a tree teaches us
A tree gives fruit, flowers and wood all its life and asks for very little. Even when nobody looks after it, it keeps giving until the very end.
1 min readOne night, on patience and anger
On a night I couldn’t sleep, I told my younger brother about my failures. He gave me two simple pieces of advice. Be patient, and never get angry.
3 min readThe 28th of Boishakh and the old amla tree
The first morning I went out after being ill, I walked along mossy brick lanes to the ruins of an old house, and the amla tree that still stands behind it.
2 min readA dream and a warning
In a dream I threw things out of my brother’s 11th-floor window. Then came a call from an unknown number and police around the building. I woke up feeling warned.
3 min readSorrow
Nobody wants Sorrow and everyone wants Happiness. Yet in our hardest times it’s Sorrow who stays. A short piece that imagines the two of them as people.
3 min readPosition
To some people a position means responsibility, to some it means power, and to some it is just a word. And our society measures people by their position alone.
2 min readWelcome to Uponnas
Some stories only live in memory, so I started writing them down. Why the blog is called Uponnas and what you’ll find here.
1 min read