Illustration: Jahid JamilExcerpted from Arunava Sinha’s translation of Khwabnama, to be published soon by Penguin Randon House India. Tamiz’s father came here for what could only be a momentary glimpse of this scene, for Munshi never stayed very long. Tamiz’s father, the ignorant son of a fisherman, could not tell the pure apart from the impure. Tamiz’s father trembled every now and then, struck by fear and regret at having considered such a being a mere man. Turning his head away, Tamiz’s father struggled up from the mud to climb back on shore, and set off for home directly.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 12, 2019 11:15 UTC