Contents: Preface. 1. Nayanchara/Syed Waliullah. 2. In the urban jungle/Makbula Manzoor. 3. Beyond the circle of light/Husne Ara Shahed. 4. Mariam and the miser/Niaz Zaman. 5. Revelation/Farhana Haque Rahman. 6. Wet Sandals/Maithilee Mitra. 7. A recluse in rain/Manal Mohamed. 8. Celebration of rain/Humayun Ahmed. 9. The world of love and labour/Selina Hossain. 10. Infidel/Shaheen Akhtar. 11. A Bengali abroad/Imdadul Haq Milon. 12. Why does Durgati weep?/Parag Chowdhury. 13. A saree for Medina/M. Zafar Iqbal. 14. Rupa/Humayun Ahmed. 15. Didima's necklace/Niaz Zaman. 16. A woman called Mrinmoyee/Syed Badrul Ahsan. 17. The house with the 22 rooms/Nasreen Khundker. 18. Grand finale/Deena Forkan. 19. The poetry audition/Kazi Anis Ahmed. 20. Girl in the rain/Shabnam Nadiya. 21. The living dead/Syed Manzoorul Islam. 22. The wife/Najmul Alam. 23. The wind plays through the emptiness/Rezaur Rahman. 24. Soul mate/Maithilee Mitra. 25. My beautiful cupboard/Nasreen Khundker. 26. The faces of a woman's sari/Marisa Anaman. 27. Shanti's dreams/Tulip Chowdhury. Writers and translators.