Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew

Twenty-four hours after awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy says it had still not managed to speak to the reclusive US singer.

The author goes on a time travel through the streets and alleys of his mind in search of the golden moments as he went on his journey of life.

This book includes some sketches by Hans Christian Andersen and surprisingly, there is an illustration of some dancing dervishes which reminds of a philosophical trajectory marked by the mystic thoughts of Jalal Uddin Rumi, the most famous Persian scholar of all times.

Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar was at the forefront of providing educational opportunities for the Bengalis. He wrote, according to Chandicharan Bandopaddhay, 52 books, of which 30 were in Bangla, 17 in Sanskrit, and 5 in English. He was also in service of the British government. Allegations were rife that he used his position and closeness and influence with the British to push for his own books to be incorporated as school textbooks.

In an article of Book Reviews page titled “Valiant freedom fighters of the soil” published on September 26, 2016, the word should have read “Melaghor”, instead of “Khelaghor”.

This slim primer on Cosmology for general public is an Official Product of International Year of Astronomy 2009, declared by the UN

Abook in memory of the country s most loved teacher. DrKalam is often remembered as a teacher par excellence, whose words, thoughts

Atale of Two Cities is one of the greatest novels by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). It tells the story of the French Revolution that had a

Of the few books written in English on the liberation struggle and the war of independence of Bangladesh, some cover either a specific

I shall be waiting for you

Are you a mere portrait painted on canvas?

So weird a moon is now up,

The sea holds the ship like one might hold a gemstone, lightly gripped between the tips of its forefingers, stuttering. It tries to be

The bald-headed Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada says to Andrea Sachs, “You think this is just a magazine?

An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.

Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover.

It was more than 15O years from now that Captain Nemo travelled across the seven seas in his submarine named Nautilus when no one could think of an underwater ship in his wildest dream.

This book traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages. History of Bangladesh: A Subcontinental Civilisation has been written over a period of twenty two years by Abul Maal A. Muhith, a former high civil servant and currently Finance Minister of Bangladesh.

On the beautiful wings of the Blackbird,

The news took us all by great surprise. Some of us were shocked, and others were very upset. One friend Mahbub, who