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

Things were not so rosy at first, But soon they were straightened out.

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. Just before this takeover..

Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.

This is how I sent a message through a social network to poet Nahid Kaiser expressing my eagerness to read her latest book...

To me, Aynakhal Tea Estate is a metaphor for a world unknown to all but only those who work there: the British Mangers and Assistant Managers, the Bengali Clerks known as Babus, and the workers called Coolies. This world is a lot different from the one we live in; for it has its own rules, its own code of conduct, and challenges and dangers ...

Nobody will find me walking in this misty field one day, I know;

Wild darkness of rain...

Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.

Mr Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist. Despite being a graduate of Accounting he has written on a wide array of social & political causes/issues. The author has published 40 different books so far as a social novel, research papers, stories and so on.

Only Time Will Tell is the first of seven novels of the Clifton Chronicles series written by Jeffrey Archer.

Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes

DR. Mohit Kamal, a renowned psychiatrist, mostly known for his psychological novels, is a patron of literature. He has authored a novel titled Dukhu out of his great admiration of the personal and literary life of our national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Depoeticized Rhapsody is, oxymoronically speaking, a poetic endeavor that aims at delineating the constantly changing modern lifestyle. Justifiably enough,

Reviewing a book that traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages has been, for me, a formidable experience, especially since a great deal of material has been covered within those pages. Almost as a fiendish twist, for a fairly lengthy portion, the book is as much a Reader's Digest version of Indian history as it is of Bangladesh. However, when one considers the subtitle of the book, A Subcontinental Civilisation, one can acknowledge

This emptiness does not fill

I have built home in the air

The call to prayer wakes Sarah up every morning. There are at least three mosques surrounding her apartment and each of them take

PERHAPS the ghorkuno Bengalis were introduced to real life travelstories first by Rabindranath Tagore and next by Syed Mujtaba Ali (Deshe Bideshe).

Robinson Crusoe is one of the earliest works of fiction in English literature. In this book Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) illustrated...