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

Degradation of the natural environment and its impact on human lives is now visible all over the world.

Modernisation is not an easy process, but neither is its depiction (or description). Laurence Wylie's Village in the Vaucluse informs us how traditional society can go gently, yet Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart accents a more brutal face.

The gates opened with a screech and I was out of the clinic, it's been over a month, the bright sun hit my eyes, I cringed. It was a

“You are an ass and the rest of your life you will remain one,” Rocky Mirza said, condescendingly blowing a ring of smoke at him, “We

Time is running out fast.

A Chinese publisher pulls a translation of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's poems after it sparked controversy for racy content.

Blood Telegram is especially recommended for readers who were adults in those tumultuous days of 1971 and had suffered mental and physical torment while fleeing from the barbaric Pakistani killers. Each chapter of the book will bring back memories and readers will be able to relate them to their personal experiences.

Professor Rehman Sobhan and his publisher Daily Star Books deserve our congratulations for bringing out this collection of Professor Sobhan's writings which span a period of forty years from 1961 to 2000.

Science-fiction writer George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the 1967 dystopian novel Logan's Run, passes away aged 86.

When we talk about narrative literature, we generally mean fiction. Thrillers, fantasy, detective novels – name anything, and it's

“My Struggle” is a six volume semi-autobiographical novel, or “auto-fiction”, by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. The six

Shahzaman Mozumder's The Guerrilla: A Personal Memorandum of 1971, a nonfictional work launched at Hay Festival Dhaka in 2014

The sun is up in its never ending zest

Farah saw the tree as soon as she entered the new apartment. Her parents had come to Dhaka after the Partition of India in 1947.

Our equipment consisted mostly of small arms. We had virtually no indirect fire support (artillery). Even the mortars we had in our sector were without sights.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) pursued her sustained literary, educational and political activism in the face of stiff social opposition from critics unwilling to accept her gender egalitarian messages positively.

In terms of love stories, The Sharp Hook of Love deserves an intensive perusal. The book tells an engrossing story about the 12th...

A strong will power is essential for every individual to reach the destiny of life. Santiago through his journey learns the language of the universe and discovers that we all are parts of the universal soul.

Several of the writers discuss at varying lengths the gap that exists between theory and practice in general (including in the advanced countries), as well as the imperative of matching practice to the reality of social structure, political culture and form of government, cultural norms and traditions, and economic conditions of a particular country.

Nirupama Subramaniam meets writer and historian Ramachandra Guha on the sunlit balcony of the authors lounge at the Bangla Academy during the Dhaka Lit Fest. Despite the weight of being a public intellectual and academic, there is a lightness about his presence. The author of India before Gandhi (Penguin; 2013) and Patriots and Partisans (Penguin; 2012) speaks at a fast pace, stabbing the air to make a point, as though he feels each word deeply. It is almost like listening to a story.