Death news often comes

Maybe it was a feeling of triumph that I felt on my way to the bus stand. A sensation of joy took me over and made me forget about

These stories were told to John Drew by the Hungarian poets Ádám Nádasdy, translator of Shakespeare and Dante, and Győző Ferencz, Keeper of the Radnóti Archive.

'Boorha Binch' is the term used by walkers and wanderers in the historical urban jewel that are the Lodhi Gardens in central New Delhi.

A son worries whether his mother, who is travelling alone, will be able to haul her luggage down from the conveyor belt. An elderly

The committee that decides the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature every year is in shambles. The Swedish Academy, rocked by a sexual harassment scandal against an individual close to the committee,

Ours is a society of cultural amnesia, so it is not surprising that Alamgir Kabir is not a part of our usual reminiscences.

When I put my first step

As much as the ongoing Rohingya crisis is being extensively covered by the local and international media, the distinct lack of a serious

There is perhaps no event in the long history of the British empire in India that continues to exert so strong and abiding a fascination as the great uprising of 1857.

Ring out your notes of triumph! Ring out your notes of triumph!

“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.

In his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections, and accents of resistance and even revolution.

The hardcover is clothed with a blue dust jacket with an illustration of two egrets flying among clouds and above the title. The clouds, I believe, represent Kalimpong, where the novel is set and the story unrolls along its winding roads. Sometimes it leaps over continents and focuses on another character living an immigrant life in New York City. Sometimes, it travels to the past, shedding light on history.

Published in 1947, the background of Albert Camus' The Plague is that of Oran, a coastal town of colonial Algeria. The author certainly

A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-

You taught me language, and my profit on't

When I met Pip, he was hanging upside down. It was not by choice though; someone held him by his feet against his will and made

He is surely one of the most loved and respected professors in Bangladesh. Even though he was mostly anchored at the Department of

This book is the story of Professor Nurul Islam, arguably Bangladesh's most famous living economist. The narrative begins with his