Jiboner Bone Bone (In the Forests of Life) is a heartfelt autobiography written by Nuruddin Ahmad (1920-2010), one of the first Bengali-Muslim officials of the Indian Forest Service (IFS). The tales of his eventful life take in the growth and coming to being of Bangladesh, his observations on Bengali middle-class society and how he worked his way to the top of the Forest Department in the midst of hostile British and Pakistani governments.

Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again.

The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on—

It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali or Song

None can fathom

Surabala and I went to school together, played husband and wife, being the kids that we were. Whenever I went to their house, her

At first sight of our island, I confess

The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young

Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and

The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-

Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened

Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S., attracted an international readership when her debut novel Arabian Jazz

When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.

I should have been listening to one of the scores of imaginative events on the poetry, life and times of the pre-eminent poet of the

You, who are

Within the givens of life

After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to

I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—

If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of Green Gables and its sequels are just the thing you have been looking

“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said Arundhati Roy in her interview with Patrick Carey for Books and Arts.