This is a manifesto about ideas. Big ideas, small ideas, and outlandish ideas. Ideas that innovate, ideas that disrupt markets, and especially ideas that irritate. More than ideas, though, Mad Genius is about how ideas are born and the role they play in entrepreneurial thinking.

It has always seemed to me that nonfiction books are not as popular in this part of the world as their fiction counterparts. By this I mean both how nonfiction does not seem to be as visible in bookstores, and also how there does not seem to be that many people writing nonfiction.

Ihave always been intrigued by the historical novel. Some of it is composed around real historical figures, events, and locations,

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul is coming to Bangladesh to attend the Dhaka Literary Festival that will be held at the Bangla Academy on November 17-19.

My long desired visit to Meghalaya this year in fact pushed me back to the landscape of the days we spent here taking refuge in 1971

“No need to pay, I like you enough to give a free night,” Liz said to me.

If you are searching for a good book to pass time, or have a knack for suspense with hints of romance here and there, then I have the book for you.

Whenever I lay buried in a fat volume written by a long 'extinct' writer, the great minds of today often ask me, “Why are you reading that?

Short stories by Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, are a veritable delight to read.

To use a hackneyed expression, times change. As has for the world of corporate business practice.

He watched from his window as the seasons changed. There was no yearning in his gaze, just a weary observer looking through glass

The diurnal and the nocturnal gyrations of the earth, the magnetic and gravitational attraction and repulsion of the celestial spheres

If literary delights are more to the taste than culinary, George Thompson englishes the improvised songs of the palky-bearers taking

I was introduced to the Summoner series in a time when I was craving to read and delve into a new world with very little time to spare.

Derelict is fascinating story of Sudhir Sebastian Rosario, a “native” Christian who was born in the village of Kanakpur, Noakhali but who goes to High School in Pahartali, where his father works for the Bengal Assam Railway.

Chakravarti's vision of the pain and beauty of desolation and loss, the wrench of memories and “the sense of a world slipping away” is masterly.

He points out quite correctly that communalism and fundamentalism have always been two important facets of social history and have in their own way influenced the evolution of culture and civilization.

American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, has finally told the Swedish Academy that he will accept the prize.

I happened to be living in California when the twin towers were destroyed and, although a long way from New York, I observed

“Most men carry weapons of defence with them. I carry none. A revolver was offered me before I started but I declined it. My