Iqbal and Atiya Begum

By the end of July 1907, news reaches Atiya through a student named Parmeshwar Lal that Iqbal's patriotic songs published in Makhzan have become so popular that they are being sung in the whole of northern India: 'houses, streets, alleys resounded with Iqbal's national songs, which created a feeling of nationalism unknown in India before.'
15 April 2016

Still struggling after 1971…..

MR Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist.
10 April 2016

A Fugitive's Pendulous Mind

This monumental novel speaks of the phenomena that can persuade people to commit crimes, the inner torment that forces people to burn with a feeling of guilt and the ultimate expiation offenders go through while playing cat and mouse with their conscience.
10 April 2016

The Lighter Side of History

I am not sure if I can call it the lighter side of history, or, more appropriately, history off the beaten track...
10 April 2016

Driftwood

Her body lies like Driftwood on the sand
8 April 2016

Bereavement

Things were not so rosy at first, But soon they were straightened out.
8 April 2016

Iqbal and Atiya Begum

Ten years after Iqbal is born in Sialkot in undivided India, a girl named Atiya is born thousands of miles away in Istanbul. Just as Iqbal's father ran a business in Sialkot, Atiya's father Hasan Ali Fyzee (1827–1903) ran a business in that Turkish metropolis.
8 April 2016

On the eve of India partition…

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 ...
3 April 2016

Flash Point

An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
3 April 2016

Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover. Just before this takeover..
3 April 2016

My Days in National Book Centre

Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.
3 April 2016

From Subjective Impulses to Universal Echoes

This is how I sent a message through a social network to poet Nahid Kaiser expressing my eagerness to read her latest book...
3 April 2016

In this misty field one day

Nobody will find me walking in this misty field one day, I know;
1 April 2016

Then Again Love

Wild darkness of rain...
1 April 2016

Blue Afternoon

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.
1 April 2016

Struggling since 1971..

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.
28 March 2016

Genocidal rape should be part of genocide

Eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday underscored the need for incorporating genocidal rape in the definition of
24 March 2016

CU Sangskrit students confine dept head

Around 100 Sangskrit students of Chittagong University confined their departmental chairperson to her office for over
24 March 2016

Good Start to a Series

Only Time Will Tell is the first of seven novels of the Clifton Chronicles series written by Jeffrey Archer.
23 March 2016

BNP criticises CEC's fair UP polls claim

BNP yesterday lambasted the chief election commissioner for his comment before journalists on Tuesday that the first
23 March 2016