Monday Morning Blues

It was on a Monday morning that I was running late for work. To compound my problems, traffic was heavier than usual and only later,
19 February 2016

The Broken Heart

Hope this mail finds you still playing to life's songs in perfect beats. However challenging the tunes are, I know that you will bear with
19 February 2016

Book fair sees weekend crowd

The long queue from Dhaka Gate to Bangla Academy was moving at a snail's pace. People were asking those in front of them to move
19 February 2016

Fair offers books for travellers

While visiting new areas, people often find themselves at a loss due to their lack of knowledge about things like where to stay and how to go to the local tourist spots.
18 February 2016

Ahmed brings out book on Language Movement

The sentiment of the Language Movement in 1952 was limited not only to the capital, but it rippled through different parts of the country, including Chittagong, where local political and cultural leaders created the "Rashtrabhasha Sangram Parishad" on February 4.
17 February 2016

In remembrance of Jibanananda Das

Today is the 118th birth anniversary of poet Jibanananda Das, a legend in Bengali literature. We remember him in this day with the greatest reverence.
17 February 2016

Love, rage, silence: Secret lives of Afghan female poets

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.
17 February 2016

Encyclopaedia at book fair choice of quite a few

Among the planets orbiting around the sun, earth stands third from the sun and it has four layers -- crust, mantle,
16 February 2016

Book fair stall shut down for carrying questionable item

The authorities of Amar Ekushey Granthamela shut down a book stall on charge of selling a book that reportedly hurt religious
15 February 2016

Stall closed at Ekushey book fair for ‘hurting religious sentiments’

Authorities of Amar Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka close down a book stall on charge of displaying a book that reportedly hurts religious sentiments.
15 February 2016

Try It! Superfoods Super Fast

Which fruit can build your resistance to disease? Which vegetable is good for your liver? Eat your way to super health with Try It Superfoods, Super Fast.
14 February 2016

The Good Liar

Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his career.
14 February 2016

Tales of dreams, struggles and triumphs

One of the finest reviews of the book is Purnendu Patri, a dedicated soul of entire Bengal. Many of us know that Patri equally contributed to different genres of art and literature. He had a special fascination for cinema and art. Rahman thinks that Patri was deeply influenced by the philosophical thoughts of Manik Bandyopadhyay.
14 February 2016

Of human nature and a dose of the supernatural

"... readers will find that my flair as a storyteller and strength as a writer reside primarily in the imaginative recreation of the borderland between the margins of the known and the preternatural world."
14 February 2016

Good thrillers never get old

A person stuck in a situation he or she can not escape, or pitted against a ruthless maniac determined to destroy the
14 February 2016

Book fair wears colours of spring

The book fair took up a festive look yesterday with people especially the youths clad in colourful clothes streaming onto the premises on the occasion of Pahela Falgun and Saraswati Puja. While children and women mostly wore yellow saris and flower crowns, men were seen in panjabis.
13 February 2016

Three Poems

Morning comes upon us, a yawn...
12 February 2016

ROSIE

Oh Rosie, Rosie my girl
12 February 2016

OUT OF THE SHADOWS: LITERARY LIFE IN MYANMAR

Though Wiles is absent from these narratives, their seamless clarity is evidence of her skill as an interviewer and editor. Her introductions are invaluable in setting these writers in the context of their physical and cultural environment.
12 February 2016

Dictionaries abound at book fair

History serves as a lighthouse to the new generation to find out the right path in the world of knowledge; that's why, people's quest to learn history is everlasting.
12 February 2016