Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman goes on sale

Copies of Harper Lee's eagerly awaited novel Go Set a Watchman are now on sale in UK bookshops, where it was released at midnight.
14 July 2015

Local Governance in Bangladesh

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Talukdar - Senior Programme Manager of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, and author of
12 July 2015

Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization

Bangladesh abounds in paradoxes. It has confounded many developmental pundits by maintaining a fairly brisk pace of economic growth while continuing
12 July 2015

The Last Nizam

A lucid and compelling history of one of India's most wealthy dynasties and one of its most controversial royals The Last Nizam is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad, and how the heir to India's richest princely state gave up a kingdom and retired to the dusty paddocks of outback Australia.
5 July 2015

Bangladesh: Promise and Performance

Edited by Rounaq Jahan, Bangladesh: Promise and Performance reproduces ten papers (out of the sixteen submitted), with the necessary revisions, that were presented at a conference entitled “Bangladesh at 25” at Columbia University, USA, in December 1996.
5 July 2015

Unnoyon Bhabnay Kormosongsthan O Sromobazar (Employment and Labour Market in Development Discourse)

Literature on economics and development in Bangla language can hardly be found. Economists in Bangladesh are generally comfortable in writing academic articles and books in English.
5 July 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE

Today's SLR starts with the story of a woman who became a mother, fell into being a maid, all in the hope of being…a woman.
3 July 2015

The Maid With Four Daughters

She is dark complexioned, a little on the skinny side and of medium height.
3 July 2015

Bucket List: The Kerala Journal

Today we are heading to Thekkady. The Periyar forests of Thekkady has one of the best wildlife reserves and spice plantations, as well as treks and walks for the adventurous.
3 July 2015

Two Poems by Farah Naz

My heart has no other desire
3 July 2015

Fragile Things: Charming and creepy

Fragile Things is not a conventional short story collection. It is quite possibly an odd and approximate sketch of what the inside of Neil Gaiman's head looks like.
1 July 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE

“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.” – Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
26 June 2015

A MASTERPIECE REMASTERED

If you're a Bengali or an art house film buff of any nationality, you've most likely heard of Satyajit Ray, one of India's finest filmmakers, whose debut
26 June 2015

Rabindranath, Belgrade and My Emigration

When the Swedish Writers' Union chose me for a guest writer scholarship to Belgrade, I became excited and started to count the days.
26 June 2015

Sufia Kamal By Maleka Begum

Maleka Begum's latest book, Sufia Kamal, published by Prothoma, chronicles the life, times and works of Sufia Kamal.
21 June 2015

Novera Ahmed

THE book encompasses Novera Ahmed; the sculptor and individual through the eyes of many well known writers such as Mehboob Ahmed, Faiz Ahmed Faiz,Abdus Salam Choudhury, Rabiul Hussain, Rezaul Karim Sumon, S.M.Ali and many more.
21 June 2015

A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces

The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.
21 June 2015

Private Life of the Mughals of India (1526-1803 A.D.)

Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched
21 June 2015

A shooting star leaps to oblivion

A convincing explanation of the title of Shams Monwar's latest collection of poems is not known to this reviewer.
21 June 2015

The Island of Doctor Moreau

I bought a copy of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells several years ago from a bookstore in Dhaka New Market.
21 June 2015