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The Shelf
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Books & Literature
The Tree
Farah saw the tree as soon as she entered the new apartment. Her parents had come to Dhaka after the Partition of India in 1947.
19 June 2015
EDITOR’S NOTE
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” (Albert Einstein)
19 June 2015
The museum of found memories
As her whole universe
19 June 2015
Hard times revisited
For three impressive London women born in Bangladesh there were cheering results in the UK election.
19 June 2015
The Children Act By Ian McEwan
This week, and the following, we will feature the work of two Booker Prize winning novelists, Ian McEwan and Richard Flanagan.
14 June 2015
The Goa Connection By Bappaditya Chakravarty
Throw into a pot cooking up fiction a dash of intrigue, a pinch of cloak-and-dagger and gore, a soupcon of sleight-of-hand connection of the dots, a hint of James Bond-like characters and not-so-femme fatales, and a potpourri of villains, and you end up with a…thriller!
14 June 2015
Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India By Eugenia W. Herbert
In this deeply researched yet wonderfully readable history of Britain's 'garden imperialism' in India, Eugenia W. Herbert draws on a wealth of personal accounts and period illustrations, many of them little known, to track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance through colonial gardens.
14 June 2015
Target 3 Billion
Target 3 Billion: Innovative Solutions Towards Sustainable Development talks about the 3 billion people across the globe who live in villages and are often deprived of basic resources.
14 June 2015
Wavell and the Dying Days of the Raj
A critical and historical understanding of Lord Archibald Wavell's viceroyalty is important for understanding the rational dynamics amongst the three leading political actors of that time, the British, the Hindus, and the Muslims.
14 June 2015
Rendezvous with Poet Kamal Chowdhury
Kamal Chowdhury enjoys a special place in contemporary Bengali poetry.
12 June 2015
The Black Beauty
She is a black beauty; I mean black.
12 June 2015
The Story of Chains
Driven by lust and greed,
12 June 2015
For a New Poem
While I thought deeply of the spring, the winter came
12 June 2015
EDITOR’S NOTE
In today's SLR, readers are treated to an up-close and personal look at renowned, award-winning poet Kamal Chowdhury.
12 June 2015
Khapra Ward Hotyakando 1950
Matiur Rahman's Khapra Ward Hotyakando 1950 is a record of political history, quite unknown to many of us. De facto, the
7 June 2015
Rimbauder Kobita: Trilingual Edition
The trilingual edition of Rimbaud, Rimbauder Kobita (Poems of Rimbaud), with an introduction and translation by Binoy Barman, can be
7 June 2015
'O United Nations'
Sinha M. A. Sayeed, a Bangladeshi writer of global understanding and standing, has written a book titled 'O United Nations' published by
7 June 2015
Crafted by History
Going through Crafted by History: An Interpretive Review of the Emergence of Bangladesh was a perplexing experience in view of the
7 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.
7 June 2015
Love, Again
Ajanta has not seen her mother in ten years. During her last visit to Dhaka, Amma had suggested that Ajanta should consider getting married again.
5 June 2015