After wrapping up my second novel, I realized something; a truth of absolute importance -- that it takes more or less two years to

"Do you have any idea how much I missed you?"

Brains melting. Tempers flaring. Fresh fruits diced and juiced. The dread of term exams. The anticipation of a new budget. Welcoming

Are you a true Superman fan? If you have not read The Death of Superman, I believe the answer is a NO.

Although most of us know Nurul Islam Nahid as the minister of the Ministry of Education, very few know that he always had a knack

Set in the troubled last quarter of the twentieth century, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Manabjameen is an expansive saga that charts the

This revised edition of Yoga For Dummies provides 25 percent new and revised content, presenting new concepts for the yoga

In this age of post 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Johnny Depp fans, very few people are unaware of Washington Irving's tale of fear and

In Bangladesh, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880 – 1932) is highly regarded as a literary, cultural icon and reformist writer who

A convergence of religions through Dharma, not swords. Friendship as an expression of political resistance.

I am up early today. It's a brilliant morning and I can hear the chirping of new birds.

While I'm editing my novel, I find it helpful to read something entirely unrelated. Young Romantics by Daisy Hay, subtitled The Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives (Bloomsbury 2011), tells the story of a group of radical English writers over a period of a dozen years in the early nineteenth century.

The wind builds up its frenzy. The clouds rob my sky.

The May sun scorches Krishnachuras blaze The mind is moribund.

You have gifted me rainy day's First Kadam flower, O my beloved I offer you songs of monsoon rain.

People my age are one of the last few generations that grew up in Dhaka without twenty-four hour television or the Internet. We would read.

They had set sail in hope in dinghies or rickety boats,

I would love to be proven wrong that day,

This week Shahpar Selim does a double take on a childhood favourite, reminding us that while we are ‘LOLing’ at the world around us (or in our computers), we must remember to laugh at ourselves too.

Grace MacBride and the other five partners of her software company, Monkeewrench, have created a new game titled “Serial Killer Detective'' where the good guy always catches the bad guy.