FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

When we talk about narrative literature, we generally mean fiction. Thrillers, fantasy, detective novels – name anything, and it's

“My Struggle” is a six volume semi-autobiographical novel, or “auto-fiction”, by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. The six

Shahzaman Mozumder's The Guerrilla: A Personal Memorandum of 1971, a nonfictional work launched at Hay Festival Dhaka in 2014

The sun is up in its never ending zest

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.

Our equipment consisted mostly of small arms. We had virtually no indirect fire support (artillery). Even the mortars we had in our sector were without sights.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) pursued her sustained literary, educational and political activism in the face of stiff social opposition from critics unwilling to accept her gender egalitarian messages positively.

In terms of love stories, The Sharp Hook of Love deserves an intensive perusal. The book tells an engrossing story about the 12th...

A strong will power is essential for every individual to reach the destiny of life. Santiago through his journey learns the language of the universe and discovers that we all are parts of the universal soul.

Several of the writers discuss at varying lengths the gap that exists between theory and practice in general (including in the advanced countries), as well as the imperative of matching practice to the reality of social structure, political culture and form of government, cultural norms and traditions, and economic conditions of a particular country.

War is a sky shattering fierce roar of clouds, quick footsteps

In 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet promoting atheism. This wasn't his first offence.

Nirupama Subramaniam meets writer and historian Ramachandra Guha on the sunlit balcony of the authors lounge at the Bangla Academy during the Dhaka Lit Fest. Despite the weight of being a public intellectual and academic, there is a lightness about his presence. The author of India before Gandhi (Penguin; 2013) and Patriots and Partisans (Penguin; 2012) speaks at a fast pace, stabbing the air to make a point, as though he feels each word deeply. It is almost like listening to a story.

Rumi glorified wisdom and placed it on top of power and pomp. Rumi's love for wisdom with dignity, rather than for wealth......

This anti-slavery novel .... is believed to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.

Writers Tom Watson and Martin Hickman couldn't have selected a better title than Dial M for Murdoch, borrowing from Alfred Hitchcock,

“Do you believe in love? That love exists? Between a man and a woman?”

Every Bohemian fairytale I have read starts off with a man who has too many kids and too little money; money which he impulse buys a rope with...

We all have gone through that horrible phase of curling up in our beds and crying over the deaths of our favourite fictional characters...

Franz Kafka is an icon of 20th century literature. The Metamorphosis, a novella written in 1912, is considered as his seminal work of fiction.