FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

Sitting in the armchair on his fourth floor balcony, the young master awaited his morning tea.

The career of the British concert pianist James Rhodes has been anything but conventional. He was more or less self-taught until he was 13.

Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.

The book under review, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan, received the Man Booker Prize in 2014. The award

The book's title is eye-catching all right. Gresham's Law Syndrome and Beyond: An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy, written

Today's children are familiar with the Harry Potter and Twilight series but once upon a time, Little Louis – the six-year-old son of Louis XIV of France was lucky enough to have the first collection of 124 Selected Fables of Jean de La Fontaine dedicated to him. La Fontaine and Fables are almost synonymous in French literature.

When the people left the room, wisps of their souls hovered around indefinitely, sniffing at corners and wafting around the legs of chairs.

SLR returns after a two-week hiatus, opening the door to Jean de La Fontaine's world of fables and taking a fictitious fleeting glimpse at what lies beyond our voices, our vision.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My heart has no other desire

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.

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