FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

First, haven’t read a novella that sprang out of pure chance and curiosity as the Search Warrant, and second, it was read mainly because of its author - Patrick Modiano, recipient of 2014 Nobel Prize and no other reason. The story is simple but amusingly crafted.

The collection of poems, named Retrospect peruses not only the writer’s thrive to create but speaks of his imagination and belief. His life and thoughts, according to him, was shown and shaped by no other than the late S.M. Sultan. However, a collection of 39 poems by Shams Monwar speaks of a dreamer who has picked up the pen for re-discovering himself and the reality that surrounds him.

THERE are several interesting stories in this book: there's Minka's story (a fantasy she had started writing as a young girl); there's the story of her life she's recounting to Sage, and there's Josef's story (also narrated to Sage).

Taking up C. G. Jung's book “Memories, Dreams, Reflections” was perfect in the bitter cold weather that we were passing in Massachusetts last week. For voracious readers like myself, it was like finding life with a new light by a great thinker. It is heavy reading and one needs to reflect on each piece of

THIS is a first in Bangladesh. A published anthology of the memoirs of 43 career diplomats of Bangladesh, that is. As far as I am aware, a few career diplomats have composed their memoirs and gotten them published as individual efforts, including one that is almost as voluminous as the combined efforts of the 43 that have been compressed into this one omnibus. And therein can be identified an immediate problem that accompanies Serving the