A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces

The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

A literary duet of humane attitudes

Admittedly, we live in a milieu that comprises numerous sprinkled rudiments which keep crisscrossing each other in our personal-social-cultural-political existence.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Contemporary Environmental Challenges in Bangladesh

Degradation of the natural environment and its impact on human lives is now visible all over the world.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

TIME, TIDE, & TALES

Modernisation is not an easy process, but neither is its depiction (or description). Laurence Wylie's Village in the Vaucluse informs us how traditional society can go gently, yet Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart accents a more brutal face.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Two Poems by Bimal Guha

Time is running out fast.
1 January 2016, 18:00 PM

FREEDOM?

The gates opened with a screech and I was out of the clinic, it's been over a month, the bright sun hit my eyes, I cringed. It was a
1 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Houri

“You are an ass and the rest of your life you will remain one,” Rocky Mirza said, condescendingly blowing a ring of smoke at him, “We
1 January 2016, 18:00 PM

China publisher pulls 'racy' Tagore poems translation

A Chinese publisher pulls a translation of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's poems after it sparked controversy for racy content.
29 December 2015, 15:32 PM

Telegrams that infuriated Nixon and Kissinger

Blood Telegram is especially recommended for readers who were adults in those tumultuous days of 1971 and had suffered mental and physical torment while fleeing from the barbaric Pakistani killers. Each chapter of the book will bring back memories and readers will be able to relate them to their personal experiences.
27 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Comments on Rehman Sobhan's book From Two Economies to Two Nations: My Journey to Bangladesh

Professor Rehman Sobhan and his publisher Daily Star Books deserve our congratulations for bringing out this collection of Professor Sobhan's writings which span a period of forty years from 1961 to 2000.
27 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Logan's Run author George Clayton Johnson dies at 86

Science-fiction writer George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the 1967 dystopian novel Logan's Run, passes away aged 86.
27 December 2015, 12:23 PM

Beginner's Guide to Nonfiction

When we talk about narrative literature, we generally mean fiction. Thrillers, fantasy, detective novels – name anything, and it's
23 December 2015, 18:00 PM

A Death in the Family

“My Struggle” is a six volume semi-autobiographical novel, or “auto-fiction”, by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. The six
13 December 2015, 18:00 PM

A Freedom Fighter's Personal Account of 1971

Shahzaman Mozumder's The Guerrilla: A Personal Memorandum of 1971, a nonfictional work launched at Hay Festival Dhaka in 2014
13 December 2015, 18:00 PM

The Lonely Woman

The sun is up in its never ending zest
11 December 2015, 18:00 PM

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.
11 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Songs of Freedom

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.
11 December 2015, 18:00 PM

OPINION: Rokeya’s tolerance and magnanimity

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.
9 December 2015, 05:06 AM

A Testimony to Love's Perpetual Power

In terms of love stories, The Sharp Hook of Love deserves an intensive perusal. The book tells an engrossing story about the 12th...
6 December 2015, 18:00 PM

A quest for self-discovery and knowledge

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.
6 December 2015, 18:00 PM