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.

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” (Albert Einstein)

As her whole universe

This week, and the following, we will feature the work of two Booker Prize winning novelists, Ian McEwan and Richard Flanagan.

Throw into a pot cooking up fiction a dash of intrigue, a pinch of cloak-and-dagger and gore, a soupcon of sleight-of-hand connection of the dots, a hint of James Bond-like characters and not-so-femme fatales, and a potpourri of villains, and you end up with a…thriller!

In this deeply researched yet wonderfully readable history of Britain's 'garden imperialism' in India, Eugenia W. Herbert draws on a wealth of personal accounts and period illustrations, many of them little known, to track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance through colonial gardens.

Target 3 Billion: Innovative Solutions Towards Sustainable Development talks about the 3 billion people across the globe who live in villages and are often deprived of basic resources.

A critical and historical understanding of Lord Archibald Wavell's viceroyalty is important for understanding the rational dynamics amongst the three leading political actors of that time, the British, the Hindus, and the Muslims.

Kamal Chowdhury enjoys a special place in contemporary Bengali poetry.

She is a black beauty; I mean black.

Driven by lust and greed,

While I thought deeply of the spring, the winter came

In today's SLR, readers are treated to an up-close and personal look at renowned, award-winning poet Kamal Chowdhury.

Matiur Rahman's Khapra Ward Hotyakando 1950 is a record of political history, quite unknown to many of us. De facto, the

The trilingual edition of Rimbaud, Rimbauder Kobita (Poems of Rimbaud), with an introduction and translation by Binoy Barman, can be

Sinha M. A. Sayeed, a Bangladeshi writer of global understanding and standing, has written a book titled 'O United Nations' published by

Going through Crafted by History: An Interpretive Review of the Emergence of Bangladesh was a perplexing experience in view of the

A convincing explanation of the title of Shams Monwar’s latest collection of poems is not known to this reviewer.

Ajanta has not seen her mother in ten years. During her last visit to Dhaka, Amma had suggested that Ajanta should consider getting married again.

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