The alarm rings at the crack of dawn, but my body and mind fight.

Sadaat Hasan Manto, one of the most prolific short-story writers to emerge from the subcontinent, described the murder of a 'Muslim bastard' during the riots in his most famous short story 'Toba Tek Singh'.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. (Khalil Gibran)

I congratulate Prof. Dr. Raunaq Jahan for her book Political Parties in Bangladesh- Challenges of Democratization. I would also like to

GENDER and Development by Janet Momsen (2009) is an empirical study considering position of women in developing countries.

NORTHANGER Abbey is a novel, written by Jane Austen. The story is set in early 19th Century England.

One day in November 1986, Dr Shamim Khan – friend, colleague, and at that time an assistant professor of International Relations at

Why have I kept silent, held back so long,

Today's SLR is dedicated to the German novelist, social critic, artist and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass who died on 13th April. He was 87.

Kaavya Viswanathan's novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life” is a prime example of plagiarism.

ZIA Haider's 'In The Light of What We Know' is a recent addition to the long list of post colonial literature by a host of post colonial authors.

HARDLY travelogues are written in English here in book form that deserves a review. But Travel Adventures in the Balkans and Tibet is a different

IN my review (TDS, April 7, 2012) of Dr. Abdul Matin's book on Rooppur and the Power Crisis I had stated that books on technical

I wake up to the chirping of birds. So many different types of sounds! There are beautiful Koels singing on the tree tops.

Karl Marx once said, “Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”

Once in Darjeeling, when I was 12 years old, I remember standing in front of a smallish bank, staring at all the flowers neatly planted in rows.

Cristina Henriquez's latest novel The Book of Unknown Americans is a tale of diaspora, dreams and desperation. In literary terms, diaspora refers to the dispersion of people from their motherland to other countries for economic, political, religious or other reasons.

The world of mass media in Bangladesh is very rich. But as in other places, it also has many challenges and opportunities.

North and South, a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, was published in 1855. The novel is set in the nineteenth century industrial Britain, in a township named Milton, similar to the manufacturing center of England, Manchester.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell or simply known as Mrs. Gaskell was born on the 29th of September in 1810 in Chelsea.