A girl's passage from tears to happiness

JANE Eyre is one of the finest novels by the English fictionist Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). This novel tells us the story of an orphan
12 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Job-Makers in the making

AUTHOR: MD. SABUR KHAN
12 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Penetrative Tales on Social Aberrations

As far as the history of modern Bengali literature is concerned, references to Abul Mansur Ahmed's name come up as an inevitable
5 March 2017, 19:43 PM

Men-Women Relationship in Nineteenth Century Bengal

The story begins like this. Dr. Bilkis Rahman read the autobiography of noted author Mir Mosharraf Hossain and discovered a rosy
5 March 2017, 19:38 PM

Of Paths and Walkers

“WHAT is great in the realm of art might not be equally acceptable in the realm of morality; similarly what morality finds laudable
5 March 2017, 19:37 PM

New Books

Payraband kahini is a book of Puthi Sahitto (a special genre of literature written in a mixed vocabulary drawn from Bangla, Arabic,
5 March 2017, 19:31 PM

Aphorisms of Humayun Azad

Aphorisms of Humayun Azad is the translation of Humayun Azad's groundbreaking book Prabachanguchchha. The
26 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Tabuo Bristy Asuk

'Tabuo Bristy Asuk' of Shafiqul Islam is a book of poetry. It was published in February, 2007. This book consists of 41
26 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Search for Self

Jhumpa Lahiri, a well-known voice of diasporic literature and very popular among the contemporary writers of world
26 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Poisoned Wells: A Tender Tale of Love and Death

when the well is dry,we learn the worth of water”—Benjamin Franklin
26 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Tumi Bristimoyee

Tumi Bristimoyee is a romantic novel by Shahalam Saju (Journalist and writer).
19 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Ornament of Human Race

Manob Bongsher Alonker (Ornament of Human Race: A Long Poem) is a book of poetry by Dr. Mahfuz Parvez and it is published by Balaka Publication.
19 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Hitting at our society's missing rectitude

Most of us in our apparently tranquil society are driven by an overriding middle-classism: complacent inside personal existence with an all-going-awesome mindset.
19 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Where fact and fiction interact

When fact meets fiction regarding a person, or place, or event in one story, the line between the two usually gets blurred, and, more often than not, it becomes difficult to ascertain when and where fact segues into fiction, and vice versa.
19 February 2017, 18:00 PM

“Dirghosthayee Soksova”

“Dirghosthayee Soksova” is a book of poetry of Emran Mahfuz (Journalist, writer and researcher), published by Oitijjhya Publication.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Passion for Bengali, admiration for a father!

Acollection of essays where a son recollects the impact of his father on his life, thought, ideology and vision in life – Megh o Babar Kichu Kotha may appear to be just that at a cursory look.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

REVIEWED BY DR. ABDULLAH SHIBLI

Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian novelist and poet,is known around the world for his novel “Lolita”, the story of a sordid affair between a middle-aged college professor and a 14 year old nymphet.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Seeing femme fatale with a humane lens

Paulo Coelho's latest bestseller 'The Spy' is different from his characteristic genre of spiritual quests and journeys. In a sense, 'The Spy' is the story of a woman's journey, but more than that, it is the story of legendary Mata Hari retold as "history told from below", by a woman with a feminist voice.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

'When Money Stops Talking and Starts Working!'

Getting back to consciousness after three days in a hospital in New York, multimillionaire Delwar Hossain looks for his son Tanjil with a mysterious smile on his face. As Tanjil enters the cabin, he knows right away that there is something behind that smile.
7 February 2017, 05:44 AM

'A Study Tour through the Life of a Middleclass Boy.'

Being a poet myself, I know how difficult it is to fit an entire story in a few words and two lines. Not only did Kingkor Ehsan do exactly that in the novel, but also created the poems, broke them into pieces and turned them to stories again.
6 February 2017, 06:52 AM