The life journey of a theatre actress

Binodini is the life story adapted from her two autobiographical notes titled My Story and My Stage Acting.
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Wisdom of a Revivalist

Sri Chaitanya Deb (1486-1533) was an interesting and charismatic personality of the 16th century in Bengal, Assam, Orissa and across the eastern India.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Tribute to a scholar

They remember him as a loving husband and as an inspiring father. Other articles are written by his relatives, colleagues, students and friends in great admiration. In their portrayal, Prof. Rehman is illustrated as an exceptionally gentle, compassionate, amiable and vastly knowledgeable person.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Story of Quarter Century of Development

When Azizur Rahman Khan writes something on the economy of Bangladesh, one needs to take note.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Still struggling after 1971…..

MR Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM

A Fugitive's Pendulous Mind

This monumental novel speaks of the phenomena that can persuade people to commit crimes, the inner torment that forces people to burn with a feeling of guilt and the ultimate expiation offenders go through while playing cat and mouse with their conscience.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM

The Lighter Side of History

I am not sure if I can call it the lighter side of history, or, more appropriately, history off the beaten track...
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Flash Point

An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover. Just before this takeover..
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM

My Days in National Book Centre

Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM

From Subjective Impulses to Universal Echoes

This is how I sent a message through a social network to poet Nahid Kaiser expressing my eagerness to read her latest book...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM

On the eve of India partition…

To me, Aynakhal Tea Estate is a metaphor for a world unknown to all but only those who work there: the British Mangers and Assistant Managers, the Bengali Clerks known as Babus, and the workers called Coolies. This world is a lot different from the one we live in; for it has its own rules, its own code of conduct, and challenges and dangers ...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Private Life of the Mughals of India (1526-1803 A.D.)

Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Tale of poverty and poetry

DR. Mohit Kamal, a renowned psychiatrist, mostly known for his psychological novels, is a patron of literature. He has authored a novel titled Dukhu out of his great admiration of the personal and literary life of our national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam.
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Aesthetics in Poetic Pandemonium

Depoeticized Rhapsody is, oxymoronically speaking, a poetic endeavor that aims at delineating the constantly changing modern lifestyle. Justifiably enough,
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Continual Quest for Knowing and Understanding Bangladesh

Reviewing a book that traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages has been, for me, a formidable experience, especially since a great deal of material has been covered within those pages. Almost as a fiendish twist, for a fairly lengthy portion, the book is as much a Reader's Digest version of Indian history as it is of Bangladesh. However, when one considers the subtitle of the book, A Subcontinental Civilisation, one can acknowledge
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM

The travails of travels

PERHAPS the ghorkuno Bengalis were introduced to real life travelstories first by Rabindranath Tagore and next by Syed Mujtaba Ali (Deshe Bideshe).
13 March 2016, 18:00 PM

A Navigator's Voyage to Enlightenment

Robinson Crusoe is one of the earliest works of fiction in English literature. In this book Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) illustrated...
13 March 2016, 18:00 PM

My Struggle: Book Two

It offers details of his relationship with his wife and two daughters, and an analysis of people in different social settings --for example at birthday parties where he hangs out and at his children's daycare center's meetings.
13 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Finding home halfway across the world

The present book is not only a fascinating read, but also a collection of testimonies that fills in a gap in the historical narrative of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh.
6 March 2016, 18:00 PM