BOOK REVIEW: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / Revisiting forgotten babyhood days with ‘Babuibela’
4 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
Tahmima Anam’s ‘The Startup Wife’ arrives at Baatighar
30 June 2021, 13:48 PM
Book Reviews
New online journal ‘Kitchen Sink’ promises an accessible platform for poets
30 June 2021, 12:13 PM
Book Reviews
Is Netflix’s ‘Ray’ worth the watch?
27 June 2021, 12:42 PM
Book Reviews
FROM ELITA’S BOOKSHELF / The book that I would like to read
25 June 2021, 08:38 AM
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READ ONLINE: INTERVIEW / Unpacking Bangladesh’s obsession with Bollywood
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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REVIEW: SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH / Colm Tóibín takes Henry James for a ride
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: AUTOFICTION / Who is Ayad Akhtar?
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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‘The Moment of Lift’: Melinda Gates and the developing world’s untapped female-fuel
23 June 2021, 09:04 AM
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Ann Patchett’s ‘The Dutch House’: On branches of memories and pain
21 June 2021, 13:39 PM
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Novera Ahmed
THE book encompasses Novera Ahmed; the sculptor and individual through the eyes of many well known writers such as Mehboob Ahmed, Faiz Ahmed Faiz,Abdus Salam Choudhury, Rabiul Hussain, Rezaul Karim Sumon, S.M.Ali and many more.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces
The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.
21 June 2015, 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
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A shooting star leaps to oblivion
A convincing explanation of the title of Shams Monwar's latest collection of poems is not known to this reviewer.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Island of Doctor Moreau
I bought a copy of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells several years ago from a bookstore in Dhaka New Market.
21 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Target 3 Billion
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.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Wavell and the Dying Days of the Raj
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.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Children Act By Ian McEwan
This week, and the following, we will feature the work of two Booker Prize winning novelists, Ian McEwan and Richard Flanagan.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
The Goa Connection By Bappaditya Chakravarty
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!
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India By Eugenia W. Herbert
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.
14 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Khapra Ward Hotyakando 1950
Matiur Rahman's Khapra Ward Hotyakando 1950 is a record of political history, quite unknown to many of us. De facto, the
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Rimbauder Kobita: Trilingual Edition
The trilingual edition of Rimbaud, Rimbauder Kobita (Poems of Rimbaud), with an introduction and translation by Binoy Barman, can be
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
'O United Nations'
Sinha M. A. Sayeed, a Bangladeshi writer of global understanding and standing, has written a book titled 'O United Nations' published by
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Crafted by History
Going through Crafted by History: An Interpretive Review of the Emergence of Bangladesh was a perplexing experience in view of the
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A shooting star leaps to oblivion
A convincing explanation of the title of Shams Monwar’s latest collection of poems is not known to this reviewer.
7 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Shiksha
Although most of us know Nurul Islam Nahid as the minister of the Ministry of Education, very few know that he always had a knack
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Manabjameen: Untilled Earth
Set in the troubled last quarter of the twentieth century, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Manabjameen is an expansive saga that charts the
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Yoga for Dummies
This revised edition of Yoga For Dummies provides 25 percent new and revised content, presenting new concepts for the yoga
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
In this age of post 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Johnny Depp fans, very few people are unaware of Washington Irving's tale of fear and
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Decoding Rooppur...
In the opening, the book printed by Madhyama Media and Publications points to the fact that publishers in this country – though slowly but are finally becoming skilled. Hat’s off to the publisher.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM