Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing

The rain stopped quite a while ago but one felt the remnants of it dropping from the trees and the tall buildings.

I can't sit still, I love to talk, and reading and writing are my favourite activities. So when I first heard about Vipassana – a ten-day silent meditation retreat – I thought it sounded torturous.

“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Sitting in the armchair on his fourth floor balcony, the young master awaited his morning tea.

The career of the British concert pianist James Rhodes has been anything but conventional. He was more or less self-taught until he was 13.

SLR returns after a two-week hiatus, opening the door to Jean de La Fontaine's world of fables and taking a fictitious fleeting glimpse at what lies beyond our voices, our vision.

Today's children are familiar with the Harry Potter and Twilight series but once upon a time, Little Louis – the six-year-old son of Louis XIV of France was lucky enough to have the first collection of 124 Selected Fables of Jean de La Fontaine dedicated to him. La Fontaine and Fables are almost synonymous in French literature.

When the people left the room, wisps of their souls hovered around indefinitely, sniffing at corners and wafting around the legs of chairs.

Copies of Harper Lee's eagerly awaited novel Go Set a Watchman are now on sale in UK bookshops, where it was released at midnight.

My heart has no other desire

Today's SLR starts with the story of a woman who became a mother, fell into being a maid, all in the hope of being…a woman.

She is dark complexioned, a little on the skinny side and of medium height.

Today we are heading to Thekkady. The Periyar forests of Thekkady has one of the best wildlife reserves and spice plantations, as well as treks and walks for the adventurous.

“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.” – Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown

If you're a Bengali or an art house film buff of any nationality, you've most likely heard of Satyajit Ray, one of India's finest filmmakers, whose debut

When the Swedish Writers' Union chose me for a guest writer scholarship to Belgrade, I became excited and started to count the days.

For three impressive London women born in Bangladesh there were cheering results in the UK election.

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)