• Scientific Outlook in Education for Social Progress

    Literature is full of delicate perceptions that help fill up voids existing in our minds. Its purpose is more than pleasure; it promotes

  • Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense

    Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense are translations of two novellas, Neel Dongshon and Nishidhho Loban, by the eminent Bangladesh

  • Muktijuddha: Ojana Oddhay

    Soon after I met journalist-writer Nadeem Qadir in Dhaka, way back in 1991, I heard about his being the son of a senior officer in the

  • Unprincess Manjula Padmanabhan

    Manjula Padmanabhan's Unprincess is as feisty as its back cover suggests it to be. This petit book is a collection of three short stories,

  • If Only Job Charnock Knew!

    If only Job Charnock was prescient enough to know that some three hundred years after his death a thriller would be written based on

  • Portraits of Bengali Life in a Bygone Era

    Light, heavy, or both? History offers the reader a choice among all three, or a combination of them.

  • Still Young at Heart and Eloquent

    At 80, which he reached on May 19, Hasnat Abdul Hye can look back, and certainly feel a sense of pride, accomplishment, and joy for a productive life, where he has not only been a leading bureaucrat of the country, but also a prolific author of distinction.

  • Karagarer Rojnamcha: A Jail Diary with a Difference

    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's entire life bears testimony to his lasting love and passion for Bangladesh and Bengalis.

  • Aphorisms of Humayun Azad

    Mohammad Shafiqul Islam's book of translation, Aphorisms of Humayun Azad appears to be almost as pithy and barbed as the famous

  • Their Lives Written with Blood

    Published as early as 1978, Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor is an acclaimed fictionalization of prostitution in post-Liberation War