• Journey on the trail of love

    Tazrian is a young writer endowed with the gift of imagination. She has revealed her creativity and adeptness in writing short stories that surely will make readers discern her distinctive style.

  • Romance, togetherness and parting

    Shamim Ahmed's previously published books of poems are Ek Fota Brishti Hotey Jodi (Shuddhashar), Je Prohor Kuashar Kachhe Rini (Shuddhashar) and Nimishei Nishiddho Tumi (Chaitanya. One can get these books by placing order with Rokomari.com).

  • An engrossing perspective on the Chittagong Hill Tracts

    Almost as soon as Bangladesh emerged as a sovereign independent country, a protracted armed struggle began in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), based on, in Tamina H. Chowdhury's construct, “the claim that the hill people of the Tracts were ethnically distinct from the majority 'Bengali' population of Bangladesh, and therefore needed special protection to preserve their traditions and customs.”

  • Kathmandu

    One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development.

  • Boimela Picks: 'Super Fun Stories that Rhyme Too!'

    Amirul Islam -- a teacher of Bengali Children's Literature is publishing a book of 6 rhyming stories, this year at the Boimela -- 'A Cat Named Katus Kutus in the Grassland'!

  • Boimela Picks: The Ghost of Pahartoli

    To the adventurous ones among you, Pahartoli may seem to be an amazing place, but there is a story of a long lost cruel jungle king sacrificing human lives by strangling them to death there, and of a noise that is believed to be the death screams of those unfortunate ones.

  • Biday Ma (Goodbye Mother)

    Boimela Picks: Cry When Sad, Shout When Mad

    Book: Biday Ma (Goodbye Mother), Author: Iqbal Khandaker, Genre: Original Author

  • Boimela Picks: A poet always leaves a mark

    Poet Syed Ali Imam did not compose any poem in the last 53 years. He had lost everything -- the entire collection of 11 years of poetry writing -- during the liberation war of 1971. Suddenly, the occasion of February 21 in 2015 stimulated him to write again.

  • Ghost Ship

    Kurt Austin, head of the numa special assignments team, is no stranger to danger, either above or below the waves.

  • Ten Cities that Made an Empire

    The final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped.