• Small book on a large life

    "Bathare mor modhur koro'' is a book on Aninda Majumder Bappu, a successful banker, was the eldest son of Dr. Pratima Paul Majumder.

  • A never ending journey through history

    THE first impression I have of this book is that it is simply marvelous in its execution, language and content. Normally we expect travel books to be a chronology of events in the writer's process of travel, but “Right to Passage”is not simply a travel book.

  • The Henna Tree and its Paste

    YOU can get away from Bangladesh, but Bangladesh can never get away from you. That is, if you are a part of the first generation Bangladeshi diaspora, in whatever part of the world you are in, whether as a temporary sojourner or as a permanent resident.

  • Migrant workers are just not numbers...

    About a year and a half ago, Shahidul Alam told me about how he wanted to do a project on migrant workers going

  • The story of an invincible fisherman

    The Old Man and the Sea is one of the masterpieces by Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961). Ernest Hemingway is an

  • A book of unsolved mysteries

    Atrick Modiano, the French language novelist and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature,is an enigmatic

  • Delightful deliberations on Dhaka

    Any book or journal on or about Dhaka would immediately draw the attention and interest of people who were born in this 'impossible' city and who continue to live here despite the daily dose of swearing and grumbling.

  • A dream-come-true for Torontonian Bengali Literati

    It is not the story of any Scrutiny or of any F R Leavis or L C Knights. It is actually the truth about BLRC Literary Journal, published by Bengali Literary Resource Centre, Canada, hitting the stand.

  • A girl's struggle against child marriage

    Love in Teary Eyes' is a novel by Shahazada Basunia depicting the love story of Aurnob and adolescent Tripti who revolted against the social taboo of child marriage.

  • BRAC through insider lenses

    DRIVING Development: A Story of BRAC's Evolution and Effectiveness, Mahabub Hossain, Shib Narayan Kairy, Abdul Bayes, eds., United Press Limited.