• Story of a subcontinent unchanged

    Bollywood has implemented the idea in my mind that the world of Sharatchandra Chattapadhay is one big glittering film set. Dancers swish and swirl on marbled floors, surrounded by music, hookah and intoxicants.

  • Contours of passion in poetic expression

    It was undoubtedly a challenging task and, I must say, it has been accomplished properly, by virtue of the tremendous confidence, acumenand ability of the vested quarter.

  • CAMBODIA IN A SOLDIER'S VIEW

    It was no one-off that the sword and the pen ran parallel. As a subaltern Sir Winston Churchill hardly twenty three made his maiden venture into the world of literature,” The Story of Malakand Field Force” published in 1897.

  • The Mystifying Muslin

    As the title suggests, Saiful Islam's book 'Muslin: Our Story' is a detailed study of a traditional craft. However, it is considerably more than that, as he uses the subject to elicit a much broader cultural history of Bengal.

  • An Illuminating Book on Nazrul

    The national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam was a versatile genius who had left his indelible marks in all branches of Bangla literature and culture.

  • The Fall of the Ottomans

    The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the greatest epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Rogan

  • Mad Genius: A Manifesto for Entrepreneurs

    This is a manifesto about ideas. Big ideas, small ideas, and outlandish ideas. Ideas that innovate, ideas that disrupt markets, and especially ideas that irritate. More than ideas, though, Mad Genius is about how ideas are born and the role they play in entrepreneurial thinking.

  • Tale of successful individuals and communities

    It has always seemed to me that nonfiction books are not as popular in this part of the world as their fiction counterparts. By this I mean both how nonfiction does not seem to be as visible in bookstores, and also how there does not seem to be that many people writing nonfiction.

  • A Black Diamond and Shayista Khan

    Ihave always been intrigued by the historical novel. Some of it is composed around real historical figures, events, and locations,

  • When expectations are limitless

    Whenever I lay buried in a fat volume written by a long 'extinct' writer, the great minds of today often ask me, “Why are you reading that?