• A study on corporate social responsibility

    To use a hackneyed expression, times change. As has for the world of corporate business practice.

  • 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?

  • Omni Books

    Derelict is fascinating story of Sudhir Sebastian Rosario, a “native” Christian who was born in the village of Kanakpur, Noakhali but who goes to High School in Pahartali, where his father works for the Bengal Assam Railway.

  • A Deathless Life: Tagore and the “Daughters of Jorasanko”

    Chakravarti's vision of the pain and beauty of desolation and loss, the wrench of memories and “the sense of a world slipping away” is masterly.

  • A look at communalism and fundamentalism in society

    He points out quite correctly that communalism and fundamentalism have always been two important facets of social history and have in their own way influenced the evolution of culture and civilization.

  • Corrigendum

    In an article of Book Reviews page titled “Valiant freedom fighters of the soil” published on September 26, 2016, the word should have read “Melaghor”, instead of “Khelaghor”.

  • Sriti Bisritir Ami

    The author goes on a time travel through the streets and alleys of his mind in search of the golden moments as he went on his journey of life.

  • Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Works

    This book includes some sketches by Hans Christian Andersen and surprisingly, there is an illustration of some dancing dervishes which reminds of a philosophical trajectory marked by the mystic thoughts of Jalal Uddin Rumi, the most famous Persian scholar of all times.

  • Essays on Bengal of a Bygone Era

    Essays on Bengal of a Bygone Era

    Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar was at the forefront of providing educational opportunities for the Bengalis. He wrote, according to Chandicharan Bandopaddhay, 52 books, of which 30 were in Bangla, 17 in Sanskrit, and 5 in English. He was also in service of the British government. Allegations were rife that he used his position and closeness and influence with the British to push for his own books to be incorporated as school textbooks.

  • The Cosmic Detective: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe

    This slim primer on Cosmology for general public is an Official Product of International Year of Astronomy 2009, declared by the UN