• Comments on Rehman Sobhan's book From Two Economies to Two Nations: My Journey to Bangladesh

    Professor Rehman Sobhan and his publisher Daily Star Books deserve our congratulations for bringing out this collection of Professor Sobhan's writings which span a period of forty years from 1961 to 2000.

  • A Death in the Family

    “My Struggle” is a six volume semi-autobiographical novel, or “auto-fiction”, by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. The six

  • A Freedom Fighter's Personal Account of 1971

    Shahzaman Mozumder's The Guerrilla: A Personal Memorandum of 1971, a nonfictional work launched at Hay Festival Dhaka in 2014

  • A quest for self-discovery and knowledge

    A strong will power is essential for every individual to reach the destiny of life. Santiago through his journey learns the language of the universe and discovers that we all are parts of the universal soul.

  • THOUGHTS ON A TROUBLING SECTOR

    Several of the writers discuss at varying lengths the gap that exists between theory and practice in general (including in the advanced countries), as well as the imperative of matching practice to the reality of social structure, political culture and form of government, cultural norms and traditions, and economic conditions of a particular country.

  • A Testimony to Love's Perpetual Power

    In terms of love stories, The Sharp Hook of Love deserves an intensive perusal. The book tells an engrossing story about the 12th...

  • A Monograph on Mystic Musings

    Rumi glorified wisdom and placed it on top of power and pomp. Rumi's love for wisdom with dignity, rather than for wealth......

  • Humanity enslaved by the inhumane

    This anti-slavery novel .... is believed to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.

  • No, it's not Dial M for Murder

    Writers Tom Watson and Martin Hickman couldn't have selected a better title than Dial M for Murdoch, borrowing from Alfred Hitchcock,

  • The Horror! The Horror!

    IN 1975, when Chinua Achebe accused Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and harshly deprecated the image of Africa as portrayed in...