Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew

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).

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.”

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'!

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.

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

Travel stories have become a failsafe story-writing hack in recent times – the second cheesiest plot structure next to the main character suffering from cancer.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Schools are burnt, houses torched

An unexpected visitor suddenly entered into my office. I stood up from my chair as soon as I saw him. He was an important political

‘Runaway' is the latest of Alice Munro's collection of short stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives and

The "Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2016" is announced in seven categories ahead of the Ekushey Book Fair.

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

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

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

We all are confined,