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?

Short stories by Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, are a veritable delight to read.

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

I was introduced to the Summoner series in a time when I was craving to read and delve into a new world with very little time to spare.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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

Abook in memory of the country s most loved teacher. DrKalam is often remembered as a teacher par excellence, whose words, thoughts

Atale of Two Cities is one of the greatest novels by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). It tells the story of the French Revolution that had a

Of the few books written in English on the liberation struggle and the war of independence of Bangladesh, some cover either a specific

The bald-headed Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada says to Andrea Sachs, “You think this is just a magazine?

An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.

Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover.

It was more than 15O years from now that Captain Nemo travelled across the seven seas in his submarine named Nautilus when no one could think of an underwater ship in his wildest dream.

This book traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages. History of Bangladesh: A Subcontinental Civilisation has been written over a period of twenty two years by Abul Maal A. Muhith, a former high civil servant and currently Finance Minister of Bangladesh.