BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Sports journalism and Bangladesh
9 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
22 June 2023, 08:16 AM
Books & Literature
Professing criticism: On Naeem Mohaiemen's new book of essays
8 June 2023, 06:59 AM
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Flesh in ruins
18 May 2023, 07:33 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Family of feelings: Iffat Nawaz's 'Shurjo's Clan'
26 January 2023, 10:20 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’
8 December 2022, 04:00 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
1 December 2022, 12:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: A relative’s perspective on an enigmatic hero
17 November 2022, 05:46 AM
Books & Literature
Nothing matters, but Albert Camus’s 'The Stranger' does
7 November 2022, 11:42 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Life in modern Dhaka as portrayed in 'A Strange Coincidence and Other Stories'
3 November 2022, 12:00 PM
Books & Literature
Debating the Ancient and Present: A Conversation with Romila Thapar, Edited by Sasanka Perera
The 'Past' decides the 'Present' in India. The past is an everyday word, in politics, academics, culture and science in India.
23 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Demcratization, Author: Rounaq Jahan
The book Political Parties in Bangladesh Challenges of Democratization written by Professor Dr. Rounaq Jahan and published by the Prothoma Prokashon is indeed a timely endeavor.
23 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Sreesree Chaitannya Charitamrita Avidhan: A Lexicon of Medieval Bengali Thesaurus
Sreesree Chaitannya Charitamrita Avidhan is a lexicon enriched with the words and phrases found in the maxims and discourses propagated by Sree Chaitannya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534), a highly venerated monk and theologian in the history of the Indian Subcontinent.
23 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Celebration & Other Stories
The history of Bangla literature dates back to the seventh century. The richness of this literature cannot be understood by the world
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Women, Land and Power in Bangladesh: Jhagrapur Revisited
ENNEKE Arens has undertaken a study of a village called Baniapukur (which she has called Jhagrapur as a pseudonym) in two phases:
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Preservation of Endangered Languages of Bangladesh LAHRA
Let me start this book review with three definitions: Ethnography is the study of cultures through close observation, reading and interpretation. Literature has been applied to the imaginative works of poetry and prose. Linguistics is the scientific study of languages, language form, language meaning and language in context.
9 August 2015, 18:00 PM
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
THIS book was the Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on
9 August 2015, 18:00 PM
MODI Demystified
NARENDRA Modi is one of the most controversial politicians dominating contemporary India. Never before have we had a leader like him,
9 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Works
Hans Christian Andersen, an immortal author hailing from Denmark, was the ugly duckling of his own story—“so gawky and peculiar”. In the first part of this compassionate bookHans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Works, the author, Professor Dr. Elias Bredsdorff, traces the story of Andersen's extraordinary life and shows how often his tales grew out of his own experience.
9 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Ekattorer Ekattor Nari
By profession Supa Sadia is Public Relations Officer of Stamford University Bangladesh. But her passion is writing. Ekattorer Ekattor
9 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Go Set a Watchman
After reading Harper Lee's now famous sequel (or prequel) to Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, I think the first thing one notices is the mass confusion in Scout, now a 26-year old living in New York and coming back to Maycomb to discover and grapple with the bigotry inherent in the people of her hometown barring none,
2 August 2015, 18:34 PM
Dreams of Dhaka
The most difficult book to review is the one written by one's brother, and especially if he is the elder one. It would be difficult to satisfy him. So, if you find this review 'too sweetened' don't blame me and you may stop reading it right away.
2 August 2015, 18:32 PM
The Time Machine
Any discourse on science fictions will remain broadly unaccomplished if there is no reference to Herbert George Wells or H. G. Wells (1866—1946). He was
2 August 2015, 18:29 PM
Game Of Thrones
It is cold in the North. Lord Stark is dead and Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne. The seven kingdoms rise up in arms as contenders vie for the throne. The Starks
2 August 2015, 18:25 PM
Be Careful What You Wish For
The book begins with a shocker: Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is nearly killed in an automobile accident; his friend Bruno does die. It seems Sebastian was
2 August 2015, 18:22 PM
Accelerate (XL R8)
Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The book under review, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan, received the Man Booker Prize in 2014. The award
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Gresham's Law Syndrome and Beyond:An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy
The book's title is eye-catching all right. Gresham's Law Syndrome and Beyond: An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy, written
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Local Governance in Bangladesh
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Talukdar - Senior Programme Manager of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, and author of
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization
Bangladesh abounds in paradoxes. It has confounded many developmental pundits by maintaining a fairly brisk pace of economic growth while continuing
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM