After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to

Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S., attracted an international readership when her debut novel Arabian Jazz

When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.

I should have been listening to one of the scores of imaginative events on the poetry, life and times of the pre-eminent poet of the

You, who are

I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—

If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of Green Gables and its sequels are just the thing you have been looking

“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said Arundhati Roy in her interview with Patrick Carey for Books and Arts.

Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi

With him, “no” will never do.

The smell of spicy food was making Sam hungry. After a long wait at the restaurant, the waiter came with the food. He had a mask

The terrible realization was setting in almost all, if not all of us. The dream days of fun and work in equal measure at RADA were

Occasionally, a cookbook comes along that lures you into hours of reading. The recently published Recipes from Bangladesh by Fawzia Mowla (fondly known as “Lisa”) is one such book.

Most of us know that the celebrations of Pahela Baishakh began in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. However, we have mostly

If you ask me, it is not unlikely that alpana and kalpana should sound almost similar, since without kalpana, or creative ingenuity, it is

My phone is bombarded with SMS alerts notifying me of various deals available for Baishakh: the discounts that are offered in various

Celebrating Pahela Baishakh is only getting more and more colorful. It is no less than a carnival these days. As far I can remember,

After Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was slapped an uncertain prison term at the end of what he describes as a 'kangaroo trial,' on 18

There are books that you read just for the sake of reading. There are books that make you skip a bundle of pages to avoid the dullness. And then there are books that don't allow you to skip even a single page. Rich People Problems is one such book.

There is a feel good factor about Gauranga Mohanta's collection of prose poems A Green Dove in Silence. A neat jacket, crispy pages,