Photography tips that don’t come with the camera box!

A very easy to read but pretty hard to describe, this book, is even harder to take it in for budding photographers who have bought a DSLR and think reading the manual that came in the pack has everything they need to know.
17 February 2017, 14:51 PM

“Dirghosthayee Soksova”

“Dirghosthayee Soksova” is a book of poetry of Emran Mahfuz (Journalist, writer and researcher), published by Oitijjhya Publication.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Passion for Bengali, admiration for a father!

Acollection of essays where a son recollects the impact of his father on his life, thought, ideology and vision in life – Megh o Babar Kichu Kotha may appear to be just that at a cursory look.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

REVIEWED BY DR. ABDULLAH SHIBLI

Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian novelist and poet,is known around the world for his novel “Lolita”, the story of a sordid affair between a middle-aged college professor and a 14 year old nymphet.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Seeing femme fatale with a humane lens

Paulo Coelho's latest bestseller 'The Spy' is different from his characteristic genre of spiritual quests and journeys. In a sense, 'The Spy' is the story of a woman's journey, but more than that, it is the story of legendary Mata Hari retold as "history told from below", by a woman with a feminist voice.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Margaret Atwood says Trump win boosted sales of her dystopian classic

Canada's best-known writer Margaret Atwood says it was largely worries about women's issues after the US election that made her book "The Handmaid's Tale" the latest dystopian novel to shoot back up bestseller lists.
12 February 2017, 05:34 AM

Life and Peace

The apartment is quiet when Sarah wakes up this morning. She doesn't feel like getting up from bed and wants to just lie there, as though frozen, for a few minutes.
10 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Requiem for the Youth

Killing innocent people, killing yourself,
10 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Two Poems

I learnt the essence of life sacrificing most invaluable treasures With bitter experiences and losing the memories of the past
10 February 2017, 18:00 PM

'When Money Stops Talking and Starts Working!'

Getting back to consciousness after three days in a hospital in New York, multimillionaire Delwar Hossain looks for his son Tanjil with a mysterious smile on his face. As Tanjil enters the cabin, he knows right away that there is something behind that smile.
7 February 2017, 05:44 AM

'A Study Tour through the Life of a Middleclass Boy.'

Being a poet myself, I know how difficult it is to fit an entire story in a few words and two lines. Not only did Kingkor Ehsan do exactly that in the novel, but also created the poems, broke them into pieces and turned them to stories again.
6 February 2017, 06:52 AM

Kathmandu

One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development.
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat

Women of the World tells this story of personal and professional struggle against the dramatic backdrop of war, super-power rivalry and global transformation over the last century and a half.
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Avimani Tomar Daknam

Avimani Tomar Daknam is a book of poetry written by Sajeeb Shahriar and published by Sabda Sailee.
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Journey on the trail of love

Tazrian is a young writer endowed with the gift of imagination. She has revealed her creativity and adeptness in writing short stories that surely will make readers discern her distinctive style.
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Romance, togetherness and parting

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).
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM

An engrossing perspective on the Chittagong Hill Tracts

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.”
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM

'Super Fun Stories that Rhyme Too!'

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'!
4 February 2017, 04:40 AM

Boimela Picks: The Ghost of Pahartoli

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.
3 February 2017, 11:23 AM

Cry When Sad, Shout When Mad

Book: Biday Ma (Goodbye Mother), Author: Iqbal Khandaker, Genre: Original Author
2 February 2017, 04:30 AM