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

Elena Ferrante is an Italian novelist in her 70s who has been producing published work for about 25 years. But it was only four years

It was a pleasant morning. The summer sun without its usual needle-sharp rays had brightened the vast airport. Very likely last night's

We all are confined,

Faraaz is our proven brave heart

Undoubtedly celebrated bilingual poet, storyteller and writer Shamim Azad is one of the best known Bengali poets in England. Also her

Jamunacharya, the renowned philosopher of Takshashila, was grinding away on a complicated version of mimamsha, an orthodox