There is an entirely justifiable lament in Bangladesh regarding the lack of sound scholarly materials on the country, particularly those produced by Bangladeshi academics themselves.

Sometimes the web of obscurity becomes visibly so obvious to the viewer that such obscurity emerges as clarity.

This was 1973. Bangladesh had been born only about two years before. I was on my way back to Dhaka after attending a seminar in Belgrade, capital of the then Yugoslavia.

Ever since he appeared on the New York folk scene, presenting himself as an anonymous exile from a place of no distinct identity – “My name it means nothing, my age it means less, the country I come from it's called the Midwest” – Bob Dylan has worked to elude definition.

From ransacked temples and torched ancestral homestead,

Two pieces of roti or a red earthen plateful

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul inaugurates the Dhaka Literary Festival, with this the three-day festival kicks off at the Bangla Academy premises.

The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the greatest epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Rogan

This is a manifesto about ideas. Big ideas, small ideas, and outlandish ideas. Ideas that innovate, ideas that disrupt markets, and especially ideas that irritate. More than ideas, though, Mad Genius is about how ideas are born and the role they play in entrepreneurial thinking.

It has always seemed to me that nonfiction books are not as popular in this part of the world as their fiction counterparts. By this I mean both how nonfiction does not seem to be as visible in bookstores, and also how there does not seem to be that many people writing nonfiction.

Ihave always been intrigued by the historical novel. Some of it is composed around real historical figures, events, and locations,

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul is coming to Bangladesh to attend the Dhaka Literary Festival that will be held at the Bangla Academy on November 17-19.

My long desired visit to Meghalaya this year in fact pushed me back to the landscape of the days we spent here taking refuge in 1971

“No need to pay, I like you enough to give a free night,” Liz said to me.

If you are searching for a good book to pass time, or have a knack for suspense with hints of romance here and there, then I have the book for you.

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.

The diurnal and the nocturnal gyrations of the earth, the magnetic and gravitational attraction and repulsion of the celestial spheres

If literary delights are more to the taste than culinary, George Thompson englishes the improvised songs of the palky-bearers taking