When we go through Karen Connelly’s debut novel The Lizard Cage, it takes us into an exotic land. Connelly is...
reflects the living memories of a former bureaucrat :Published by Palok Publishers. 179/3, Fakirerpool, Dhaka 1000. ISBN 9789849097143The author had the rare opportunity to closely observe the techniques and strategies how a developing nation is governed being a personal secretary of a President and a Prime Minister which has added a special aspect to his bureaucratic career and it has been recorded in this book. Professor Moonjurul Islam of DU has gone through the whole text in one night as...
Muhammad (SAW): 1001 Universal Appreciations and Interfaith Understanding and Peacewritten by Dr Mohammed A. Lais :Dr Mohammed A. Lais, an...
by Md Maiz Uddin :Published by Ramshankar Debanath, Bivas, 68-69 Pearidas Road (Rumi Market) Shop No 10, Banglabazar, Dhaka. Publication:...
Stephen Crane :Crane’s short story ‘A Mystery of Heroism’ is similar to his famous novel The Red Badge of Courage,...
–Gazi Abdulla-hel Baqui Come with me to the war field,Ah! See the scenes of the dark knowledge,Bornout of the mortal frowning.Brothers and friends, mothers and sisters,Relations and creations, fowls and animals,All are wallowing and fidgetingBefore the threatening eyeballs of cannons,Oh! Listen! The report of the gun boomed,And thousands of smiles stopped forever.In the loveless derelict tower How a helpless pigeon is lamenting! Come with me to the war-turned desert,Ah! See the broken haunches of civilization,Look into the clear well of...
-Tahia TabassumI want to say you something, A silent untold deep story, To let see the wound in everything, I suppose to lock it with a key. A golden wound is here inside me To make my breathing alive. To make the balance with the death will be-To stop the running knife. A very simple wound that is, A special love to be hidden. I sometimes try to protect the kiss, A memory to preserve golden. A deep untold silent story it...
Sayeda Banu :Abul Fazal (1903-1983) educationist and writer, was born on 1 July 1903 in the village of Keochia in...
Bimal Guha :Ahsan Habib (1917-1985) poet and journalist, was born on 2 February 1917 in the village of Shankarpasha in...
J J O’Connor and E F Robertson :(From the previous issue)From around 1022 Mahmud’s armies began to have success in...
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni was born in Khwarazm, a region adjoining the Aral Sea now known as Karakalpakstan. The two major...
Shamsur Rahman :Freedom, you’re Tagore’s timeless poetry and everlasting lyrics. Freedom, you’re Kazi Nazrul, the regally maned magnificent man, rapturous in creation, oh joy. Freedom, you’re the radiant gathering at Shahid Minar on Language Day. Freedom, you’re the flag-draped, slogan-serenaded boisterous procession. Freedom, you’re, the farmer amidst his fields, beaming face.Freedom, you’re the village lass’s lightsome swim in mid-day pond.Freedom, you’re the sinewy muscles on a skilled workman’s sunbronzed arms. Freedom, you’re the glint in the eyes of a freedom...
