Textbooks in Bangladesh tend to be written by foreign authors. Those that are written by Bangladeshi authors, emphasise on examples in a non-Bangladesh context.
Divakaruni has a message to send with this novel. To her, independence entails not just liberation or freedom from subjugation, it also means doing the right thing for oneself and for the people around us.
Although the book is written in English, he has plenty of doubt to dispense about the language, its usefulness, acceptance, and communicability when it comes to writing and creating art in Bangladesh.
It is the disease that maintains the upper hand in the plot. A jarring voice of its own, the toxins spilling across the pages in bold, chaotic words.
Part memoir, part magical realism, this is a story about identity and the idea of home.
The story of the ailing Bhawal prince, Ramendranarayan Roy, the Mejo Kumar, who while taken to Darjeeling to recuperate, died and was cremated there, under mysterious circumstances, and who then returned years later as a wandering ascetic with partial amnesia!
Andy Warhol suggested they tape their conversations on his Sony Walkman, to which Truman Capote agrees.
Nehru was revolted by Nazism and the persecution of Europe’s Jews. Bose…felt that the Indian struggle for freedom should override all other considerations.
A List of Offences
Dilruba Z. Ara
The University Press Limited
Guptodhoner Shondhane
Itihasher Bichitro Shorosh Kahini
Mahboob Alam
Prothoma
The Kagmari conference in 1957 remains a significant point of reference in the history of the Awami League. For two reasons. One, it was the first time the party found itself divided over such issues as foreign policy as pursued by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. Two, Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, determined to see the party steer a course away from pro-western diplomacy, found himself outmanouevered by the Suhrawardy camp. In the event, Suhrawardy won decisively....
The Chittagong Hill Tracts
Man-Nature Nexus Torn
Philip Gain (ed)
Society for Environment and
Human Development
Memory for Forgetfulness
Mahmoud Darwish
Translation Ibrahim Muhawi
University of California Press
Folklore in Context: Essays in Honor of Shamsuzzaman Khan
Firoz Mahmud (ed),
The University Press Limited
