Lifelines

I recently bought a copy of Lifelines , an anthology of short stories in English by Bangladeshi women. It is edited by Farah Ghuznavi and pu...

My Book on Sundarban

My photo book on Sundarban is now available from Blurb . The book is called Sundarban - A Photographic Journey. It shows some of the things ...

ebooks, Amazon, Apple

I wrote about the emergence of ebooks in this week's Tangents but there are some things I left out for various reasons. One is the EU (...

Hay You!

There, now that I have your attention... Two attractions for the Dhaka Hay festival tomorrow, Nov 21st: a) Commonwealth Prize winning writer...

Hay Festival

The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts is coming to Dhaka on 21 November. It is a one day program "bringing together writers and t...

Storyteller

Here is a Bangladeshi writer who is active in the international fiction scene. Farah Ghuznavi's short stories have appeared in two conse...

The Stories of "Killing the Water"

Killing the Water is a collection of twelve short stories by Mahmud Rahman published by Penguin Books. The author is a native of Bangladesh...

At the Book Fair (Ekushey Boi Mela)

Dhaka's largest book fair - Boi Mela in Bengali - happens every February to coincide with February 21st, the Language Day. Some came alo...

Traffic Jam Bestsellers

If you ride in a car in any of Dhaka's major roads, they are bound to run into your window glass: the booksellers selling photocopied ve...