L’inconnu de la poste. She writes about an actual murder case that happened in Montréal-La-Cluse, in the Jura region. It’s a village of 3500 souls where the postmistress was murdered when she was on duty. Florence Aubenas was sent there to cover the story, got hooked up with the...
Brian is a profoundly moving meditation on the meaning of solitary life, of art and cinema in shaping one’s perception of and connection with the world, of the hidden depths of human soul often kept private in fear of misunderstanding and stigma, and of the importance of companionship and ...
And now, months after rebuilding a life in Bangladesh with her mama, baba, and brother, there’s before Samira saw the Bengali surfer girls of Cox’s Bazar, and after, when she decides she’ll become one. Samira Surfs is a tender novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl’s journey ...
meet anyone who lives far away, far away having a very different meaning in lockdown … In one of the dramatic ‘events’ of the book, Marianne and Margaret go for a walk outside, ‘unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.’...
Saralabala Sarkar was a politically active Bengali novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who served as a Member of the Women Satyagraha Samity of the Satyagraha movement in British India. Her books of poetry include Prabaha in 1904 and Arghya in 1938. Her memoir, Harano Atit, was...
I have always been fan of reading stories from my childhood, born and brought up in Bengali family, I have followed Tagore's work. After reading lots of different kind of stories, I … [Continue reading] Randhir Kaur Interview Tell us about yourself and what inspired you to start writing...
‘Chokher Bali’, literally meaning ‘Sand of the Eye’, equivalent to eye-sore, is a Bengali novel written by Rabindranath Tagore in the early 20th century, against the backdrop of the Indian Independence Movement. Tagore elaborately records early 20th century Bengali society, through his central...
“the bengali problem,” using a pejorative for rohingya in myanmar. another general wrote to praise the “brilliant effort to restore regional peace,” observing that “race cannot be swallowed by the ground but only by another race.” a un fact-finding report on the violence later...
t interested in celebrating him, not in life, not in death. Much more than a procedural thriller, HarperAcademic says, thatNotes, examines “…our system of justice and our cultural obsession with crime stories, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyche...
It’s been a while since my last post but something I’ve been working on has turned out to be a much bigger task than expected. In the meantime, a walking trip to the Eden Valley in the north of England last June with outdoors mate Patrick had many highlights. ...