More than two and half a decade after the demise of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his 'lost album' is going to be published on September 20 this year from UK-based Real World Records, supported in part by the British Council. The lost album, 'Chain of Light', was discovered in the tape archives of Briti

Alliance Française has branches in Dhanmondi and Gulshan in Dhaka and Chattogram. Their library, named after the celebrated science fiction author, has books almost similar in number to the Archer K Blood American Center Library in their chief branch at Dhanmondi.  Here, one will cat

At about the turn of the twentieth century in France, a wealthy couple in Paris was at a fix to manage milk for their baby. To feed it, they travelled for twelve hours to a small hilly village of Abondance, situated more than 600 kilometres from Paris and found a poor, healthy woman. The male of th

There exist approximately a thousand Baha'is in Dhaka. Last Wednesday, Baha'is ended their 19-day fasting and celebrated Eid-e-Nowruz, their New Year. Bangladeshi and Iranian Baha'is joined together to celebrate the religious festival at the National Baha'i Centre located at the capital's Shantinag

Joy Hakim's third from the ten-volume USA history, From Colonies to Country (1735-1791), has been an instrumental read this year, bar none. It invokes nothing but poignancy that even after 51 years of independence, no institution either of governmental or private authority has produced su