Two travel books, one in English titled Travels of My Life by Sajjad Hussain and the other in Bengali named Himalaye Himabahe (In the glaciers of the Himalayas) by Iftekharul Islam came to my hand very recently and must be recommended as gems that would draw readers again and again and would put th

The celebrated prosaist and founder of the Bloomsbury Group in London, Lytton Strachey, in the preface to his book 'Eminent Victorians' started with a customary amazing line: "The history of the Victorian age will never be written; we know too much about it." He wrote in the next sentence that igno

Rochoita's recent book in memory of martyr Shaheed Badiul Alam Bir Bikram, titled Dipro Bodi, is an adroit bi-lingual publication of 384 pages. It is an addition to the burgeoning literature on liberation war and a testament to the fact that 1971 is an inexhaustible source for the historian. The b

The unexpected loss of the Bangladesh cricket team to the visiting West Indies in Chittagong on Sunday in the first Test shocked the home team's ardent supporters no doubt, and yet once again brought to the fore the glorious uncertainties of the great game. The defeat of the home team cast a spell