I giorni dell'amore e della guerra

Some khademul Islam from ‘Daily star’ has said that this book is a definitive novel on 1971! Who is this man? Is he from Pakistan or outer planet? Please, send him a copy of ‘The days of 1971’ by Jahanara Imam. Okay, before I say other things, first a little about Tahmima. She was born in 1975 in Dhak Leggi tutto

নিজের চোখে একাত্তর দেখে লেখা স্মৃতিচারণ মূলক মুক্তিযুদ্ধ বিষয়ক বেশ কিছু বই এই বছরেই পড়েছি। সেই স্মৃতি এখনও টাটকা। এই বই পড়তে গিয়ে রীতিমতো সমস্যায় পড়ে গেছি। গল্পের সবাই কল্পিত চরিত্র এই ব্যাপারটা মেনে নিতে প্রথম দিকে বেশ হিমশিম খেতে হয়েছে। সেটা অবশ্য আমার ব্যক্তিগত সমস্যা। অন্য কারো সমস্যা হবে Leggi tutto

I did not know even the most solid facts of this history. My ignorance is all the more embarrassing since I live in an area of London with a large Bengali community and count Bengali folks among my students & their families. One of the things I find most frustrating about myself is that my memory wi Leggi tutto

Dear Husband, I lost our children today. What an opening line. Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age plunges you right into the twin events that form the basis of Rehana's character as a parent, fiercely protective and determined to have them near her. The death of her husband and her fight to keep her childre Leggi tutto

U ntil the end of 1971, Bangladesh, inhabited mainly by Bengalis, was known as ‘East Pakistan’. West Pakistan, now all that remains of Pakistan is, and was inhabited by a Punjabi majority. In 1970, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (‘Mujib’,a Bengali) and his party won the parliamentary elections. Mujib was prev Leggi tutto