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My Golden Bengal: Story of the Emergence of Bangladesh
Original price was: 250.00৳.187.00৳Current price is: 187.00৳.
Sanjida Khatun is the leading exponent of Tagore song in Bengal and eminent figure in the cultural arena of Bangladesh. She has founded along with others ‘Chhayanaut’, an institution per excellence promoting the music culture of Bengal, Dr. Sanjida Khatun got her education from Viswa-Bharati, Shantiniketan and retired as Professor of Bengali, Dhaka University. With her life-long struggle to uphold the cultural identity of the Bengali people and distinguished career in music, arts and literature, Sanjida Khatun has become a cultural icon in the society. Her renderation of the history of the emergence of Bangladesh for the young readers in undoubtedly a unique book on the cultural history of Bangladesh.
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My Golden Bengal: Story of the Emergence of Bangladesh
Original price was: 250.00৳.187.00৳Current price is: 187.00৳.
Sanjida Khatun is the leading exponent of Tagore song in Bengal and eminent figure in the cultural arena of Bangladesh. She has founded along with others ‘Chhayanaut’, an institution per excellence promoting the music culture of Bengal, Dr. Sanjida Khatun got her education from Viswa-Bharati, Shantiniketan and retired as Professor of Bengali, Dhaka University. With her life-long struggle to uphold the cultural identity of the Bengali people and distinguished career in music, arts and literature, Sanjida Khatun has become a cultural icon in the society. Her renderation of the history of the emergence of Bangladesh for the young readers in undoubtedly a unique book on the cultural history of Bangladesh.
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Ragpicker Amin Ragpicker Pussy Cat
Original price was: 100.00৳.75.00৳Current price is: 75.00৳.
Ragpicker Amin Ragpicker Pussy Cat is a juvenile novel with difference, mixing reality with fantasy and thereby depicts in a fascinating way the life of children who roam in the streets of Dhaka. Tokai is the generic name for these boys who sleep on park benches, sidewalks, in railway platforms; they roam the streets and pick up rags, scraps of paper etc.. hoping to sell them to some dealer and thus struggle to survive in a ruthless environment. Lutfor Rahman Riton (b. 1961) in this novel gives us very interesting portrait of a ragpicker called Amin Ali who is joined by a non-human ragpicker, a pussy cat. The adventures of ragpicker Amin and ragpicker pussy cat reflect our socio-political milieu in a manner that is amusing as well as disturbing.
This unusual novel for children has been translated into English by National Professor Kabir Chowdhury (b.1923), who happens to be the country's most prolific translator of world literature into Bengali. He has also rendered various contemporary Bengali writings into English.
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Ragpicker Amin Ragpicker Pussy Cat
Original price was: 100.00৳.75.00৳Current price is: 75.00৳.
Ragpicker Amin Ragpicker Pussy Cat is a juvenile novel with difference, mixing reality with fantasy and thereby depicts in a fascinating way the life of children who roam in the streets of Dhaka. Tokai is the generic name for these boys who sleep on park benches, sidewalks, in railway platforms; they roam the streets and pick up rags, scraps of paper etc.. hoping to sell them to some dealer and thus struggle to survive in a ruthless environment. Lutfor Rahman Riton (b. 1961) in this novel gives us very interesting portrait of a ragpicker called Amin Ali who is joined by a non-human ragpicker, a pussy cat. The adventures of ragpicker Amin and ragpicker pussy cat reflect our socio-political milieu in a manner that is amusing as well as disturbing.
This unusual novel for children has been translated into English by National Professor Kabir Chowdhury (b.1923), who happens to be the country's most prolific translator of world literature into Bengali. He has also rendered various contemporary Bengali writings into English.
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Songs of Our Swampland
Original price was: 400.00৳.300.00৳Current price is: 300.00৳.
When the killing starts in Dhaka, the villagers know the army from West Pakistan will soon be in their area, but unlike the other young men, and his beloved step-sister Moni Banu, Kamal cannot join the resistance. Born with a hole for a mouth, most people, except Abbas Miah, the teacher who adopts him, his friends and Moni Banu, regard him as the village idiot. With Abbas Miah, Kamal embarks on a Noah’s ark journey, with the motley survivors of the massacre that inevitable comes, to find refuge in the distant floodplains until the war is over. Along with a bombastic old actor, the village mullah, the village cut-throat, two Hindu boatmen, a foul-mouthed old women, and a pious Islamist, who might just be a collaborator, Kamal discovers that there can be no escape from the war and the issues it raises. As our guide to the painful emergence of the new nation of Bangladesh, Kamal is forced both to observe the face of evil, the complexity of betrayal, and look within to discover whether he has the capacity for true community, whether he can follow the injunction: “If someone knocks on your door, you don’t ask who it is. You don’t even look at their face. You just do everything you can for them.
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Songs of Our Swampland
Original price was: 400.00৳.300.00৳Current price is: 300.00৳.
When the killing starts in Dhaka, the villagers know the army from West Pakistan will soon be in their area, but unlike the other young men, and his beloved step-sister Moni Banu, Kamal cannot join the resistance. Born with a hole for a mouth, most people, except Abbas Miah, the teacher who adopts him, his friends and Moni Banu, regard him as the village idiot. With Abbas Miah, Kamal embarks on a Noah’s ark journey, with the motley survivors of the massacre that inevitable comes, to find refuge in the distant floodplains until the war is over. Along with a bombastic old actor, the village mullah, the village cut-throat, two Hindu boatmen, a foul-mouthed old women, and a pious Islamist, who might just be a collaborator, Kamal discovers that there can be no escape from the war and the issues it raises. As our guide to the painful emergence of the new nation of Bangladesh, Kamal is forced both to observe the face of evil, the complexity of betrayal, and look within to discover whether he has the capacity for true community, whether he can follow the injunction: “If someone knocks on your door, you don’t ask who it is. You don’t even look at their face. You just do everything you can for them.
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Songs of Rabindranath Tagore
Original price was: 800.00৳.600.00৳Current price is: 600.00৳.
Baul is a mystico-religious cult which flourished on the soil of Bengal during the early process of Hindu-Buddhist-Islamic synergy. Its occult root may be traced back through time even to the pre-Vedic Tantric cults.
Lalon, the great exponent of Baul philosophy, belonged to the mainstream of the original Baul cult which, although a melting pot of Sufi, Tantric and Vaishnava world views, was an unique syncretism of Dehatatwa and mysticism. Lalon added a critical social dimension to the already spreading subaltern stream of consciousness. His songs inspired Rabindranath Tagore to ‘plunge into the river of beatitude.’ We are sure the readers of this book will also have the same opportunity through the able translation of Samir Dasgupta.
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Songs of Rabindranath Tagore
Original price was: 800.00৳.600.00৳Current price is: 600.00৳.
Baul is a mystico-religious cult which flourished on the soil of Bengal during the early process of Hindu-Buddhist-Islamic synergy. Its occult root may be traced back through time even to the pre-Vedic Tantric cults.
Lalon, the great exponent of Baul philosophy, belonged to the mainstream of the original Baul cult which, although a melting pot of Sufi, Tantric and Vaishnava world views, was an unique syncretism of Dehatatwa and mysticism. Lalon added a critical social dimension to the already spreading subaltern stream of consciousness. His songs inspired Rabindranath Tagore to ‘plunge into the river of beatitude.’ We are sure the readers of this book will also have the same opportunity through the able translation of Samir Dasgupta.
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The Events in East Pakistan, 1971- (Geneva 1972)
Original price was: 300.00৳.225.00৳Current price is: 225.00৳.
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The Events in East Pakistan, 1971- (Geneva 1972)
Original price was: 300.00৳.225.00৳Current price is: 225.00৳.
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The Memsaheb’s Foot
Original price was: 300.00৳.225.00৳Current price is: 225.00৳.
"Set in the 1990s, in Dhaka, against the backdrop of a military regime, The Memsaheb's Foot is a fascinating story about a young university professor who is also a left radical, his beautiful wife with an uncontrolled temper and many unfulfilled desires, and their nubile maid Phulbanu who blooms into a beautiful young woman herself, seemingly challenging the beauty of her Memsaheb. Seen from the perspective of Phulbanu, the subaltern narrator, this novella is a powerful critique of the gradual corruption of a youthful, idealistic leftist intellectual who slowly succumbs to the lure of big money 'consultancies.' Phulbanu, the maid, is witness to the lives of the fascinating couple as they become increasingly prosperous, and her own life as it becomes complicated by a passionate love affair that Memsaheb cannot endure. Originally written in Bangla by Kashinath Roy, this dramatic story has been lovingly translated by his friend Shawkat Hussain, both former professors of English at Dhaka University."
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The Memsaheb’s Foot
Original price was: 300.00৳.225.00৳Current price is: 225.00৳.
"Set in the 1990s, in Dhaka, against the backdrop of a military regime, The Memsaheb's Foot is a fascinating story about a young university professor who is also a left radical, his beautiful wife with an uncontrolled temper and many unfulfilled desires, and their nubile maid Phulbanu who blooms into a beautiful young woman herself, seemingly challenging the beauty of her Memsaheb. Seen from the perspective of Phulbanu, the subaltern narrator, this novella is a powerful critique of the gradual corruption of a youthful, idealistic leftist intellectual who slowly succumbs to the lure of big money 'consultancies.' Phulbanu, the maid, is witness to the lives of the fascinating couple as they become increasingly prosperous, and her own life as it becomes complicated by a passionate love affair that Memsaheb cannot endure. Originally written in Bangla by Kashinath Roy, this dramatic story has been lovingly translated by his friend Shawkat Hussain, both former professors of English at Dhaka University."
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The Peacekeeper
Original price was: 350.00৳.262.00৳Current price is: 262.00৳.
THE PEACEKEEPER
Ahsan paints a brave new world, a world in transition, the surface of which is changing shapes, and the inner self of it, driven by love, truth and beauty, is constantly striving to create a beautiful tomorrow -The Star Magazine
An empathic human register-The Daily Star
An enlightening and thought provoking read-The Purple Magazine
Deep inside the jungles of Congo, Samir, on his peacekeeping mission, comes face to face with all the incredible challenges Africa has to offer. Cloaked in a cover of uncertainty, his only hope for surviving the mayhem of the brutal cannibals, gun-trotting child soldiers and the bloodthirsty belligerent rebels is his wit which he finds challenged every single day. As he lives through his ordeal, Africa surfaces to life with all her magnificence, seduction, gloom and gore from the pages of the books he read back home. Death hovers over his head like a cloud yet he is awed by the beauty of Africa, humored by the non-congruity of life and excited about his job of bringing peace in the war ravaged country.
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The Peacekeeper
Original price was: 350.00৳.262.00৳Current price is: 262.00৳.
THE PEACEKEEPER
Ahsan paints a brave new world, a world in transition, the surface of which is changing shapes, and the inner self of it, driven by love, truth and beauty, is constantly striving to create a beautiful tomorrow -The Star Magazine
An empathic human register-The Daily Star
An enlightening and thought provoking read-The Purple Magazine
Deep inside the jungles of Congo, Samir, on his peacekeeping mission, comes face to face with all the incredible challenges Africa has to offer. Cloaked in a cover of uncertainty, his only hope for surviving the mayhem of the brutal cannibals, gun-trotting child soldiers and the bloodthirsty belligerent rebels is his wit which he finds challenged every single day. As he lives through his ordeal, Africa surfaces to life with all her magnificence, seduction, gloom and gore from the pages of the books he read back home. Death hovers over his head like a cloud yet he is awed by the beauty of Africa, humored by the non-congruity of life and excited about his job of bringing peace in the war ravaged country.
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The Progression Urban and Regional Development Planning Perspective
Original price was: 1,500.00৳.1,125.00৳Current price is: 1,125.00৳.
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The Progression Urban and Regional Development Planning Perspective
Original price was: 1,500.00৳.1,125.00৳Current price is: 1,125.00৳.
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The Progression Urban and Regional Development Planning Perspective
Original price was: 1,500.00৳.1,125.00৳Current price is: 1,125.00৳.
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The Progression Urban and Regional Development Planning Perspective
Original price was: 1,500.00৳.1,125.00৳Current price is: 1,125.00৳.
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War after the War : A Mother’s Tale
Original price was: 500.00৳.375.00৳Current price is: 375.00৳.
“For many wives and mothers of martyrs, the war of liberation of Bangladesh ended not in victory but with the begining of a new unforeseen and unimaginably difficult battle. The brutal killing of the head of the family shattered the course of life as they knew it. For the author’s mother, an instant took away her husband, confidant and head of her family. From a housewife overnight she was forced into the role of homemaker and bread-earner, the dual responsibility of being the father and mother of the family. For many widowed mothers in the time, so ensued an everyday struggle for existence and raising their children with education, strength and skill to face the challenges of life. In doing so they carried forward the legacy of the liberation spirit, the fulfillment of the dream of those who sacrificed their life for the freedom of the nation. This is the tale of one mother, a martyr’s wife, whose resilience and resolve is narrated by her youngest daughter, Shilpi Rahman. It is an intimate story animating the turbulence and trauma of a family– their war after the war. Ultimately it is the celebration of human spirit which can be an inspiring tale for all.
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War after the War : A Mother’s Tale
Original price was: 500.00৳.375.00৳Current price is: 375.00৳.
“For many wives and mothers of martyrs, the war of liberation of Bangladesh ended not in victory but with the begining of a new unforeseen and unimaginably difficult battle. The brutal killing of the head of the family shattered the course of life as they knew it. For the author’s mother, an instant took away her husband, confidant and head of her family. From a housewife overnight she was forced into the role of homemaker and bread-earner, the dual responsibility of being the father and mother of the family. For many widowed mothers in the time, so ensued an everyday struggle for existence and raising their children with education, strength and skill to face the challenges of life. In doing so they carried forward the legacy of the liberation spirit, the fulfillment of the dream of those who sacrificed their life for the freedom of the nation. This is the tale of one mother, a martyr’s wife, whose resilience and resolve is narrated by her youngest daughter, Shilpi Rahman. It is an intimate story animating the turbulence and trauma of a family– their war after the war. Ultimately it is the celebration of human spirit which can be an inspiring tale for all.