Temple Classroom
A beggar girl struggling her way out in this big, bad world helplessly hoping for a benevolent hand, a housewife for whom
marriage has lost its meaning long back and she is only carrying the habit of it now, a young girl who wishes to bring quality
education to her illiterate village folks, an orphan who roots for her true identity in the child she is yet to birth, a village
tea seller who wishes to become a famous actor in Bombay.‘Temple Classroom & Other Stories’ is a collection of various
facets that form our lives and the lives around us. These are the stories that were written over a period of 2 years in buses, trains & metros…on laptop, mobile & computer. Some of these tales were written from the myriads of experiences that life threw at the author and some are figments of her imagination, borne out of its various impressions.
टक्कर और अन्य कहानिया
डब्ल्यू जैक सैवेज एक सेवानिवृत्त प्रसारक और शिक्षक हैं। वह अपनी नवीनतम, द केयरटेकर्स सन: स्किप सैवेज रिमेम्बर्स ओल्ड सेंट पॉल (wjacksavage.com) सहित आठ पुस्तकों के लेखक हैं। आज तक, जैक की सैकड़ों लघु कथाएँ और लेख यू.एस. और अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर प्रकाशित हुए हैं। वह एक कुशल कलाकार भी हैं। उनकी एक हज़ार से अधिक पेंटिंग और चित्र पुस्तकों, पत्रिकाओं और ezines में छपे हैं। जैक और उनकी पत्नी कैथी कैलिफोर्निया के मोनरोविया में रहते हैं।
Living in Air
Reading Ipshita’s stories is like listening to a house -that we had thought to have been deaf and dumb-suddenly burst into speech. The writer’s eye for details is unmistakable as is her insight into the prose and poetry of relationships, mostly domestic. Her prose is seductively lyrical lending density even to the thinnest of her narratives. Everything finds its place in these stories: men, women, cats, trees, clouds… so that we exclaim: O, this was how the world was created by God’s imagination. K. Satchidanandan Author Ipshita Chanda has lived and worked in Kolkata, and is currently teaching in Hyderabad. She translates between Bangla, Hindi and English
One Dozen Hasan Azizul Huq
Translator:-
Maitreyee B Chowdhury is a Bangalore based poet and writer. She is author of three books-Where Even The Present Is Ancient: Benaras , Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen: Bengali Cinema’s First Couple and The Hungryalists. In 2013, Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen: Bengali Cinema’s First Couple was nominated for the Crossword Awards. She may be found at http://www.
The Anchored Boat
A verdant hill, a winding mountain road, a river in spate, a naughty child wanting to miss school and a rain soaked morning all come to life as one begins reading this collection. Love & longing, affection & affliction, ignorance & ill-will, victory & vengeance, wilderness & wildlife, curiosity and concern form the central theme of the poems. The poet invites you to hitch a ride on to a peeping cloud or laze around in the garden on a winter afternoon to catch a group of polar bears looking for fish in the arctic snow…all in the sky and deftly puts together a time machine where you can dive into some nostalgia! You can choose to soak the aroma as your granny bakes some yummy buns …and follow the postman from the staircase to your home to receive a letter or giggle at your own reflection in the sparkling waters of the neighborhood well!
A collection of poems not to be missed by poetry lovers!
The Lost Polestar
Twenty thousand years ago, when early man made his way to North America, a tribe of prehistoric predators made the great trek as well. But these giant, deadly beasts seemingly became extinct…and humans lived to become the most violent creatures on Earth. Man’s brutal nature reached a boiling-point with the execution of Russia’s last czar and his entire family. But some believed that the czar’s children, Alexei and Anastasia, survived―and came to America with the treasury of the Romanov dynasty. That legend was born on July 17, 1918―and lives on to this day…
Les contes dechirant’s de 1971
A collection of short stories from Bangladesh that offers a panoramic view from the Bangladesh Liberation War to contemporary conflicts in the life of people.
Daedalus’ & Kite
Daedalus’s Kite consists of thirteen short stories that talk mostly about contemporary Bangladeshi society and people. Syed Manzoorul Islam writes in many genres and in his stories he usually incorporates his own experiences. He tries to live the life of his characters, seeing the world through their eyes and describing their pain and happiness. His stories have surrealistic elements since he believes that “the surreal is the flip side of reality – it is what gives meaning to our everydayness”.
Nineteen Seventy one
Rashid Askari is a Bengali-English writer, fictionist, columnist, media personality and an academic in Bangladesh. Born on 1st June, 1965 in a sleepy little town of Rangpur, Bangladesh, he took an Honours and a Master’s in English from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and a PhD in Indian English literature from the University of Pune, India. He is currently the vice chancellor of Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh. Askari emerged as a writer in the mid-1990s and has by now written half a dozen books and quite a large number of articles, essays, and newspaper columns in Bengali and English published at home and abroad. His two Bengali books: Indo-English Literature and Others (Dhaka-1996) and Postmodern Literary and Critical Theory (Dhaka-2002) and one English book The Wounded Land deserve special mention. He is one of the major present generation Bangladeshi writers in English with his own very personal style.