Born in Sylhet, Rumki Chowdhury's family moved to the United States in 1989 when she just turned three. She was in the Bronx, New York City, and later moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Her Feet Chime, Chowdhury's first novel is the Bangladeshi version of the Cinderella story. Chowdhury had her BA in English with writing concentration from William Paterson University. In an exclusive interview for ...

Born in Sylhet, Rumki Chowdhury’s family moved to the United States in 1989 when he just turned three. She was in the Bronx, New York City, and later moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Chowdhury’s Her Feet Chime is the Bangladeshi version of the Cinderella story. Because it is set in Bangladesh, highlighting its culture and values, it may be considered Diasporic. Chowdhury had her BA in English wit...

Creative writing gurus say title of a novel of a book always matters to the readers. If a book has an attractive or meaningful title along with good content, the book has all the chance to be gleefully accepted among the audience, the readers as well as critics. Many opine the title tells half the story of a book, even a collection of short stories. Take Jhuma Lahiri’s forst collection of short...

As Bangladesh's bloody war of independence from Pakistan came to its end, Dr MA Hassan went in search of his brother.

Sandile is a long lost friend; we met in Bangalore in 2000 at an alternative media conference; we were in touch for next two years. I printed this poem in Dhaka-based daily The Daily Star. After that, mails to him kept bouncing. I lost contact with Sandile. Sandile: if you are reading this, send me your contact, at least the email ID. Mine is ekram.kabir@gmail.com. I just heard a few years ag...

No one, except a cadet in Bangladesh going off to join an alien institution, understands how it feels like going away at a very tender age. No one can imagine what a 12-year-old boy has to go through when he is sent off to a cadet college. No one but a cadet will understand what sort of man he becomes when he experiences all trials and tribulations, happiness and blues when he passes out of a c...

A common belief among the Muslims in Bangladesh society that a man can marry four women was questioned at a recent workshop in Dhaka. Bringing a very important issue to light, the workshop also discussed a wide range of issues relating to Islamic treatment with women.

The media is doing wonders in today’s world of continuous flow of breaking news, views and photographs. People these-days don’t even think of spending a day without being touch with the media. Frankly, people globally have become very much dependent on the media: the daily development around them. Politics, economy, lifestyle, human rights, crime and even traffic jams – all these matter so much...