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Kabuli Wala And Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore
Original price was: 500.00৳ .375.00৳ Current price is: 375.00৳ .
“Tagore was a poet even as he wrote in prose; and the nuances, metaphors, ironies and, above all, the music of his writings refuse to be translated adequately. Shawkat Hussain’s translation of a selection of Tagore’s short stories is a noteworthy venture in the field. He has brought his deep interest in Tagore together with his academic and professional skill in English to bear on his challenging undertaking. His translation offers a new opening for the non-Bengali readers to the fascinating world of Tagore. The book will be helpful even for those who have read the stories in the original. And the selection itself speaks of a taste which is well worth getting acquainted with.” Serajul Islam Chowdhury, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Dhaka “Like all great writers, Rabindranath Tagore is inexhaustible, and it is fitting that he should continue to attract and challenge translators. Professor Shawkat Hussain has lovingly translated a dozen of his best known stories into eminently readable English – with a sprinkling of words carried over unaltered from the original. Teachers, students and translators, and hopefully the common reader, will enjoy (re)encountering Tagore in English garb.” Kaiser Haq, Professor of English, ULAB
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Kabuli Wala And Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore
Original price was: 500.00৳ .375.00৳ Current price is: 375.00৳ .
“Tagore was a poet even as he wrote in prose; and the nuances, metaphors, ironies and, above all, the music of his writings refuse to be translated adequately. Shawkat Hussain’s translation of a selection of Tagore’s short stories is a noteworthy venture in the field. He has brought his deep interest in Tagore together with his academic and professional skill in English to bear on his challenging undertaking. His translation offers a new opening for the non-Bengali readers to the fascinating world of Tagore. The book will be helpful even for those who have read the stories in the original. And the selection itself speaks of a taste which is well worth getting acquainted with.” Serajul Islam Chowdhury, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Dhaka “Like all great writers, Rabindranath Tagore is inexhaustible, and it is fitting that he should continue to attract and challenge translators. Professor Shawkat Hussain has lovingly translated a dozen of his best known stories into eminently readable English – with a sprinkling of words carried over unaltered from the original. Teachers, students and translators, and hopefully the common reader, will enjoy (re)encountering Tagore in English garb.” Kaiser Haq, Professor of English, ULAB
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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 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.