Shahid Alam

A bland, matter-of-fact statement about Kazi Nazrul Islam would be that he is the National Poet of Bangladesh

Kazi Nazrul Islam needs no introduction to those familiar with Bangla literature. He and his works are, for cogent reasons, less known in other circles.

I was staring intently at the girl sitting in half profile in front and to the right of me. The girl was beautiful all right, but that is not

This is an aberrant situation…well, read on. Alam, in his Itihasher Korcha, quotes the Natore-born eminent historian Sir Jadunath

For a split second I was startled beyond belief. For a longer while, maybe about a minute, I must have stood still with my mouth agape

Just the other day I was watching over CNN the celebrated journalist Christianne Amanpour prefacing her interview of the veteran

Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and

The terrible realization was setting in almost all, if not all of us. The dream days of fun and work in equal measure at RADA were

Days with Dinko and other Memories, written by Monica Chanda, and edited and published by her daughter Malavika Karlekar, is a

I was never an autograph hunter. Never felt the urge, or the thrill, or the bragging right, or any of the rapid heart-thumping emotions

Rada was a lot of hard work interspersed with a good deal of pressure releasers. Talk about the right doses of work and play—RADA

This book's subtitle, Sketches from my Life gestures helpfully at the book's content for it is about the full and colorful life lived by its

We were out in the park, frolicking—all sixteen of us. Well, sort of! We were gamboling all right, but this was a part of the Alexander Technique exercise, something any casual observer in the park might not have understood.

Bret and I entered a cavernous RADA room, and not a moment too soon! What seemed like a thousand pairs of eyes stared at us as we

Bret and I were marching resolutely towards our Holy Grail, waiting for us only a couple of hundred meters or so away, though still out

Almost in front of the entrance to, and egress from, the Goodge Street subway station on Tottenham Court Road stood a coin-

Wars, great and small, have been a part of recorded human history. Given the varied elements that go toward the making of

I guess I was bitten by the acting bug in my mother's womb. Otherwise, how does one explain my fascination for the theater, theatrics,

If only Job Charnock was prescient enough to know that some three hundred years after his death a thriller would be written based on

Light, heavy, or both? History offers the reader a choice among all three, or a combination of them.