
New Delhi in the mid-1950s forms Raana Haider’s first recollection of India. She accompanied her diplomat father on his posting to New Delhi. Some fifty years later, she was once again living in New Delhi – this time accompanying her diplomat husband. India: Beyond the Taj and the Raj is the account of the author’s travel across the complex tapestry that is India – underlined with historical and literary narratives by generations of writers on India. Vestiges of the Mughal legacy crowned by the Taj Mahal are relived, as are remnants of the Raj.
Travelling widely in various continents can be an interesting, enjoyable and a learning experience. The author has done a good deal of it and plans many more to paths trodden as well as less-trodden. He has published about thirty travelogues. The Travel Tales in this volume, record the
Here is a fresh look at Italy and Rome from the perspective, not of a tourist but of a long time resident, albeit a foreign one. The charm of everyday Rome, the romance of history, the adventure of the expatriate’s eternal quest for home, the poetry of seasonal transformations, the eternal mysteries of relationships, the kaleidoscope of life in Italy in general and of ome woman in particular, are some of the myriad themes in this collection of articles and poems.
Paris is a feeling and not a city. It is un cri de coeur (a call of the heart). Parisian Portraits exemplifies the aphorism - plus change, plus est la mme chose (the more it changes, the more it is the same). Raana Haider explores the yesterday, today and tomorrow of the most beautiful city in the world. In the City of Lights, she is charmed by the Are de Triomphe, the Bois de Boulogne, the Champs-Elysees.
The land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is positioned in the twenty-first century in the Great Leap Forward. Today's Great March is the fast forward movement of the globe's largest buoyant economy and the largest global population. One of the world's earliest and most brilliant of civilisations casts its long shadow over the land and its people. Home to Chairman Mao's communism, China has embraced capitalism and consumerism with vigour.
'সুপ্রভাত আমেরিকা' মাহবুব তালুকদারের যুক্তরাষ্ট্র ভ্রমণের বর্ণময় বর্ণনায় সমৃদ্ধ কাহিনী। শুধু ভ্রমণকাহিনী বললে সম্ভবত এ গ্রন্থের পরিচিতি অসম্পূর্ণ থাকবে। আমেরিকার জনজীবন, সংস্কৃতি, সমাজসহ বিবিধ দিক বিচিত্র ঘটনাপ্রবাহের মধ্য দিয়ে উপস্থাপিত হয়েছে এ গ্রন্থে। জানা অজানা নানা তথ্যে ভরপুর গ্রন্থটি পাঠকের চোখের সামনে বিশ্বের ওপর প্রান্তের এই বহুবর্ণ দেশটির প্রতিকৃতি তুলে ধরেছে। আমেরিকা ভ্রমণকারী বা প্রবাসী পাঠকের কাছে বইটি স্মৃতির অনুসঙ্গ হতে পারে। যারা আমেরিকা ভ্রমণ করেননি, লেখকের রমনীয় অভিজ্ঞতার অংশীদার হয়ে তারাও ভ্রমণের আস্বাদন পাবেন., এরকম আশা করা অসঙ্গত নয়। কবি ও কথাশিল্পী মাহবু
The development history of Bangladesh is marked by fluctuations, turn-abouts and decelerations. To understand these complex dynamics of social and economic change towards finding solutions, we need to dig for historical knowledge. Francis Buchanan's account is the earliest and the most significant source of new information of 18th Century Bengal, Arakan, Tripura, Cachar, Manipur, Mizoram and Burma (Myanmar).