Orient Black Swan
Non-fiction
Bangladesh is one of the Asian countries making great strides in terms of economic development. But how did it reach this stage from its blood-tinged independence in 1971?
Bangladesh at 50 offers a multitude of perspectives on how Bangladesh earned its name as a growing economy and the possible challenges that might beset the country's social, economic, and political structures. It also provides a glimpse into the dizzying intersection among NGOs, corporations, militancy, environment, and gender.
ONCE MORE INTO THE PAST: Essays personal, public, and literary
Daily Star Books
Non-fiction
Beginning with a childhood spent falling in love with Tagore in the simpler days of secular Old Dhaka and a richly stocked British Council library, Fakrul Alam moves on to strife-ridden days of the liberation war, dissent on the Dhaka University campus, and his experience of working with, and writing about literary greats, from Jibanananda Das, Marx, and Shakespeare to Kaiser Haq, Razia Khan Amin, and more.