Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal today said that the problem of a huge backlog of cases continues because some people reap the benefits of the cases remaining pending with the courts
It is widely believed that online bookshops have already surpassed their offline counterparts. Except for the month-long Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela, books in Bangladesh are mostly sold online nowadays
Once More into the Past (Daily Star Books, 2020)
This was a bad year in so many ways but it was a good year to catch up on reading. One book which bowled me over and which I realise I should have read a long time back is Akhteruzzaman Elias s masterpiece,
Khowabnama (Mawla Brothers, 1996). I believe it s being translated now; if it finds a good international publisher it will surely be on the shelves with the greatest novels of the last century and place Elias on the shelves with Hardy and Faulkner as a literary chronicler who made a whole region come alive at a certain moment of history. Another novel that overwhelmed me in the Covid-19 year but had been gathering dust in my shelves earlier is Jose Saramagao s