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3+ week, 5+ day ago   (464+ words) In the early 1950s, a bohemian wanderer, a mystic painter arrived at Narail with no earthly possessions. Losing all that he had of his ancestral land, this vagabond and bachelor started to live in a bucolic environment with an adopted family…...

1+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (285+ words) The reader is intrigued at how the three realms are fused into a plausible story, but that is just what the author has achieved. In the meticulously thought-out plot, you will marvel at how the three realms converge. As the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (312+ words) “Here on the edge of the forest I pitched camp. All night long in pleasant southern breezes By the moon’s light I listen to the call of a doe in heat. To whom is she calling?” “My heart, a stag,…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (482+ words) The Daily Star Copyright: Any unauthorized use or reproduction of The Daily Star content for commercial purposes Beyond the myths of Aurangzeb: Munis D. Faruqui's fresh perspective Bengal, Mysore, and the making of American independence Can the China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Economic Corridor become…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (315+ words) What was the igniting spark that inspired you to write Love Forms? The narrator in the novel most often keeps unrolling her memories and her past. As a novelist, how do you look at the idea of ‘memories and the…...