When Anisha’s grandparents give her two magical necklaces on her birthday, a whole new world of learning opens before her. In a magical puff of smoke, Chloe transforms into a beautiful flying pony. She uses a very special camera; a camera tells Anisha interesting facts about the places and things she sees in return for each photo that she takes. Explore a rich culture and learn about the beautiful country of Bangladesh in Anisha’s first adventure.
This book entitled "COLLECTION OF ETHNOBOTANICAL REVIEWS" is an attempt by "Maleeha Umber and Rashida Sultana" to unfold the braid of various types of beneficial interactions among plants, animals and humans. "Collection of ethnobotanical reviews" is a set of review papers which provide an insight about the significance of plants in humans and animals survival on scientific bases. This book has been divided into two parts; first part is focused on medicinal value of plants in humans and animals lives, while second part has highlighted various day to day uses of plants in human life. CONTRIBUTERS: Maleeha Umber, Rashida Sultana, Hafiza Ayesha Satwat, Maria Ujala, Ayesha Ahmad, Saima Nudrat, Nomana Mansoor, Nomana Sattar, Amtul Kafi, Adeeba, Ayesha Noor, Fizzah Iman, Amtul Shafi, Maliha Ijaz and Oreej Saleem. Authors: Maleeha Umber & Rashida Sultana
This gripping novel brilliantly straddles the divide between thrillers and literature. Moinul Ahsan Saber here tells the story of Kobej Lethel, a ruthless soldier of fortune employed by a corrupt village chief. Lethel has never had a problem with the job before: he gets an assignment and handles it, even if that entails violence. But during Bangladesh's War of Independence, the chief sides with the Pakistani army as it carries out unspeakable atrocities. Suddenly, Lethel can no longer accept his role--he refuses, and rebels. But the transformation proves temporary: by the end of the war, he's back to his old ways, fighting for nothing more than a paycheck, on nothing more than an order. A powerful novel of war, history, and the deadly draw of violence, The Mercenary is an unforgettable look into the mind of a man who cannot escape the killing that has become his occupation.
Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly, and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, torture cells, ash and destruction everywhere in the wake of the Pakistani army's attacks on Bengali people. Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, two novellas by Bangladeshi writer Syed Shamsul Haq, bear bleak witness to the mindless violence and death of that period. Blue Venom tells of a middle-aged middle manager who is arrested and taken to a cell, where he is slowly tortured to death for being a namesake of a rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Forbidden Incense, meanwhile, tells of a woman's return to her paternal village after her husband was taken by the army. In the village, she meets a boy with a Muslim name whose entire family has been killed; as they attempt together to gather and bury scattered corpses, they, too, are caught by the killers.
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets, often with Dhaka's famous rickshaws ferrying them to and fro across cultural, economic and ethnic divides. Just like Dhaka itself, these stories thrive on the rich interplay between folk culture and high art; they both cherish and lampoon the city's great tradition of political protest, and they pay tribute to a nation that was borne out of a love of language, one language in particular, Bangla (from which all these stories have been translated).