Sylhet kainyar atmakatha-Bijoya Chaudhuri - Anustup

Celebrating the 101st birth anniversary of Bijoya Chaudhuri and the reissue of her autobiography and a new website. 4th November, 6 pm. All are welcome.

Building human capital where it matters-new report

Explore global evidence on how homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces influence health, learning, workforce skills, and productivity. A valuable resource for researchers, economists, and policy scholars interested in the next generation of human capital research. Download the report: http://wrld.bg/F47G50Ysai5

Angel of Death-a story of smallpox by Gareth Williams

' presents a compelling account of humanity’s battle against one of its greatest killers: smallpox and offers fresh insights and comparisons with COVID-19 and Mpox - an essential read for anyone fascinated by the history of medicine, science or health.

Instruments of memory-encounters with the wandering Jew - Lisa Lampert-weisigg

"How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused him rest, cruelly taunting him to hurry to meet his fate. In response, Jesus cursed the man to wander until the Second Coming. Since the medieval period, the legend has inspired hundreds of adaptations by artists and writers. Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew, the first English-language study of the legend in over fifty years, is also the first to examine the influence of the legend’s medieval and early modern sources over the centuries into the present day. Using the lens of memory studies, the work shows how the Christian tradition of the legend centered the memory of the Passion at the heart of the Wandering Jew’s curse. Instrument of Memory also shows how Jewish artists and writers have reimagined the legend through Jewish memory traditions. Through this focus on memory, Jewish adapters of the legend create complex renderings of the Wandering Jew that recognize not only the entanglement of Jewish and Christian memory, but also the impact of that entanglement on Jewish subjects. This book presents a complex, sympathetic, and more fully realized version of the legend while challenging the limits of the presentism of memory studies".

A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher

The story of the novel in Britain is a good story. It begins in the eighteenth century, when people began to read in ever greater numbers, seeking words that helped explain their hopes and desires. A new kind of literature was needed for this growing market of readers, one that reflected as many different lives in its pages as there were people to buy them, that could change with the times and do something new: something novel. In this illuminating new history of both an art and an industry, Philip Hensher describes how the evolutionary scramble by writers and publishers to get attention drove constant innovation in writing techniques, and produced new ways of printing, distributing, and selling books. Over the course of three hundred years, these creative and commercial forces shaped the novel’s form and its future, from Daniel Defoe to Zadie Smith. Reading widely across the famous, the once famous and the utterly (if unfairly) forgotten, this is a work of investigative verve that makes a serious case for widening the canon. But it is also a gift: Hensher has read untold thousands of books, and A History of the Novel in Britain is his hoard of treasure, waiting to be discovered, wondered at and delighted in. Penguin India

when goddesses became human in medieval Bengali literature - saumitra chakravarty

The Medieval period in Bengal was noteworthy for its amazing religious syncretism, with the fusion of Shaiva, Shakta, and Vaishnava cults with regional folk traditions. It also witnessed the blending of Hinduism with the Buddhist Mahayana and Vajrayana sects, as well as with Islamic culture. Read the full article. Link in the comments. .

Rewriting the History of Humanity, Volume I: The Fragmentary Age, edited by Abdesselam Cheddadi

NEW! Published September-October 2026,

, offers a major new interpretation of human history from the origins of humanity to the threshold of modern globalization. Combining historical theory, anthropology, sociology, and global history, the book challenges linear and Eurocentric narratives by proposing a new framework centered on "Relevant Spatio-Temporal Units," means of power, and ontological initiative. Drawing inspiration from Ibn Khaldun while engaging critically with thinkers such as Hegel, Marx, Weber, Wallerstein, and contemporary global historians, Cheddadi redefines how historical formations can be compared without reducing their plurality to a single civilizational model. Cheddadi is among the most distinguished historians of the Maghrib and the leading authority on Ibn Khaldun, whose Muqaddima he translated into French for the Pléiade, and this volume, published by Brill as the opening installment of its Global Configurations series, carries his lifelong engagement with the Khaldunian tradition onto the terrain of world history. Details: See link in comments.