• Seller : Daily Star Books. view all
• Author : Fakhrul Alam
• Brand : Daily Star Books
• Genre : Research, Article and Statistics On Bangladesh
• Occasion : Boi Mela 2021
• Publisher : Daily Star Books

About the book

How does Tagore intoxicate a growing young man, and how does that grow into shrewd respect for his genius and his flaws? How has Dhaka transitioned through the Partition of Bengal and birth of the University of Dhaka, the struggle for linguistic and national freedom, and the beauty and decline of its streets and its cultural institutions? And how does one remember—with nuance, with style—icons of history and culture, ranging from Bangabandhu, Tagore, Marx, and Melville to Jibanananda Das, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, Razia Khan Amin, Kaiser Haq, and Syed Manzoorul Islam?

Once More Into the Past journeys back to such iconic moments of local and global history, filtered through personal memories and the clarity and complexity of Fakrul Alam’s voice. Each piece is an education in life writing, in literary analysis, and appraisal of the past and present.

Curated from a pool of essays spanning over three decades, Once More Into the Past collects in prose Alam’s close friendship with The Daily Star from the late 1990s—at times as an op-ed contributor, at times as an essayist and critique, and for a brief period as Literary Editor. 

About the author

Fakrul Alam is UGC Professor of English at the University of Dhaka and a writer, editor and translator, renowned for his work on postcolonial literature and Rabindranath Tagore. He has also taught at universities in North America and India.

Name: ONCE MORE INTO THE PAST

Author: Fakhrul Alam

Material: Multicolor Cover Page with Glossy Ink

Size: 8.75 X 5.5

Published: February 2020

Pages: 280

Binding: Hardback