Ahsan Akbar: Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s largest Islamist group, is currently being put on trial for committing war crimes during Bangladesh’s partition from Pakistan. Jamaat-e-Islami fought against Bangladesh’s independence and orchestrated mass murders of Hindus and Bengali nationalists. The stories in Good Night, Mr. Kissinger begin with Bangladesh’s war for liberation, how did the experience of the…

by Ahsan Akbar Summer bids farewell. It is the perfect time to long for a dip into warmth of homeland nostalgia aka “immigrant fiction”, though the term is not favoured by Jhumpa Lahiri, whose new book pique my interest. The Lowland (Bloomsbury 2013) is her second novel and fourth work of fiction. Immediately after the…