Very insightful to the history of Bangladesh. At times it seems to be a little judgmental and may not give an accurate representation of how people actually felt at the time. Also, readers may get confused with all the names, dates, and events that take place, but this is part of Bangladeshi history. Overall, the book was very good and helped me make more sense of the confusing history of Bangladesh.

The only readily available, handy sized reference guide to the birds of India, although far from complete. But the book turned out to a great help for my first steps in birdwatching.

lajja was a major disappointment in that it simply chronicled the events happening between 1990 and 1995 . I believe that the author lacks a basic story telling skill. She attempts to tell a tale about the 1990 riots through the experiences of a familly , but it feels like continously reading the day to day newpaper of that time.
I felt cheated after reading the same.

I m thrilled to read this book . Its the first book that I have ever read and am thrilled to read a book on the cruelty of man in the name of religion. Hindu and Muslim, I accept that they are two different religion. but both the religion and there holy literature teach only love, peace, and harmony among not just there own religion but also among people of different sects and religion. The writer has written this book in such a lucid language that its a pleasure reading this book. Tears roll down your eyes when you read this book. I for once really could not stop tears flowing out of my eyes. Why in this world people practice communalism? Why is there hate among people on the grounds of religion? These are few question that the fundamentalists have to answer. If you want to feal the pinch about human cruelty, if you want to visualize the pinch of communalism, than this is the book that I suggest you and everyone to read. Dont miss it its really one of the greatest books written

wORTH aVOIDING - BAD PICTURES ( A FEW GOOD) NO MATCH FOR THE INSKIPP - NOT A GUIDE BUT A PICTURE BOOK

This book is a very noble effort at a photographic field guide to Indian birds. Not surprisingly, the quality of the photos varies from excellent to marginal-at-best; a few species could not possibly be intentified from the photos provided. Having said that, this book does contain several valuable features lacking from the other Indian bird guides. The range maps are displayed along with each species, with symbols and notes on the relative rarity of each species. Another very nice feature is the inclusion of the older, common (English) names which is great for those who have birded in India for awhile. I also like the smaller size and portablility of this book. The bottom line: if you are going to take one bird field guide to India, I wouldn't take this one- the Grimmett/Inskipps or Kazmeirczak "non-photo" guides are better bets. However, if you are a serious birder and don't mind packing two bird books, I'd highly recommned taking this one along to supplement the information in the other field guides.

The informatioon and statistics in this book is incomplete. It is primarily a projection of the writer's bureaucratic experience with the Ershad dictatorial regime in Bangladesh.

The author seems to provide lots of inaccurate and incomplete information in his study of Bangladesh. He occassionally presents unupdated information in an overall inconsistent story which is basically the prose of the author's bureaucratic experience in that country, particularly his years with the corrupt dictator of Bangladesh, Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Not Recommended to readers. For a more up-to-date work, Rehman Sobahan's World Bank Series titles are recommended.

First, the volume represents a collection of essays by the leading economists of the country and not by a single author! Second, the editor , as the customer seems to imply by the term "author", has never worked for the government of Bangladesh under any capacity under any regime!!Third, the book is the most comprehensive and objective assessment of the economy of Bangladesh todate and this is widely corroborated by a large number of book reviews that have appeared in scholarly economic journals.

I found this book to be overall pretty disappointing. First off, the illustrations are horrible. They look like children's cartoon drawings. Why don't the editors of mammal-books hire the same artists who do bird guides? The latter are generally really good.

Secondly, there is a lot of important information lacking. For example the book states that it describes "almost all the species that can be identified in the field easily". I was hoping for a book to 'the mammals of the indian subcontinent' (ALL of them) not a book of 'the mammals of the indian subcontinent that can be easily identified'. The whole section at the end on 'Where to Watch mammals' is pretty useless. I'll get that info from the 'Lonely Planet', thanks. That space should have been spent instead on descriptions (and better illustrations) of more species.

This book covers the land mammals of the Indian Subregion or in other words it cover: India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. However, it also does exclude the smaller and often inconspicious mammals like baths, schrews, and most rodents. A number of small but often conspicious mammals are included. For instance both squirrels and pikas are included. In total it depicts and describes 106 species in deatail. It starts in the typical manner with an introduction to the region, mammals, and mammal observing. This section is highly usefull to the unexperienced reader, but will probably seem quite borring to most, as it is short and only mentiones the most bassal things. The next fourty pages is devoted to the mammal species themselves. This means that there is 2-3 species per page. About each species the book descibes identification, habitat, range (no range maps!), behavior, diet, breeding, status, and similar species. The text is not for pleasure reading, but it is highly usefull in the field. A thing to remember - not mentioned in the book - is that the status refers to subregion only, not the intire world. An example is the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) which is described as endangered. The next pages are assigned to 12 colour plates with drawings of the mammals. The drawings are not especialy beautiful, but all the important details usefull in identification are remembered. The next 12 plates are devoted to animal tracks. The last third of the book describes 23 national parks/reserves in the region including the famous Chitwan NP and Sunderbars NP. These pages are the highlight of the book. In this part there is a map of each park and a quite thorrow descibtion of acces, accomodation facilities, season to go there, larger mammals of the area etc. Sadly similar chapters in other books have been shown to go quickly out of date. At the end of the book there is a chapter called "futher reading" which obviously seems equal to bibliograpy.

In total the book seems to be good in the field, but there are quite a few large lacks. For instance a number of large species known in the area are not mentioned at all. An example is the Toque Macaque (Macaca sinica). The Slender Lori (Loris tardigrandus) is mentioned only briefly in "similar species" of the Slow Lori ( Nycticebus coucang). This seems strange as the Slende lori occurs in a much larger part of the subregion. Sadley this is also a fact with a number of other species. They also use a number of outdated latin names. An example is the use of the genus Felis for all the smaller cats. In the beginning of the book they mention that the reason for the use of "old names" is because they are more familiar to people! But they are still incorrect in my opinion (I know other people don't find them to be so). It is however still a very good and usefull companion when watching wildlife in the region.

i like to learn of the warld history.

i like to larn about theworld history.