Ebook: Bangladesh: reflections on the water

'Bangladesh' is a personal and penetrating overview of the land and its people. James J. Novak examines the economy, the importance of seasonal fluctuations in the lifestyle and psychology of the people, geography, history, music, art, poetry, ways of thinking, and political life. He also offers a novel interpretation of the Bangladesh independence movement, the only full-fledged expression of nationalism to appear in the country's modern history. This nationalism, expressed in poetry, prose and song, is used to illustrate the interaction be­tween religion and secular thought, language and culture, cultural expression, poetry and art, and the transformation of culture into po­litical thought.