Dhaka, Nov. 28 -- A budding friendship surviving not only the ordeals of war, but the bitter taste of lingering grief is a page after page confession in Afsan Chowdhury's "Conversations with Suleman". Each "split" is a canto that metamorphoses into a book. Before this book, Dr Afsan and I often sat together after lunch, and as conversations often go, he would recount certain moments of his life in between sips of his coffee. Fooled by the objective knowledge of age and its course of time that leads one to repeat one story many times, after this poetic reading, I, however had come to a conclusive realization of not only do we all tend to repeat the past that wallows in the shadows, but that we choose to confide in these stories however man...