Orion at the Shaheed MinarShahabuddin Nagari It was before zero hour when I stepped on to the pavement,In a few moments the Shaheed Minar will be flooded by people,Wet flower petals will cover the stairs of the altar,Ekushey songs will float in the air like thin feathers,Barefoot processions of mourners will take us all toFifty two, when the Bangla alphabet had stumbledOn the blood-soaked bodies of some valiant youths. The streets seem gravely silent today ; no processions,No songs, no...
M. Mizanur Rahman :Moniruddin Yusuf (Born 13 February 1919- Death 11 February 1987) was myriad minded genius in Bengali literature....
Lewis carroll :Alice and her sister sat on the green grassy bank which was encircled by clumps of daisies. While...
Kabya Samagra by Moniruddin Yusuf.Edited by Belal Chowdhuri. Published by Liaquatullah, Student Ways, Banglabazar, Dhaka. First edition : Ekushe Bookfair...
I, the old man and my dream(Bridhyo ami o swopon)Moniruddin Yusuf I knew an old man a long time ago. He used to walk every afternoonattired by long white dress.I knew him. He had some apathy towards lifewith shattered dream. Yet a smile flickers at his lipson the fall of the evening and the scented breeze around him condensed like the mist.He would go across his ageand get in himself among the younger ones at quick steps.The people say, as...
Satyendranath Dutta (1882-1922), a Bengali poet, is considered the ‘wizard of rhymes’ (or-‘chhonder jadukar’ in Bengali). He was an expert...
Stephen Crane :Crane’s short story ‘A Mystery of Heroism’ is similar to his famous novel The Red Badge of Courage,...
William Wordsworth :Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then nature said, ‘A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This child I to myself will take: She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. “Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse; and with me The girl, in rock and plain. In earth and heaven, in glade and bower. Shall feel an oveseeing power To kindle or restrain. “She shall be sportive...
Michael Madhusudan Datta (born Jan. 25, 1824, Sagardari, Bengal, died June 29, 1873, Calcutta a great poet and dramatist was...
M. Akbar, Ali (1911-2001) was an educationist, researcher and writer. Akbar Ali was born on 1 March 1911, in the...
On December 14, 1895, Paul Eluard was born as Eugene Grindel on the outskirts of Paris. He was an excellent...
There was a very beautiful garden, full of lovely flowers and wonderful creepers. A section of garden had really very sweet fragranced and beautiful flowers. Of those flowers, a few were roses of marvelous colours. One could get a feeling; each rose was competing with the other … each believing itself the best. One of those was a yellow rose, which was very much contended and happy with its life, in spite of knowing its life was not more than...