Dr. Ashraf Siddiqui :Back of all literature stretches and unmapped and immeasurable world of oral tradition which may roughly be called Folklore. As in other countries in the world in Bangladesh also we can discover an enormous amount of influence of folklore on our old and modern Bengali literature. It has now become proverbial that “necessary that he should be familiar with the folkloric heritage of the country.” The writer however, will endeavor to give a short historical background of...
Danobir Ragib Ali Gono Sombordhona Smarok (Recalling Mass-Reception of Magnanimous Ragib Ali). Editor : Abdul Hamid Manik. Associate Editor :...
M. Mizanur Rahman : My friend, today I go with my age.I can’t help otherwise so long I live.Verily I know, I got little or no knowledge.Like me, my friend, that you also believe. I am with myself. What I do, habitually you also do so.But difference is taste. That may not be the same.Our age hardly betrays us except we play its game.Namely our idiocy betrays our soul we hardly know. What’s our aim in life that many of us...
Dr. Ashraf Siddiqui :Back of all written literature stretches an unmapped and immeasurable world of oral tradition which may roughly be called folklore. A proverb is an important branch in it – it is a short sentence based on long experience – it is a crystalised form of human experience – always grafting the new on to the old it is something like a forest tree with its roots deeply buried in the past but which continually puts forth new...
Reza Sarwar : Mystery of self is absolute of which eternal secrecy of endless moments juxtaposed in the means of time beauteous and lovely. Who am I and where to go and where to stay that Reza Shah asks. When there’s no living being, neither light nor dark, everything seems incorporeal, then a call comes from the unseen heaven, wake up, won’t you get up, well – it’s a significant call! It’s the awakening of love, it’s call of the...
reflects the living memories of a former bureaucrat :Published by Palok Publishers. 179/3, Fakirerpool, Dhaka 1000. ISBN 9789849097143The author had the rare opportunity to closely observe the techniques and strategies how a developing nation is governed being a personal secretary of a President and a Prime Minister which has added a special aspect to his bureaucratic career and it has been recorded in this book. Professor Moonjurul Islam of DU has gone through the whole text in one night as...
(Local Government Acts and its Review) :by Safiul Azam. Publisher: Mobarak Hossain, Munni Publication, 38/2Ka, Banglabazar, Dhaka. Published in Ekushey...
Abu Bakar Siddiquee :Prior to the eighties of twentieth century there was scarcity of shops in Dhaka city where one...
When we go through Karen Connelly’s debut novel The Lizard Cage, it takes us into an exotic land. Connelly is...
Shamsur Rahman :Freedom, you’re Tagore’s timeless poetry and everlasting lyrics. Freedom, you’re Kazi Nazrul, the regally maned magnificent man, rapturous in creation, oh joy. Freedom, you’re the radiant gathering at Shahid Minar on Language Day. Freedom, you’re the flag-draped, slogan-serenaded boisterous procession. Freedom, you’re, the farmer amidst his fields, beaming face.Freedom, you’re the village lass’s lightsome swim in mid-day pond.Freedom, you’re the sinewy muscles on a skilled workman’s sunbronzed arms. Freedom, you’re the glint in the eyes of a freedom...
Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in...
Closed path :I thought that my voyage had come to its endat the last limit of my power,—that the path before me was closed,that provisions were exhaustedand the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity.But I find that thy will knows no end in me.And when old words die out on the tongue,new melodies break forth from the heart;and where the old tracks are lost,new country is revealed with its wonders. Only TheeThat I want thee, only thee—let...