Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in :Literature in 1920. Hamsun’s work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with...
Literature
poem: Rabindranath Tagore
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...
Novelist Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.He was born in 1907 in Egridere township (now Ardino in southern Bulgaria) of the Sanjak of...
Mohammad Barkatullah
Badiuzzaman :Mohammad Barkatullah (1898-1974) essayist, prose writer, was born on 2 March 1898 at Ghorasal in Pabna. His father was Haji Azam Ali. Barkatullah studied at Shahjadpur High School and Rajshahi College. He then...
I am from here to eternity
Reza Sarwar :From nothingness I shall reach my goal.It’s not Kaba, Al-Aksa, Tur or NASAIn all my nasal breathI shall reach to a great space.Here’s my start,Here’s my end and here’s at last I...
Turkish writer Yasar Kemal
Yasar Kemal (born Kemal Sadik Gokceli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer of Kurdish ethnicity. He was one of Turkey’s leading writers. Kemal was long a candidate for the...
Recounting the sacrifices that made Bangla the State Language
Barrister Nazir Ahmed :Bangla is the State Language of Bangladesh – more than 155 million people of Bangladesh speak Bangla. It is the mother tongue of almost all people of Bangladeshi origin. Although Bangla...
POEM
Asad ChowdhuryPerspiring Cursing my enemies, I say, The past was vast and long in size, The future a bit lank by comparison, Slightly pale, and smaller in bulk as well. The scope of work...
Novelist Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macias (November 11,1928-May 15,2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Fuentes was born in Panama City to Berta Macias and Rafael Fuentes, the latter of whom was a Mexican diplomat. As the...
Book Review
Rabbani Choudhury Chhora Rochonaboli Prothom Khondo (Rhymes of Rabbani Choudhury 1st part). Published by Moin Mursalin, Protiva Prokash, Century Arcade, Outer Circular Road, Dhaka. First published : February 2015. Cover : Hashem Khan. Illustration...
POEM
The Queen mourns and sheds tears for the KingNawab Faizunnessa Choudhurani Oh Lord, what makes you so cruel-hearted! Why sorrow follows sorrow?What’s that great sin I have committed?Oh Lord, what makes me, without any...
Ekushey February
Ahmed Rafique :Ekushey February now also called just Ekushey, 21 February, Shaheed Dibas (Martyrs’ Day) and, since 2000, International Mother Language Day. On 21 February 1952, corresponding to 8 Falgun 1359 in the Bangla...