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Philosopher Dewan Mohammad Azraf

Prof. Nurul Amin Chowdhury :(from the previous issue)His life-style was very simple, had saint-like personality and child-like nature. During his Rome journey, he gained great honour and respect from the foreign scholars for his...

Poem: The flower and the butterfly

M. Mizanur Rahman :What fascination that nature creates between the flowerand the butterflyis yet to be known. This is certainly the mystery of nature. While the bee takes outhoney from the flowerand puts it into its...

Qazi Motahar Hossain : Author and scientist

Qazi Motahar Hossain was a Bengali author, scientist, statistician and journalist. He had intimate friendship with poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Kazi Abdul Odud. He was a well known chess player as well.Qazi Motahar Hossain...

Recalling Principal Akhter Hamid Khan

Muhammad Quamrul Islam :Thanks to old Victorians (ex-students of Comilla Victoria College) and ex – Civil Service trainees at Comilla Academy under his guidance, held a meeting in the evening of Friday 12th September...

Poem

I travelled amongunknown menWilliam Wordsworth I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. ‘Tis past, that melancholy dream!...

Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan, prominent Tasmanian author, wins literary award Man Booker Prize 2014. The Tasmanian took out the 50,000-pound ($88,000) prize, which was announced at an awards ceremony in London.Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to...

Poem

HaikuAshraful Musaddeq Passed (To D Elizabeth R Taylor)Deplete calyxIs weeping from the orchidKitten Taylor passed PeoplesPeoples quarrelingAround circumference Worrying context PetalPetal of the timeFalling slowly decliningAnd moonbeam laughing PhysicalDay misses nightThe moon never meets...

Mystic poet Lalon Shah

Lalon also known as Lalon Sain, Lalon Shah, or Lalon Fakir (c. 1774-1890), was a Bengali Baul saint, mystic, songwriter, social reformer and thinker. In Bengali culture he has become an icon of religious...

Poet Kamini Roy

Kamini Roy (12 October 1864 – 27 September 1933) was a leading Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India . She was the first woman Honours Graduate in British India.Born on 12...

Book Review

‘Universal humanism in mystic poetry of Sabir Ahmed Chowdhury’ by M. Mizanur Rahman. Publisher : Sabir Sangeet O Samajkallyan Parishad, Lalmatia, Mohammadpur, Dhaka. First Edition : 15 July 2014. Compose : The author. Cover...