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Novelist Manik Bandyopadhyay

Syed Azizul Huq :Manik Bandyopadhyay (1908-1956), novelist and short story writer, was born in the town of Dumka in Santal Pargana, Bihar, on 29 May in 1908, where his father, Harihar Bandyopadhyay, was stationed...

Novelist, Poet Emily Bronte

Joyce M S Tompkins :Emily Bronte, in full Emily Jane Bronte, pseudonym Ellis Bell, (born July 30, 1818, Thornton, Yorkshire, England-died December 19, 1848, Haworth, Yorkshire), English novelist and poet who produced but one...

Poet John Milton

Literature Desk :John Milton (1608-c1674) English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, is best known for writing ‘Paradise Lost,’ widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.John Milton is best known for Paradise Lost, widely...

Novelist Jane Austen

Brian C Southam :Jane Austen, (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England-died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire), was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of...

Novelist Jane Austen

Novelist Jane Austen

Contd from Page 8 :By contrast, Marianne’s older sister, Elinor, is the guiding light of ‘sense,’ or prudence and discretion, whose constancy toward her lover, Edward Ferrars, is rewarded by her marriage to him...

POEMS: To have written in history

POEMS: To have written in history

-Mosarrof Hossain BhuiyanIn which country farmers labourers all would be the great-heroThe people built happy home with sweet dream in bosom.Anywhere in the world such a sweet country will not be tracedThe grassy green...

Playwright, critic Munier Chowdhury

Anupam Hayat :Munier Chowdhury (1925-1971) educationist, playwright, literary critic, was born on 27 November 1925 in the town of Manikganj. His ancestral home was in Noakhali District. His father, Khan Bahadur Abdul Halim Chowdhury,...

Science writer Abdullah Al-Muti Sharafuddin

Sajahan Miah :Abdullah Al-Muti Sharafuddin, (1930-1998) educationist, administrator and Science writer. Born on 1 January 1930 at village Fulbari in Sirajganj. Abdullah Al-Muti Sharafuddin obtained MSc degree (1953) in Physics from the University of...

POEMS: A silent untold story

POEMS: A silent untold story

-Tahia TabassumI want to say you something, A silent untold deep story, To let see the wound in everything, I suppose to lock it with a key. A golden wound is here inside me To...

Writer Syed Emdad Ali

Mohammad Abdul AwwalAli, Syed Emdad (1875-1956), was a writer, editor. He was born in a family in Bikrampur, Munshiganj. He had to earn his bread while at school and college. He passed the Matriculation...

Educationist, linguist Golam Maksud Hilali

Tasiqul Islam :Golam Maksud Hilali (1900-1961), educationist, linguist and litterateur, was born on 30 November 1900 at Fulbari in Sirajganj. He obtained his MA in Persian (1924) and in Arabic (1932), BL (1927) and...

Writer, playwright Zia Haider

Writer, playwright Zia Haider

Literature Desk :Zia Haider (18 November 1936 2 September 2008) was a writer, poet, playwright, translator and professor. His full name was Sheikh Faisal Abdur Rouf Mohammad Ziauddin Haider. He was the founder President...