An ode to freedom
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,...
Literature
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...