May Day
Julian Parrish : Spize, Parson and Matson of Haymarket In Chicago wakeup from old tomb and let Start again agitation like 1st May in 1986To save laborers from business men tricks. Even now we...
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Lessons of May Day
Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury :The observance of the May Day on the first day of the month of May every year is an international event. During the 18th and 19th Centuries there were no fixed...
Poem: Bangla New Year
Md. Ziaul Haque :Come the beginning of a dawn new,Ready we are to receive you,With Rabindranath’s immortal lyrics,And the verses of Nazrul that everyone seeks. We are what you are,Being the mirror of a...
Emergence of Bengali New Year Calendar
Shamsuzzaman Khan :As an old saying goes: “Bengalis have thirteen festivals in twelve months.” This experience-based adage gives an impression of a society which was affluent, cohesive and joyful. It further reveals that the...
Celebrating Bangla New Year
Muhammad Quamrul Islam :It’s an age old tradition of Bengali to open fresh account-book/ ledger on the occasion of New Year Day countrywide by businessmen irrespective of size and wealth, extending invitations to their...
Social dimensions of Pahela Baishakh
Poyla Boishakh (Pohela Boishakh) is the first first day of the Bengali calendar, celebrated in Bangladesh and West Bengal, and in Bengali communities in Assam, Tripura and Orissa and all over India as well...
Welcoming Bangla New Year
M. Mizanur Rahman :Pahela Baishakh is traditionally the most ebullient festival in the life of Bangalee people who get together irrespective of caste or creed and turn out happily with colourful dress with festive...
Independence Day 2017: Talking about Independence Day
Anisuzzaman :The appearance of March after February is as inevitable as the materialization of the dream of independence after the language movement, of March 26 after February 21. Our twenty-four-year long attachment with Pakistan...
Independence Day 2017: International media on Bangabandhu’s trial, release and home-coming
Dr. Abu Md. Delwar Hossain :Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave birth to a nation, a country, as well as a new map. Just as he had the required leadership quality for attaining these, similarly...
Independence Day 2017: Thoughts on our Liberation War
Md. Shairul Mashreque and M. Abul Kashem Mozumder :War of Liberation in 1971 was the culmination of a series of seminal events like language movement(1952), 1954 election, Agartala conspiracy case against Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,...
Independence Day 2017: Independence and National Day
Muhammad Quamrul Islam :We were 30 years old at end of first decade in service career in March1971 as Dhaka University batch 1961 beaming with Bengali nationalistic spirit in continuation of democratic practices in...
Independence Day 2017: Poem
For my motherland Al Mahmud What else does a poet have to offer? You take my filtered language Take my poem- My blood is valued more than that of the ink of my pen....