The origin of Bangla new year and celebrating Pahela Baishakh
Syed Ashraf Ali :We celebrate Pahela Baishakh or the Bangla New Year’s Day. Everything under the sun looks gay and cheerful and colourful, one is...
New Nation Supplement
A new approach to Tagore’s music
Matthew Pritchard :What can Tagore’s music mean to the West? I’ll begin by explaining briefly my own involvement with Tagore’s music. More than a decade...
The Rebel within us : An introduction
Sajed Kamal :On the one hand are inequality, oppression, colonialism, tyranny, hypocrisy of all kinds, religious, moral or political greed, fanaticism, violence, racism, communalism, sorrow,...
Kazi Nazrul Islam : Poet of tolerance
Peter Custers :In November 1922, British colonial authorities issued an arrest warrant for the poet Nazrul Islam- a rising star of Bengali literature, charging him...
Nazrul : Protagonist of universal humanism
M.Mizanur Rahman :Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) was one of the great exponents for the freedom of human spirit having the outstanding expressive quality of love...
Nazrul’s rebellion
Nazrul left the army in 1920 and settled in Kolkata, which was then the Cultural capital of India (it had ceased to be the political...
Poem
Woman [Original: Nari] Kazi Nazrul IslamI sing the song of equality;In my view gender difference is essentially a triviality.Everything that is great in the world,all...
Shab-e-Barat
Syed Ashraf Ali :Of the nights in a year there are six which may safely be marked out for their grandeur and majesty, serenity and...
Reality of the holy night
Mufti Taqi Usmani :Sha’ban is one of the meritorious months for which we find some particular instructions in the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi...
Tagore’s poems
Where the mind is without fear :Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world...
Tagore : Embracing the world
Uma Das Gupta :There were various stages in the development of Rabindranath’s humanism. His deepening experience in relating to man and nature gave him his...
The great artist Rabindranath Tagore
M.Mizanur Rahman :The lustrous myriad-minded genius of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) has its reflection in his century-old poetry and prose Bangla literature. There are fountains of...