Saturday | February 07, 2026 | Dhaka
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 suddenly struck by the beauty of the grass, the...
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 ago I first explored Calcutta, visited Tagore’s family home,...
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, alienation from nature from ourselves, from life’s unifying essence...
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 with sedition for his poem ‘The Coming of Anandamoyee’,...
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 for humanity in the realm of his poetical works....
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 capital in 1911). He joined the staff of the...
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 the works, beneficial and good,half must be credited to...
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 sacredness. These are Lailat-ul- Qadr, Lailat-ul-Mi’raj, the nights of...
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 wa sallam. It is reported in the authentic Ahadith...
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 has not been broken up into fragments By narrow...
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 two most persistent drives in life : to bring...
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 shade and light along with the appropriate imageries and...