Sher-e-Bangla : In memoriam
Prof. Md. Moslemuddin Sikder :Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, popularly known as ‘Sher-e-Bangla (1873-1962) was the first Muslim Mahyor of Calcutta City Corporation, the first Muslim...
New Nation Supplement
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...
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,...
Sacrifices and achievements
Bashir Al Helal :Language Movement began in 1948 and reached its climax in the killing of 21 February 1952, and ended in the adoption of...
Bangabandhu—The Great Hero of History
Golam Sarwar :I have come to speak about The greatest Bangali of all ages Whose heart had tremendous love for humans; I have come to...
March 1971 in history
Anisuzzaman :When, on 1 March 1971, President General Yahya Khan, military ruler of Pakistan, postponed the session of the National Assembly which was scheduled to...
Journey towards development
Anu Mahmud :Bangladesh has made significant strides in its journey towards development in the recent past. This fact has been widely recognized by the international...
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...