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Finance Minister’s Budget Speech

Finance Minister’s Budget Speech

(The following is the excerpts of text of budget speech by Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith in Parliament on Thursday, 5th June 2014. (From previous issue) Power and EnergyMadam Speaker84. Electricity: The ongoing...

Nazrul : A new era of Bengali poetry

Siddique Mahmudur Rahman :KAZI Nazrul Islam, known as the ‘Rebel’ poet in Bengali literature and the ‘Bulbul’ (Nightingale) of Bengali music, was one of the most colourful personalities of undivided Bengal between 1920 and...

Poet of love and freedom

Poet of love and freedom

Kazi Nazrul Islam was a poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi...

Works of Rabindranath Tagore

Black-and-white close-up photograph of a piece of wood boldly painted in unmixed solid strokes of black and white in a stylised semblance to “ro” and “tho” from the Bengali syllabary.Tagore’s Bengali-language initials are worked...

The great artist Rabindranath Tagore

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 shade and light along with the appropriate imageries and...

Tagore’s poems

Tagore’s poems

Rabindranath: without youShahjahan Kabir On the wings of white swans We are floating,Crossing a long distance … …Only we have in our heart Your eternal saying “Not here, not here, Somewhere, somewhere else”.We are...

The significance of May Day

Chris Remington :More than 127 years have passed since the infamous Chicago Haymarket protests. On May 1, 1886, approximately 35,000 workers walked off their jobs, demanding the standardisation of eight-hour workdays. Many labour historians...