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How tongue keeps its tastes right

Weekend Plus Desk :Signals sent by tongue’s taste cells prevent the brain from confusing between bitter and sweet tastes, a study has showed. Humans perceive taste through thousands of tiny sensory organs called taste...

Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

Literature Desk :Percy Bysshe Shelley was born at Field Place, Sussex, in 1792, the son of a well-to-do landowner. At the age of ten, he was sent to Syon House Academy near London. There...

POEM: My flute plays Behag

POEM: My flute plays Behag

Shamsul Alam Belal : Someone with silver charm still haunts me Hanging on my neck, Reminds me of a promise of my tender age Striking on my back. The harder I try to make...

POEM: My flute plays Behag

POEM: My flute plays Behag

Shamsul Alam Belal : Someone with silver charm still haunts me Hanging on my neck, Reminds me of a promise of my tender age Striking on my back. The harder I try to make...

Great Poet Amir Khusro

Literature Desk :Khusro was born in 1253 A D in Patiyala, India, His paternal ancestors belonged to the nomadic tribe of Hazaras from Transoxiana, who crossed the river Indus and migrated to India in...

Sukanta Bhattacharya: Poet of have not’s

Sukanta Bhattacharya: Poet of have not’s

Anik Mahmud :Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926-1947) Marxist poet, was born on 15 August 1926 at his maternal uncle’s home in Kolkata. His paternal home was in Kotalipara in Faridpur district. His father, Nibaranchandra Bhattacharya, was...

Novelist Syed Waliullah

Novelist Syed Waliullah

Shafiul Alam :Syed Waliullah (1922-1971) novelist, short story writer and playwright, was born on 15 August 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. His father Syed Ahmadullah was a government officer. His father’s posting at different...