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Bhutan in off-season

Akhil Sharma :here is only one traffic light in Bhutan. It is at the top of the main road in Thimphu, the country’s capital. A...

Ashraf Siddiqui earned fame as a poet when he was a student in a village school. At that time he was praised by Rabindranath Tagore when he sent his poems to him. (April 30, 1940). Later he went to Visba-Bharati, Shanti Niketan for study and came very clo

Dr Ashraf Siddiqui: A tribute

Professor Anwarul Karim :he 92nd birth anniversary of one of the most praiseworthy sons of Bangladesh the poet-philosopher and the folklorist of international name and...

Jasim Uddin's talent as a poet developed early. As a College student, he wrote the poem 'Kobor' (Grave). The poem, a dramatic monologue of an old man talking to his grandson in front of his wife's grave, was included in school textbooks while Jasim Ud

Pollikobi Jasim Uddin

Bimal Guha :asim Uddin (1903-1976) poet and litterateur, was born on 1 January 1903 in his maternal uncle’s home at Tambulkhana in Faridpur. His father...