From Now On At first look at the website If not look at the fax If at all unavailable The search at internet. After saying so He went away hastily To his car that was waiting at the office… Continue reading
Poems of SIDDIQUE MAHMUDUR RAHMAN
We’ve turned into Islands Each of us now have turned into isolated islands There are hundreds of miles apart from each of these islands Or lofty mountains between one another, or frightening abyss! Temperament, upbringing, mood, action and deeds… Continue reading
Poems of MATIN BAIRAGI
In Uncertain Future … And then sound of falling and breaking down all around I thought and I was at a loss at the shattering of the hill All the energy is exhausted, light is wiping out I am standing… Continue reading
Poems of MUNIR SIRAJ
Counting Time My poems will not be published in this season I’ve nor written about the Rainbow-clad sarees Spangled and embroidered with golden threads, Not about the smile on her attractive lips Not about love and beauty and adoration… Continue reading
Poems of MUHAMMAD NURUL HUDA
Travelogue The key could not be found, they quickly broke down lock of your door You didn’t tell anything. They freed you in wooden box, the Earth closed down its backside door You didn’t tell anything. Keeping aside the… Continue reading
AAP result is biggest-ever Victory in state polls
The Aam Aadmi Party has set a record in India with the election that it swept in the capital. The party, fronted by Arvind Kejriwal, won 67 of 70 seats in Delhi, which is nearly 96 per cent, reports NDTV.com…. Continue reading
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hosain (1880-1932)
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hosain was born in 1880 in the village of Pairaband in the colonial British province of Bengal Presidency, which later became the northern part of Bangladesh. Born into an upper-class landowning Muslim family, Rokeya was not allowed to… Continue reading
THE ZAMINDARI DAK , HISTORY OF INDIA, MUGHALS.
A special attention should be given to the system of courier or postal services developed or maintained by the Zamindari Dak landed gentry of bengal and its adjoining areas, since the reign of Emperor Akber. The method of conveying messages in… Continue reading
NOBEL LAUREATE RABINDRANATH TAGORE THROUGH PHILATELY (BIPS)
Rabindranath Tagore (rightly pronounced as Robindronath Thakur) was the first Asian to receive Nobel Prize on Literature in 1913. Tagore was a poet, a lyricist, a novelist, a short story writer, an essayist, an artist, a social reformer, a philosopher,… Continue reading
Poem of SYED SHAMSUL HAQUE
SYED SHAMSUL HAQUE[1] Lonely Poet, Deserted Restaurant Write up in the brain. The restaurant close by. Asharh turned up in bundles of clouds It will make you feel dejected, destitute- the roads are all dug up Who knows when those… Continue reading
Poem of SHAHID QUADRI
SHAHID QUADRI[1] Insurrection In the garden of Manzul Elahi We are sitting in the dappled evening A few of us. We talked, of many a subject Some said of Bangabandhu, In this connection about murdered Allende and Some commented about… Continue reading
Poem of AL MUJAHIDI
AL MUJAHIDI[1] Fanciful Painting – Our planet is going to be destroyed at midnight At this intense ruin, how could you remain solemn, O woman? I sing the hymn of silence. – There’s no one called Supreme Being golden provisions?… Continue reading
Poem of AL MAHMUD
AL MAHMUD[1] Poet’s exercise book is flying away It seems I was going somewhere, some other horizon, I turn back, there’s no one behind me I’m oscillating in the wind- blowing up, your affection As if is engulfing me. Both… Continue reading
Why I translate poems?
Siddique Mahmudur Rahman In 1954, I was eight, when my father started subscribing two English newspapers at our home, ‘The Statesman’ of Kolkata and ‘The Dawn’ of Karachi. We were then living at Calcutta (Kolkata), because my father, Fazlur Rahman,… Continue reading
Bangladesher Kavita: (Poems of Bangladesh): What is it?
Bangla literature is one of the most ancient literature of the world. Kobita or Kavya is the most ancient form of Bangla literature. Bangla kavya or Bangla kabita emerged from mystic genre of Bangalee people. Bangalees are predominantly poetic in… Continue reading
Postal Developments of Dhaka City
Abstract As a capital, though, Dhaka city is four hundred years old, it was known as an important township in different names from time immemorial. It is older than most of the cities of eastern India. The Bangla term of… Continue reading