আন্দিজান ১ আন্দিজানে এখনও সবকিছু শান্ত। শহরের বাইরে উঁচু দেওয়ালের আড়ালে বারো বছর বয়সী বাবর (বাবর অর্থ সিংহ) মির্জা মত্ত হয়ে যুদ্ধবিদ্যা শিখছে। মাঠের ওপর দিয়ে জোর ছুটছে তার ঘোড়া, এবারে লাগাম ছেড়ে দিয়ে ধনুকের ছিলায় টান দিয়ে সর্বশক্তি দিয়ে… Continue reading
আখ্সি
১ উঁচু টিলার ওপর তৈরী করা আখ্সির কেল্লা রাতের অন্ধকারে কালো পাহাড়চূড়ার মত দেখাচ্ছে। টিলার পায়ের তলাতেই কাসানসাই নদী এসে মিলেছে সির-দরিয়ার সঙ্গে- দূরে থেকেই শোনা যায় দুই পাহাড়ী খরস্রোতা নদীর ঢেউগুলি পরস্পরের সঙ্গে ধাক্কা খাচ্ছে আর তীরে ধাক্কা দিয়ে… Continue reading
কুভা
হিজরী ৮৯৯ (১৪৯৪ খ্রীষ্টাব্দ)। গ্রীষ্মকাল। ফরগানার উত্তপ্ত আকাশে ঘন মেঘ পাক খাচ্ছে, সারাদিন চাপা গুমোট গরমের পর সন্ধাবেলায় বৃষ্টি নামলো মুষলধারে। লালামাটির পাহাড়গুলোর মধ্যে দিয়ে বয়ে চলা কুভাসাইয়ের পানি অল্পক্ষণের মধ্যেই লাল মেটে রং ধারণ করে ফুলে উঠলো। যেন রক্ত… Continue reading
SIDDIQUE MAHMUDUR RAHMAN: A short Resume
SIDDIQUE MAHMUDUR RAHMAN, (born: 4 September 1946, Jessore) , is an ardent researcher, prolific litterateur, a successful translator, an efficient editor and printing and publication specialist. Father, Fazlur Rahman, served in the Education and Foreign service during Pakistan period, had… Continue reading
Being in love with one’s language
Mahfuzur Rahman makes some points on a volume of poetry. Most of us Bengalis profess to love our mother tongue. Most of us also think of the language movement as a quest for national identity. Twenty-first February 1952 stands out… Continue reading
Travels of Tagore
Between 1878 and 1932, Tagore visited more than 30 countries on five continents; many of these trips were crucial in familiarising non-Indian audiences with his works and spreading his political ideas. In 1912, he took a sheaf of his translated works… Continue reading
Tomas Tranströme was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 201
Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet whose sometimes bleak but graceful work explores themes of isolation, emotion and identity while remaining rooted in the commonplace, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy praised Mr…. Continue reading
25 Baishakh – Our paean to the Bard
Rabindranath Tagore goes on occupying a very large segment of our collective literary consciousness. And as Bangla-speaking people in Bangladesh, in West Bengal, indeed all across the Bangalee diasora observe today the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet,… Continue reading
Rabindranath Tagore – The memoirs and the biographies
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize, created much enthrallment among the European and American communities after the publication of the Gitanjali (Song Offerings), in November 1912 from the India Society of London. A novelist, short story… Continue reading
The poet’s mystique
My first encounter with Rabindranath Tagore was on a cold winter’s day in early 1964. He was there as a sketch in pencil, on the mantelpiece of a Bengali home in Quetta. The flowing beard, the penetrating eyes, that sense… Continue reading
REFLECTONS On Tagore, as a way of not letting go
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate, Harvard University Press has just published The Essential Tagore, the largest single volume of his work available in English. Tagore was as prolific and… Continue reading
Celebrations in Stratford
William Shakespeare was “born under a rhyming planet†at the building now known as ‘The Birthplace’ in Henley Street in 1564. He died in 1616 on the same day — April 23 — and was buried in Stratford’s Holy Trinity… Continue reading
Postal Developments of Dhaka City
Siddique Mahmudur Rahman 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… Continue reading
Exile
If the poet is exiled The stability of the Nature is disrupted Yellow leaves of the discoloured Earth Is burned down to ashes by the scorching Sun With great flames. Smoke engulf green Nature- like rusty nails of the fence… Continue reading
Postman of Inertia seeks Slumber’s Address
Postman of inertia seeks slumber’s site in your eyes My silent journey to the night’s fatigue goes alone Dense forest of tresses are the surges of river, parting of hair is a lonely path In the remote unknown homestead, I’m… Continue reading
SIDDIQUE MAHMUDUR RAHMAN
SIDDIQUE MAHMUDUR RAHMAN, (born: 4 September 1946, Jessore) , is an ardent researcher, prolific litterateur, a successful translator, an efficient editor and printing and publication specialist. Father, Fazlur Rahman, served in the Education and Foreign service during Pakistan period, had… Continue reading