When we cease to have rhythm, we are dead. And we cease to have poetry, we are spiritually dead, one way or another.
To speak of place is to speak of the topical, the toponymical, and the topographical.
There is far more to be said about Serajul Islam Choudhury's significance as an intellectual and literary-cultural critic.
Today – June 23 – marks the 87th birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury.
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) has been customarily characterized as a rebel poet, particularly, if not exclusively, because of his 1922 poem called “Bidrohi” (the Rebel)—a poem that fiercely stages his political, linguistic, even metrical rebellion all at once.
The question was already raised by some: Did Shakespeare write mainly for children? So-called "pop" Shakespeare criticism answered that question in the affirmative.
Today—March 14—marks the 46th death anniversary of Jasim Uddin (1903-1976). Popularly called “palli kabi” (folk poet), Jasim Uddin is also considered a major Bangla poet.
Our Bhasha Andolan—the Language Movement—was undoubtedly a major event in our political history.
When we cease to have rhythm, we are dead. And we cease to have poetry, we are spiritually dead, one way or another.
To speak of place is to speak of the topical, the toponymical, and the topographical.
There is far more to be said about Serajul Islam Choudhury's significance as an intellectual and literary-cultural critic.
Today – June 23 – marks the 87th birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury.
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) has been customarily characterized as a rebel poet, particularly, if not exclusively, because of his 1922 poem called “Bidrohi” (the Rebel)—a poem that fiercely stages his political, linguistic, even metrical rebellion all at once.
The question was already raised by some: Did Shakespeare write mainly for children? So-called "pop" Shakespeare criticism answered that question in the affirmative.
Today—March 14—marks the 46th death anniversary of Jasim Uddin (1903-1976). Popularly called “palli kabi” (folk poet), Jasim Uddin is also considered a major Bangla poet.
Our Bhasha Andolan—the Language Movement—was undoubtedly a major event in our political history.
Today—February 17—marks the 123rd birth anniversary of Jibanananda Das (1899-1954), recognised today as one of the greatest Bengali poets of all time.
Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873) is widely regarded as the first modern Bangla poet. Well before Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976), Madhusudan is even reckoned as the first rebel poet in Bangla literature, although he is by no means a revolutionary like Nazrul.
