Bidhan Mitra - Celebrating Life 2018 3rd Prize Winner - Lyrics Contest

I am a writer, but I usually write articles.  A book with my articles is sold at every book fair, and one is set to be released at the Kolkata book fair next January. I usually don't write songs, but the eminent lyricist Mohammad Rafiquzzaman inspired me to write lyrics. And for the last few years I have been writing, which eventually lead me to winning this award. I am very happy to have won this award. When I started writing, I took a page from Mohammad Rafiquzzaman Sir's writings that I saw, and thought that I may win. I had that much confidence in my writing. Since the topic was architectural structures, I wrote about how people don't need to go abroad to see things. Bangladesh has a lot of amazing architectural wonders. It is hard to write about too many structures in one song. I mainly wrote about the historic ones. Since I am a writer, who has published around 10-11 article books, I already knew about this a lot.

Compiled by Ridwan Intisaar Mahbub and Joana Nomrata Mazumder