Literature

Mohammad Asad :Born in 1940 in a village called Shapkhola in Jhenidah (formerly a subdivision of greater Osman Jessore district) Zazabar, recipient of a number of awards, earned his post graduate degrees in History and English from the universities of the Punjab and Dhaka in 1966 and 1975. A pro-life writer with good command of English and Bengali, Zazabar has published sixteen books so far. Keen sense of visualisation, objective condition of the milieu, perception of the present vis-a-vis the...

Fowzia Huda :It’s not far away from my residence an old-people’s asylum is newly built called “Santo-Nir”. This asylum, a bungalow-pattern blue-colored tin-shed house is surrounded by the wall having huge big trees. Some fifteen to twenty old men and women reside here. They want to stay here anyway in peace and good-condition only. Here happiness seems chilly ice and sorrows’ burning fire. They all appear to be the residents on a deep narrow valley with steep sides of the...

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts : (From the previous issue) Oats were scarce and precious, so Rusty did not try that experiment again. But the oats were not wasted; for a pair of saucy, smartly feathered “Whiskey Jacks,” or Canada jays-known to Rusty as “Moose-birds” who frequented the moose-yard, lost no time in picking them up, to the very last grain. Nothing was small enough to escape their bright, confiding, impudent eyes.Meanwhile the body of the dead calf, rigid and...

She dwelt among the untrodden waysWilliam Wordsworth She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! -Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! LoveRashidul Bari My...

James Thurber :This story about the family dog is from My Life and Hard Times, which Thurber says is based on “the little perils of routine living.” The real humour of this story and others about the Thurber family is the matter-of-fact way members of the family accept the preposterous things that happen regularly in their Columbus, Ohio, household. Critic Clifton Fadiman says that James Thurber plays two roles as a writer, the Sane Innocent and the Confused Innocent. He...

The bond of eternity Shamsul Alam Belal I am now yours, totally submitted to your love From now on, we’ll fly just like a pair of dove Across the sky, which is boundless all around Like our love, a mutual gain, but not unbound. Let’s swim in the sea of blue in solemn charm, Let’s discover ourselves again in that old farm....