Literature

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....

– Sk NazrulWar no more, I seek peacePeace O calm and quiet like milk-white catkin Like pigeons flying in the blue sky Like grazing cow in the field wide open. I seek peace like these Like sweet fragrance of night jasmine The autumn flower that embraces dropping dews And the rose petals that diffuse fragrance While dropping downward. I want that kind of peace. I seek peace of gallinule tiptoeing Inside aquatic Kalmi cluster. I seek the peace Of bamboo groves drooping...

Literature Desk :Zia Haider (18 November 1936 2 September 2008) was a writer, poet, playwright, translator and professor. His full name was Sheikh Faisal Abdur Rouf Mohammad Ziauddin Haider. He was the founder President of Nagorik Nattya Sampraday and founder of the Bangladesh Institute of Theater Arts. He wrote books of poems, plays and translated several plays. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 2001 and Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1977. Early life & educationHaider...

Contd from Page 8 :By contrast, Marianne’s older sister, Elinor, is the guiding light of ‘sense,’ or prudence and discretion, whose constancy toward her lover, Edward Ferrars, is rewarded by her marriage to him after some distressing vicissitudes.Pride and Prejudice describes the clash between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich and aristocratic landowner. Although Austen shows them intrigued by each other, she reverses the convention of ‘first impressions’: ‘pride’ of rank and fortune...