Gilbert Highet :The old gentleman was riding round his land. He had retired several years ago, after a busy career;...
Mohammad Daniul Huq and Aminur Rahman : (From the previous issue) The efforts at writing Bangla plays in the first phase on the basis of contemporary period and society continued with vigour in the second phase. The plays in this phase were varied and tried to portray the social realities. Several of Munier Chowdhury’s powerful plays, including some translated works, were published at this time. Munier Chowdhury’s Dandakaranya (1966) was written on the subject of contemporary society. His play Chithi...
The pathEdward ThomasRuning along a bank a parapet That saves from the precipitous wood below The level road, there is a path. It serves Children for looking down the long smooth steep. Between the legs of beech and yew, to where A fallen tree checks the sight : while men and women Content themselves with the road and what they see Over the bank, and what the children tell. The path, winding like silver, trickles on, Bordered and even invaded...
(From previous issue)Consider the word fetch, meaning to “go get and bring to.” Until recently a standard word of full dignity (“Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel”-I Kings 17:10), it has become slightly tainted. Perhaps the command latent in it is resented as undemocratic. Or maybe its use in training dogs to retrieve has made some people feel that it is an undignified word to apply to human beings. But, whatever the reason, there is...
Haiku :Ashraful Musaddeq Waiting good nighttime everyone sweet dream is on the pillow waiting for sunrise Wish grief and anguish two petals of lovely plant happy morning friend Worship the last day of spring a flower on the torso worship reviving The mistaken loveShamsul Alam Belal All silent words hidden into my unfiltered thoughts Tell me a tale of bereavement covered into a smile. All my warm breaths splashing along her bosom Make me a fool like the helpless shepherd...
Kazi Motahar Husain :As the natural beauty blossoms with the amalgamation of variety of the outer world, so does throw upward the unlimited mystery of human heart with the wonderful variety of the inner world’s thoughts and ideas. Someone’s inner nature is as soft and fragrant as Shefali1; someone’s as audacious as that of Hasnahena2. Someone’s as pliant as a reed, somebody’s as firm-footed as hills, someone’s as deep as the star-studded sky, and somebody’s as ever tumult as the...
Masum Billah :French historical novelist Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature who is relatively unknown outside...
Publisher: Farah Bilkis, Uttarkal, Shalmara Bhaban, Bardeshi, Aminbazar, Dhaka. Date of Publication : Boimela 2012, Falgun 1418. Compose : Md....
The Queen mourns and sheds tears for the KingNawab Faizunnessa Choudhurani Oh Lord, what makes you so cruel-hearted! Why sorrow follows sorrow?What’s that great sin I have committed?Oh Lord, what makes me, without any reason, disappointed?I have already lost my soul earlier.Oh Lord, when you took away my spouse,Since my life came to dead end;Alas Oh Lord! Why do you keep me alive on earth empty handed? Alas! Oh Lord! You took away my spouse and made me a widow...
M. Mizanur Rahman :What fascination that nature creates between the flowerand the butterflyis yet to be known. This is certainly the mystery of nature. While the bee takes outhoney from the flowerand puts it into its hivebut what juice is taken out from the flowerby the butterfly in its flitting strive? Not all flowers air out its fragrance.But each butterfly smells in every flower’s elegance.Does the bee take out sweet honeyfrom each flower?There are flowers of innumerable species And so are the butterflies!One...
Tasiqul Islam :Golam Maksud Hilali (1900-1961), educationist, linguist and litterateur, was born on 30 November 1900 at Fulbari in Sirajganj....
Michael Madhusudan Datta (born Jan. 25, 1824, Sagardari, Bengal, died June 29, 1873, Calcutta a great poet and dramatist was...