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Aslam Sani :‘Your little leap ahead’ meansA giant progress of Bangladesh.Rivers in merriment mingle in seasClouds giggle in mountain peaksLike dancers waterfalls dance You are dear to all.‘Your little leap ahead’ meansA giant progress of Bangladesh. Fruitfulness in crop fieldsWaves of victory in rivers Struggle for ‘Language and liberation’You remain everywhere in Bengal.‘Your little leap ahead’ meansA giant progress of Bangladesh....

Ode To The West Wind O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,Who chariotest to their dark wintry bedThe winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,Each like a corpse within its grave, untilThine azure sister of the Spring shall blowHer clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in...

Dr Md Idris Bhuiyan :Though earlier I visited Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius and Philippines as many other visit, but this time I visited with my friend Abul Mansur Ahmed, Iqbal Hossain Chowdury and Kazi Burhan Uddin who are travelling for long with manpower business promotion. I have been the main feature of the Bangladesh experience with modernity. I have used the heroic figure of overseas Bangladeshi workers as an analogue for a nation in the throes of globalist modernisation. They who...