Saturday, April 30, 2011

Alauddin Al Azad

Alauddin Al Azad was born in dhaka.He passed ssc in 1947,hsc 1949.From Dhaka University, he passed BA honours at 1953 and MA 1954 is the same university .He was a very good student of bangla literature and also a professor .He was a modern Bangladeshi auther ,novelist ,and poet .He received his phd.degree from London University in 1970for his work Iswar  Gupter Jibon O Kabita.He was a first secondery of Bangladesh High Commission in Moskow.His literary works included in the currculum of school level ,secondery ,higher secondery and graduation level of Bengla literature in Bangladesh.His famous works are Manchitra ,Vorer Nodir Mohonay Jagoron ,Surjor Jalar Swapan ,Jouno Golpo Somogro nana etc.He died at his uttara residenc in the city  friday midnight.

Kalidas Ray

Kalidas Ray was born in Bardhaman  in India. He was a Bengali poet .His father was Jagendranath Ray.He was also a teacher .He had a significant way of writing.He was a descendant of the great Vaishanava poet Lochandas .During his teaching career ,he taught in various institutions like Barisha High School .He wrote in both Arabic and Persian .He was one of the greast poets of the Tagore era of Bengli literature.His poetry was specially influenced by Vaishnava thoughts .He wrote 19 books of verses.His famous poem include Chhatradhara,which describes a teacher appreation of his interaction with students .In addition to poetry , he also translated Sanskrit works and made a critical review of books .He breathed his last on 25 october 1975.

Kamini Roy

  1. Kamini Roy was born 12 october 1864 in the village of Basanda in Barisal district of Bangladesh .She was a leading Bengali poet,social worker and feminist from India.She was the first woman honours graduate from India.She was inclined towards literature  from a young age  and started composing poems at the age of eight .Her first book of poems Alo O Chhaya was published in 1889.She went out of her way to encourage other writers  and poets .1923,she visited Barisal and encouraged Sufia Kamal to continue writing .She lost her husband in1909.Her intense grief and pain over his premature death deeply affected her personal life and way reflected in her poems .Amongst her notable literary contribotions were Mahasweta,Pouronika,Dwip ODhup,Jibon Pathey ,etc.She died on27 september 1933. 

Friday, April 29, 2011

Jibananda Das

    Jibananda Das is the most popular Bengali poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam.He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist poetry to Bengali literature,at a period when it was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's romantic poetry.Indeed Jibananda Das's poetry is sometimes an outcome of very  profound feeling that is painted with imagery of a type and reality understable .He broke the traditional circular structure of poetry and the pattern of logical sequence of words ,lines ,and stanzas.On october 14,1954,he was unmindfully crossing a road near Calcutta'sDeshapriya park when he was hit by a tram.He died in hospital on october 22,1954,after eight days struggle with death ,close to midnight.  

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    Shamsur Rahman

    Shamsur Rahman was born in Dhaka in 1929.Shamsur Rahman was a Bengali poet ,journalist , and human rights advocate.He earned the designation unofficial poet laureate of Bangladesh with more than 60 volumes heartfelt often fiercely patriotic poetry. His best known poem Shadinata Tumi was composed in 1971 at the height of the war for indepedence from Pakistan.Although Rahman studied english literature at the University of Dhaka,he supported the campaign to retain Bengali as the official language of East Pakistan and his poetry reflected the nature,colloquial speech of Dhaka.Majore themes in his poetry and writings include liberal humanism,human relationship,romanticised rebellion of youth, the emergence of Bangladesh and consequent events in Bangladesh.

    Sufia kamal

    Sufia kamal was born in Shaestabad ,daughter of a distinguished zaminder family ,in Barisal.She is one of the most widely recognised cultural personalities in Bangladesh.Sufia kamal's first poem,Bashanti was published in the then influantial magazines Saogat in 1926.kamal's first litirary career take off after her first poetry publication .Her first book of poems Sanjher Maya came out in 1938.In 1937she published her first collection of short stories keya kanta.In 1947 when Shaptahik Begum was first published ,kamal became its first editor.During the mass uprising in 1969,which demanded the resignation of general Ayub khan ,she promoted to the cause by forming mohila sangram parishad.She was involved in the 1971 libaration war .her literary works are Mrttikar Ghran,Ekatterer Diary,Banibanyas Samay To Ar Nei, Ekale Amader kel etc.