Friday, April 29, 2011

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.

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