- Al Mahmud is one of the best Bangla poets and writers of Bangladesh.He was born in Brahmanbaria district.Mahmud started his career as a journalist.He was recognised as an outstanding poet after the publication of his volumes of verse Lok Lokantor in 1963.Later works such as Kaler Kalosh,Mayabi Purda Dula Otho,Sonali Kabin etc established his position as one of the most prominent poets of the country.In addition to writing poetry ,Al Mahmud has writen short stories, novels ,and essays.He is often said as having enriched bengali poetry by copious use of regional dialects.After the liberation war Bangladesh in1971,he joined the Daily Ganakantha as assistent editor.He was jailed for a year for being very critical of then Awama Leage government.Later he joined Bangladesh Shilpokola Academy and retired as its director.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Al Mahmud
Kaki Nazrul Islam
- Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in the village of Churulia in the Burdwan District of Bengal.Nazrul began attending the maktab where he studied the Quran and other scriptures ,islami philosophy, and theology.Studying up to class 10,Nazrul did not appear for the matriculation pre test examination,enlisting in the Indian army in 1917at the age of eighteen.Nazrul left the army in 1920 and settled in Culcatta.His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular tittle of Bidhori kobi. Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is official reconised as the national poet of Bangladesh and commemoreted in India.He died in1974 in Dhaka.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Satyendranath Dutta
- Satyendranath Dutta was a Bengali poet.He was in 1882.He was an expert in many disciplines of intellectual enquiry including medieval Indian history,culture,and mythology.He composed poems and initially composed poems for the Bengali magazine Bharati.Although his stylistic nuances during this stage reflect theinfluances Michael Madhusudan Dutta,Akshay Kumar Boral,Debendranath Sen.His later poetry illustrates a greater reasonance with the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore .Nevertheless he maintained his distinctive poetic style.He is considered the wizerd of rhymes or [chhonder jadukar].His famous works are Banu O Bina,Fular fasal,Kuha O keha,Tuler Likhon etc.He died on june 26,1922.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Golam Mostafa
Golam Mostafa was born at Manuharpur Shailkapa thana, Jessore. His father name was Golam Rabbani who was a folk poet. Golam Mostafa passed B.A from Ripon College in 1918 and B.T from David Here Training College in 1922. In the mean time he started teaching at Barakpure Government School in 1920. Though known mostly as a poet .Golam Mostafa was a skilled writer of both prose and poetry . His poetic works include Raktarag ,Khosroj, Kaya Kahiny,Banyadam, Hashnahena etc. His Bishwanabi is a popular book about the life of prophet Muhammad SM and is often read aloud at milads.He retired as headmaster of Faridpur Zilla School in 1949. He died in 1964.
Farrukh Ahmed
Farrukh Ahmed was a poet and writer of Bangladesh.He was born in the villageof Shrepur Upazila of Magura District.He was the second son of Syed Hatem Ali and Begum Rawshan. He was an intelligent poet of Bangla literature. He is widely known as the poet of Islamic Renaissance. His poems reflect the Arabic and Persian language legacy in Bangla and are replete with Arabic and Persian words. His famous works are Naufal O Hatem, Majhi, Sirazam Munira, Pakhir Basa etc. He was awarded Bangla Academy prize, Unesco prize and Ekusha Padhok etc.He died in 1974.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta ,India into a wealthy Brahmin family.He was educated at home ,and although at seventeen ,he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies.Although Tagore wrote successfully in all genres ,he was first of all poet.Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi, Sonartori, Gitangoli,Gitimalya, and Balaka. For his Gitangoli ,he was awarded The Novel Prize in literature in 1913.He is the author of several volumes of short stories,a number of novels,among them Ghora ,Ghare Baire ,and Yoga.Besides these ,he wrote musical dramas ,dance dramas,essay of all types,travel diaries etc.He died on august 7,1944.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Palli kobi Jasim uddin
Palli kobi Jasim uddin was born on 1 january 1903 at Tambulkhana village in Faridpur District.He started writting poems at an early age.As a college student, he wrote his celebrated poem Kabar. This poem was placed in the entrance Bangla Textbook while he was still a student of Calcutta University. He was a lecturerof Bangla literature of Dhaka University. He was noted for his depiction of rural life and nature from the viewpoint of rural people.this had earned him fame as Palli kobi.Rakhili, nokshi kanther Math,Baluchar, Sojon Badiyar Ghat,Matir Kanna, Hashu etc are his famous poetry.He died in1976.
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