Ecstatic high achievers and proud parents of tomorrow's nation-builders filled the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium
Architect of South Africa's historic win over Australia, pacer Dale Steyn Tuesday said if the Proteas continue to play with the same zeal they would soon get rid of the 'chokers' tag.
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Matthew Hayden will not use the Sydney Test as a farewell and he remains in Australia's plans for 2009, according to the chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch. Hayden has held onto his spot for the third Test at the SCG and he is in a 12-man squad with the Victoria all-rounder Andrew McDonald and the fast bowlers Ben Hilfenhaus and Doug Bollinger, who won selection because of injuries to Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds and Shane Watson.
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Jagannath Hall became champions and Zahurul Haq Hall finished runners-up in the Dhaka University inter-hall swimming competition yesterday.
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I had the opportunity to travel to Europe on quite a few occasions in the past, on both personal and professional business. So, I had some ideas about their culture, tradition and advancement in different aspects of their life. Although I was scared of the shivering cold of the Scandinavian countries especially Norway situated in the extreme north of Europe, yet the thought of cold could not scare me from visiting Norway for a special reason this time. The reason was plain and simple -- witnessing Bangladesh's greatest achievement. Needless to mention, how glorious it is for a country or a nation to get a Novel Peace Prize and Bangladesh achieved it on the 35th year of its Independence. Whatever negative image we had in the world as a country of natural calamities and man-made...
In Shamsur Rahman the nation has lost a poet and I have lost a friend and a close co traveller in our literary journey. With poet Hasan Hafizur Rahman, Sayeed Atiqullah and Abu Zafar Obaidullah gone long before Rahman, I now feel icily alone as the sole surviving member of a generation of poets who took up pens in the early fifties of the twentieth century. After being in the writing business for over half a century, at the passing away of Shamsur Rahman I find myself lost for words even to record my tears for him and for the valiant time, when by writing in Bangla that was handed down to us, we successfully stood against the threats posed by the then Pakistani authorities to our language itself. Also, in the then East Bengal, we found that most of our people's literary and artistic...
