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TOMORROW'S NATION BUILDERS
Ecstatic high achievers and proud parents of tomorrow's nation-builders filled the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium
BCB arranges dinner party
MEDAL LIST
Mascarenhas punished
Van Gaal needs improvement
Yes to Shamsur Rahman, no to death!
Shamsur Rahman -- our foremost poet -- struggled to write against death even when he was sure that death was approaching him. He died on August 17. But the spirit of Rahman's struggle for life stubbornly refuses to die. For that very spirit comes to characterise Rahman's own poetry. Although some of his early works do not range beyond a certain kind of romanticism, Shamsur Rahman hardly romanticises death itself. Rather he tells us unequivocally and even repeatedly: "I don't like death."...
'We have only one Shamsur Rahman'
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An icon of our freedom
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Farewell not my friend
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...
Deeply rooted in own tradition
The year 1960 was significant for Bengali literature since this year saw the publication of Prothom Gan Ditio Mritur Aage (First Song Before the Second Death), a collection of poems by young poet Shamsur Rahman....
Crime and violence in Dhaka city
Dhaka city today faces a tremendous escalation of urban violence and Crime. High growth of population, poverty, inequality and weak governance structures are the reasons mentioned by all as root causes for this deterioration of law and order....
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
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Nuclear power for Bangladesh
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The trial of Colonel Abu Taher
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Governance
It is true that the first and foremost precondition for any democracy to function properly is to hold regular elections in order to ensure rule by the majority and to make the elected accountable to the electorate. However, the observation of this phenomenon around the globe may not testify the fact that only holding elections are roads to democracy and ensuring proper human rights. If this would have been the case, then democracy in Bangladesh would have fared much better, but according to many reports Bangladesh is lagging behind in ensuring proper protection to journalists (often harassed by the law enforcing agencies), checking police atrocities on peaceful demonstrations, while widespread corruption is depriving many from their rightful benefits, a biased judiciary and...
