Tribute

NEWS REPORT / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, renowned Kenyan author and literary icon, dies at 87

The revolutionary novelist, playwright, and fierce advocate, passed away on May 28 in Bedford, Georgia

Four artistes join forces for Nazrul Jayanti tribute album

In tribute to National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s birth anniversary, a new album titled “The Nazrul Tapes—Reflected by Jahid Nirob” reimagines four of his classic songs. Musician Jahid Nirob has infused the timeless compositions with modern arrangements, blending electronic elements to reinterpret Nazrul’s works through a contemporary lens.

TRIBUTE / The poet who declared birth was his eternal sin

Remembering the stateless poet Daud Haider

Remembering Satyendra Nath Bose

SN Bose’s recruitment at DU was by the institution’s first vice-chancellor, PJ Hartog.

POETRY / One who stands alone in the crowd

A lonely soul treads on the street cultivating the sweet pain of defunct love; like a solitary artist, he rambles through the alleys of the city

TRIBUTE / ‘Je Jole Agun Jole’ was first published under the title ‘Kar Ki Noshto Korechilam’

'I dedicated a lion's share of the life I've lived to poetry. I've thought of poetry as a guiding star'

POETRY / The shabby turtle without a shore

Some label you a poet of love so true

TRIBUTE / Story of an ‘Unaccompanied Minor’: A tribute to Matthew Perry

It's almost as if Matthew Perry was destined to write this book.

Matia Chowdhury: When personality surpasses politics

After the completion of one year in prison, she quoted from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: "Don't grieve dearie/trouble lasts an hour/but life lasts forever."

March 8, 2015
March 8, 2015

Obama in Selma: Our march is not over

US President Barack Obama rallied a new generation of Americans in a forceful speech in Selma, Alabama on the 50th anniversary

March 1, 2015
March 1, 2015

Avijit’s body handed over to DMC for research

Body of slain writer and blogger Avijit Roy has been handed over to Dhaka Medical College for medical research after people pay last tributes to him at Dhaka University

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