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How Bangladesh is embracing the mime

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Bangla Press Desk: Have you seen someone with a white-painted face, striped clothes, and silent, exaggerated expressions? You've just met a mime. With every gesture and expression, they invite you into a quiet world full of imagination,...

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U.S Expat poet Akram Bhuiya's first poetry book ‘O Mankind, Where Is Your Humanity’ Published

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

  Noman Sabit: A new chapter has begun in the literary journey of Boston-based poet Akram Bhuiya. His debut poetry collection, "O Mankind, Where Is Your Humanity?", has recently been published and is already generating interest and discus...

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'Amar Muktijuddho Amar Ahankar 1971' is an impeccable reminisce

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

Chhabed Sathee: Expatriate freedom fighter and journalist Harun Chowdhury has been living in Virginia for a long time. He is simultaneously a writer, journalist and poet. Born in Dhaka in 1951, Harun Chowdhury, a heroic freedom fighter, trained in...

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Tagore, Gitanjali and the Nobel

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali or Song Offerings by the renowned Irish poet William Butler Yeats. But many admirers of Tagore have commented over the years tha...

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Mother

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

None can fathom her beauty in younger days if they hadn't seen her wrapped tight in her teens in jaba-printed salwar kameez. There goes Her Majesty, passersby would purr, eyeing her honed features – the moon face, the button nose – as she sa...

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O Herald of the New (Hey nutan)

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

O herald of the new, Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again. Reveal yourself from the midst of a mist-filled sky Like the sun. Burst through the heart of the void and unveil yourself. Let life be revealed as triumphant Let the i...

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The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on— Another birthday coursing Towards the day of death. Seated on his movable stand At the border of minuscule births and deaths Who is the artist weaving A garland out of innumerable Rabindranaths...

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Ghalib Ki Dilli (Part II)

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened to the public in 2011 and has remained on my bucket list of literary heritage destinations. Zig-zagging through honey...

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Dressed Like a Daydream

by Banglapress • 1 week ago

The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-black blue robe – unabashedly studded with thousands and thousands of crystals – in perfect synchronisation with the...

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