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Ustad Bismillah Khan, a musician who reveled in the sound of shehnai in Varanasi

104th birth anniversary

Iftakhair Hossen

Ustad Bismillah Khan, a musician who reveled in the sound of shehnai in Varanasi

Without Bismillah Khan, we wouldn't have realized the true potential of a humble wind instrument known as Shehnai. Such was his impact in popularising Shehnai, a sub continental instrument belonging to the oboe class. What was regarded as a mere folk instrument went on to be recognized as a classical instrument. What more, it not ...

Waheedul Haque, a social and cultural reformer

Iftakhair Hossen

Waheedul Haque was a journalist, writer, musicologist and an expert and teacher of Tagore songs. He was also a cultural activist, a campaigner-activist for social-political-cultural causes, and an organiser of several cultural institutions and events. His full name was Abul Fatah Mohammad Waheedul Haque. He was born in the village of Vawal Manoharia in Keraniganj ...

Remembering Zillur Rahman Siddiqui on 92nd birth anniversary

Iftakhair Hossen

Professor Zillur Rahman Siddiqui was an eminent writer, academic and educationist. He was born at Durgapur in Jhenaidah in 1928. Siddiqui attended Bankura and Jalpaiguri Zilla Schools and matriculated from Jessore Zilla School in 1945 with distinction. Afterwards, he studied at Presidency College in Kolkata. He took his BA in 1950 and MA in 1951 ...

A Man of Many Talents

Nurul Momen’s 30th death anniversary observed

Iftakhair Hossen

Nurul Momen, a famous playwright who is known also as Natyaguru. He was a professor, educationist, playwright, director, actor, Belles letters writer, satirist, personal essayist, humorist, acclaimed orator, lawyer, broadcaster, philanthropist and essayist of Bangladesh. He is recognised as the pioneer of modern Bengali drama.Nurul Momen was born on 25 November, 1908, as son of ...

Jibanananda Das: The poet of melancholy and reincarnation

Iftakhair Hossen

February 17 marked the 121st birth anniversary of Jibanananda Das. On the ocassion, different socio-political and cultural organisations held various programmes.Jibanananda Das emerged as the most popular surrealist poet of modern Bengali literature. His unfamiliar poetic expression, selection of words and thematic preferences took time to reach readers' hearts.Jibanananda was born on February 17, 1899 ...

Kabir Chowdhury, a storehouse of knowledge and ideas

Iftakhair Hossen

February 9 marked the 97th birth anniversary of educationist, translator and author Kabir Chowdhury. He was also one of the pioneering figures of the movement against fundamentalism in Bangladesh. Chowdhury was born in 1923 in Brahmanbaria. His family hailed from Noakhali. With a master's in English literature - graduating in 1944 from Dhaka University - ...

Appraising the master of struggling people and their agonies

Ritwik Ghatak’s 44th death anniversary

Iftakhair Hossen

Appraising the master of struggling people and their agonies

Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) was a filmmaker, script writer and actor. His father Suresh Chandra Ghatak was a district magistrate, poet, playwright. His mother's name was Indubala Devi. His family moved to Kolkata in phases. The events like Bengal famine of 1943, communal riots of 1946, partition of Bengal in 1947, and some other events influenced ...

A Literary Genius

Madhusudan Dutt’s 196th birth anniversary

Iftakhair Hossen

Michael Madhusudan Dutta is referred to as the father of Bengali sonnet and a pioneer of Bengali literature. Dutta was born on January 25, 1824 in the village of Sagardari, under Jessore district (now in Bangladesh). His father, Rajnarayan Dutta, was a law practitioner in Kolkata. Madhusudan in his early years, was taught at home ...

The Wizard Of Plays

Remembering Selim Al-Deen

Iftakhair Hossen

Selim Al Deen- playwright, teacher, was born on August 18 in 1949 in Feni district. He passed his SSC examination in 1964 from Mangalkandi Secondary School of Senerkhil Village and HSC in 1966 from Feni College. He got admitted to first year BA Honours of the Bangla Department of Dhaka University in 1967. After studying ...

The Real on Reel, Without Sugarcoating

Chashi Nazrul Islam’s fifth death anniversary observed

Iftakhair Hossen

January 11 marked fifth death anniversary of noted film director and freedom fighter Chashi Nazrul Islam. On the occasion of his death anniversary, different cultural and social organisation arranged memorial meetings at different places in our country.Islam was born on October 23, 1941 at Shomoshpur village in Sreenagar upazila of Bikrampur district (aka Munshiganj) to ...