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Remembering freedom fighter Hasan Mahmood Delwar

Mahbubar Rahman

"All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely player;They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages." ï¿½William Shakespeare With numbing grief and deep anguish, I bear in my mind the shocking news of the sad demise of my great friend ...

Birds on wings: emblem of beauty and freedom

Mahbubar Rahman

Meticulously garbed in all whites and a speck of reds, four in numbers they were my princes---the small birds. They looked agile and nimble throughout the day from dawn to dusk. They hum, they warble feebly in dulcet tone at the break of dawn. As the sunlight gets brighter, their sounds get louder and as ...

Money tastes sweeter than honey!

Mahbubar Rahman

Emerging from a land which we call it Scandinavia, where Viking warriors once lived and ventured to conquer lands across the shores of the sea of Baltic under the sharp edge of the Viking sword, two young men and two young women from Sweden with a musical band named ABBA raised the storm in both ...

Silencing cries of foxes on wintry nights

Mahbubar Rahman

Notwithstanding the fact that howling of the foxes seems to be an object of fantasy to the new generation of the mainstream population of Bangladesh living in the concrete jungle of urban areas, yet there is hardly any elderly person of 50 years plus in Bangladesh who have not heard the howling of foxes either ...

Winning a war by a 'non-martial' race!

Mahbubar Rahman

Bengalis were labelled acerbically as a 'non-martial' and 'non-sporting' race perhaps because of their physical stature and colour and were abominably looked down by the Pakistani ruling class during the period of 23 years of subjugation under Pakistan. The former eastern wing of Pakistan what is now independent Bangladesh represented 56 per cent of total ...

Humans’ lasting love for domestic animals

Mahbubar Rahman

Legend has it, after long-way fall from the doors of heaven, with fig-leaf woven mundane sartorial, Eve landed in the Arab land and Adam in the Adam's peak in Sri Lanka where his footprint on a huge stone tablet still attracts thousands of tourists who venture to ascend to the height of the peak. After ...

Observing Muharram in bygone days

Mahbubar Rahman

Muharram is the first month of Hijri Calendar. This month bears special significance in Muslims' life. As per Islamic faith and belief, Allah graced this month with many significant occurrences ever since this world came into being. Day 10 of Muharram which is known as Ashura is believed to be one of the few glorious ...

Disobedience: A chronic social problem

Mahbubar Rahman

If we look longer back and browse the history of human race, we can trace elements of disobedience in the characteristic features of humans ever since the race was created. God created Adam and Eve in the heaven out of His great love and compassion and granted them with the comforts in the Garden of ...

Never dying Mephistopheles — the trader of souls!

Mahbubar Rahman

In Faust, German epic poets Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) gave an extensive narrative in all literary grandeur how Dr Faustus-a depressed and bored scholar called on Mephistopheles, disciple of the king of devils - Lucifer for power and further knowledge with magical power. Long years before Goethe wrote the epic poem Faust, English poet Christopher ...