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Nazrul’s birth anniversary today

The nation will celebrate 109th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam today across the country with festivity and in a befitting manner.

To celebrate the day the Government has chalked out various programmes to be inaugurated by the Chief Adviser to the Caretaker Government Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed at a function at 10:00am at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city on Sunday.

Nazrul’s 109th birth anniversary today

The 109th birth anniversary of the national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, the voice of dissent and revolution whose poems and songs were a clarion call to the oppressed and the indignant, will be observed today. The government and several socio-cultural and political organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the day.

কবি সমুদ্র গুপ্ত, দাঁড়াও পথিকবর - নির্মলেন্দু গুণ

‘আমাদের ভাবনা-চিন্তার জগতে বাংলাদেশসহ বিশ্বজুড়ে যে বিশৃঙ্খল অবস্থা চলছে, উদ্বেগজনক হারে মানবদেহে ক্যান্সার ছড়িয়ে পড়ার সঙ্গে এর কোনো সম্পর্ক রয়েছে কি না, গবেষণা করে দেখা দরকার।’ মাত্র কদিন আগে ক্যান্সারে মারা যাওয়া একজন কবির কবিতার বইয়ের মোড়ক উন্মোচন অনুষ্ঠানে কবি সমুদ্র গুপ্ত অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বসহকারে এই কথাগুলো বলেছিলেন।

Nazrul Festival begins May 19

To mark the 109th birth anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam, the Nazrul Sangeet Shilpi Parishad will hold a three-day National Nazrul Sangeet Congress at the Central Public Library, beginning on May 19.

"The programme will feature music, recitation and dance," said Ferdousi Rahman at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city on Thursday.

রবিঠাকুরের শাহজাদপুরে - দীপংকর চন্দ

গাবতলী থেকে সাভার; কালিয়াকৈর থেকে এলেঙ্গা বাজার− আজ আর হারাতে যেন মানা নেই, মানা নেই হারিয়ে যেতে বহু দুর, গ্রীষ্ক্নের খরতাপ উপেক্ষা করে পৌঁছে যেতে উল্লাপাড়া, শাহজাদপুর।

Rabindra kacharibari at Shahjadpur needs repair

Rabindra Kachharibari at Shahzadpur in Sirajganj that preserves many of the famous works of nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore is now in a shambles due to lack of care and maintenance. Many works of Tagore inside the Kachharibari building was also exposed to damage and destruction due to indifference of the local administration for their proper upkeep.

Tagore’s birth anniversary today

The 147th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore will be observed across the country today with due respect to the versatile Bengali poet.

Rabindranath Tagore, also known as 'Kobi Guru,' was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Balda Garden inspired Tagore’s Camellia

Great poet Rabindranath Tagore's sojourn to Dhaka 's Balda garden inspired him to compose his famous romantic poem 'Camellia' in the late 1920's.

History has it that the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote his famous romantic poem 'Camellia' when he visited Dhaka was inspired by the beautiful camellia flowers in Balda Garden.