From ‘That is nothing’

এইবার হাত দাও, টের পাচ্ছো আমার অস্তিত্ব ? পাচ্ছো না ? একটু দাঁড়াও আমি তৈরী হয়ে নিই । এইবার হাত দাও, টের পাচ্ছো আমার অস্তিত্ব ? পাচ্ছো না ? তোমার জন্মান্ধ চোখে শুধু ভুল অন্ধকার । ওটা নয়, ওটা চুল । এই হলো আমার আঙ্গুল, এইবার স্পর্শ করো,–না, না, না, -ওটা নয়, ওটা কন্ঠনালী, গরলবিশ্বাসী […]

Shamim Azad

Shamim Azad is a British bilingual poet, storyteller and writer of Bangladeshi origin. Shamim Azad was born in Mymensingh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (the town where her father worked), her hometown was Sylhet. She passed her Metric from Jamalpur Girls High School in 1967 and passed her Intermediate from Tangail Kumudini College in 1969. She enrolled in […]

Nirmalendu Goon

Nirmalendu Goon (born 1945) is one of the most popular Bangladeshi poets known for his accessible verse. He was born in Kashbon in Barhatta in Netrokona, undivided India, present-day Bangladesh. His first book of poetry was published in 1970. Since then he has published forty-five collections of poetry and twenty collections of prose. Part of […]