Banu Mushtaq鈥檚 polyglot India
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Salah voted Football Writers' Player of the Year
Mohamed Salah won the Football Writers' Association Player of the Year award for the third time on Friday after inspiring Liverpool's march to a record-equalling 20th English title.
Afsana Begum brings two new literary works
Fiction writer Afsana Begum has brought two new literary works at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
Showkat Ali鈥檚 birth anniv today
Today is the 89th anniversary of birth of eminent novelist, short story writer Showkat Ali...
Akhtaruzzaman Elias鈥檚 birth anniv today
Today is the 82nd anniversary of birth of eminent novelist, short story writer Akhtaruzzaman Elias, who is often considered as one of the finest writers in modern Bangla literature...
Fiction writer Faizul Islam passes away
Fiction writer and essayist Faizul Islam passed away while undergoing treatment at Labaid Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday. He was 61.
Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir鈥檚 birth anniv today
Today is 89th anniversary of birth of educationist and writer Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir...
Manik Bandopadhyay鈥檚 death anniv today
Today is the 68th anniversary of death of novelist, short story writer Manik Bandopadhyay, who is often considered as one of the finest writers in modern Bangla literature...
Hasan Azizul Haque鈥檚 death anniv today
Today is the third anniversary of the death of Independence Award-winning fiction writer Hasan Azizul Haque...
Humayun Ahmed鈥檚 birth anniv observed
The 76th anniversary of the birth of fiction writer, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed was observed on Wednesday...
Journalist Obaidul Huq death anniv today
Today is the 17th anniversary of the death of writer and journalist Obaidul Huq, said a press release...
Writer Farhad Khan鈥檚 death anniv today
Today is the third anniversary of the death of writer and former director of Bangla Academy Farhad Khan...
Bibhutibhushan鈥檚 birth anniv today
Today is the 130th anniversary of the birth of one of the acclaimed Bengali fiction writers Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay...
Dilara Hashem鈥檚 birth anniv today
Today is the 88th anniversary of the birth of fiction writer and journalist Dilara Hashem...
Zahir Raihan birth anniv today
Today is the 89th anniversary of the birth of eminent filmmaker, fiction writer, Language Movement hero and freedom fighter Zahir Raihan...
Mastering one鈥檚 tongue
A FEW days back, I finished reading a book, Manuscript Found in Accra, a novel in literary genre by Brazilian writer Pualo Coelho. It is a wonderful piece in which a Copt, the central character, a narrator, advises a people under imminent threat of seizure of their city by some powerful enemy...
Oscar-winning Hollywood writer Robert Towne dies
Robert Towne, the Hollywood writer whose 鈥楥hinatown鈥� script is often described as the greatest screenplay ever written, died at 89....
Tough decisions pave way for better times: Novera Hossain
Fiction writer Novera Hossain thinks that tough decisions pave the way for better times...
Role of background musicians crucial: Sandhi
Singer, songwriter and music composer Khayam Sanu Sandhi thinks that the role of background musicians in productions is so crucial that if their work is not executed...
鈥楰airos鈥� wins International Booker Prize
German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann were named winners of the International Booker Prize for the novel 鈥楰airos鈥� on Tuesday...
Writers consciously, unconsciously explore politics: Faizul Islam
Fiction writer and essayist Faizul Islam has said that writers consciously or unconsciously explore politics in their works.
Misrepresenting history can backfire: Sabiha Huq
Fiction writer and essayist Sabiha Huq has said that misrepresenting history and hiding it from future generations can backfire, and if a generation is kept in the dark about complete history, it will harm everyone in the long run.