One late December night in 1921, Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote what would be his most iconoclastic poem, the poem that would give rise to his soubriquet, “Bidrohi Kabi,” the Rebel Poet. Inspired by a complex of emotions, Nazrul’s ideas were flowing too fast for his pen to keep pace.
Educators in these columns have been asking for recovery and remedial actions to overcome the pandemic-induced learning losses that threaten a generational learning disaster.
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A decade and a half ago, writer, poet, linguist, and a professor of the Bengali Department of Dhaka University, Humayun Azad, was brutally attacked by extremist militants on February 27, 2004, outside the Amar Ekushey Book Fair.