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Dr Rashid Askari stresses comprehensive online book fair amid pandemic
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Professor Dr Rashid Askari (bottom right)
Professor Dr. Rashid Askari, former Vice Chancellor of Islamic University in Kushtia,has underscored the need for a comprehensive and technologically equipped “online book fair” amid the pandemic avoiding any physical engagement.
He expressed the view while addressing a dialogue on the sideline of the 1st Virtual Book Fair UK.
The UK Virtual Book Fair organised a panel discussion titled ‘Book Fair in the Time of Pandemic’ on Saturday.
Experts from UK, Bangladesh, India, Poland, France and Israel took part in the discussion.
Sankha Ghosh: A Poet and Face Beyond Advertisements
The death of the litterateur ends the generation of post-Independence Bengali poets.
Sankha Ghosh (1932-2021) . Photo: Twitter
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Bengali poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay recalled collecting poems of his contemporary Sankha Ghosh for the inaugural edition of the legendary little magazine
Krittibas in 1953. âThe most discussed young poet in those days was Sankha Ghosh,â wrote Gangopadhyay in his autobiographyÂ
Ardhek Jibon (
Half a Life, Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, 2002):
“Narayan Gangopadhyay [novelist] had read his [Ghoshâs] poetry to his students in the Bengali class at City College. We were also enamoured after reading his poetry in Parichay. We must have his poems. And we were delighted to get our hand on an entire notebook of Shankha Ghoshâs poetry. His handwriting was like pearls, and each poem shone like a diamond. Perhaps, it was in this notebook that he was putting
Ghosh was born on February 6, 1932, at Chandpur in present-day Bangladesh.
He was in home isolation on the advice of doctors, according to Health Department sources.
Kolkata: Noted Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh died on Wednesday morning while he was in isolation at his residence after testing positive for COVID-19, his family said. Ghosh, 89, was found to be COVID-positive on April 14.
He was in home isolation on the advice of doctors, according to Health Department sources.
Shankha Ghosh, who suffered from several comorbidities, was hospitalised a few months ago due to the deterioration of his health condition.
Considered to be having authority on Rabindranath Tagore, Ghosh is known for Adim Lata - Gulmomay and Murkha Baro Samajik Nay , among other books.