Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873) is widely regarded as the first modern Bangla poet. Well before Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976), Madhusudan is even reckoned as the first rebel poet in Bangla literature, although he is by no means a revolutionary like Nazrul.
Shuvro Sachin, Khulna Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 24 May 2021 10:41 AM BdST
Updated: 24 May 2021 10:41 AM BdST
Natural calamities have been devastating the lives of nearly two million people in the coastal areas of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat for one and a half decades. A brewing cyclone in the Bay of Bengal brings back old memories to the coastal population, as the dams scarred by previous storms are too weak to survive another tidal surge. );
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A deep depression over the Bay intensified into a cyclonic storm, the latest threat to the shanties that they call home along the dams in Koyra, Dacope and Paikgachha in Khulna, Shyamnagar and Ashashuni in Satkhira, and Sharankhola and Mongla in Bagerhat.