Bhashanagar magazine celebrated the 91st birth anniversary of poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay at the Bangla Academy Sabhaghar, Kolkata. The evening was touched by reverence and memory, where words, music, and voices came together in homage. Among the honoured guests were Swati Gangopadhyay, Sunil’s lifelong companion; veteran
Rain water cannot wash clean the world’s filth
Cannot scrub away the copper rust in the heart…
Chu Zi is a writer, poet, calligrapher and painter
Chu Zi, whose real name is Zhou Qiong, was born in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, China in the 1960s. He is a writer, poet, calligrapher and painter. So far, he has created 23
My hatred for him surpasses the length of the world’s mountains, and my rage against him is as vast as the roaring, frozen oceans. My fury at him is as massive as erupting volcanoes whose flames never die, and my anger at him as deep as the earth’s trembling core between the horns of a maddened bull. My loathing for him stretches
With steadfast tread I climbed triumph’s towering illusion,
Mistaking vain success for life’s sovereign culmination.
Dr. Sajid Hussain, a renowned poet from Rawalpindi, Punjab province of Pakistan shares his poetry on humanity and nature
Dr. Sajid Hussain, born on February 1, 1969, in Morgah, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, is
In 1964, in Paris, the global Egyptian star Omar Sharif was filming his famous movie Doctor Zhivago. He was living at the time with his British actor friend Sir Tom Courtenay in the same apartment. Sharif noticed Courtenay’s deep passion for the results of the English football team Hull City, which was then playing in the second
