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This volume brings together for the first time the best examples of English writing by Najmuddin Hashim (1925-1999) – a journalist, a diplomat, and a “man of letters”. The eclectic collection includes reminiscences about friends such as the author Syed Waliullah, economist and political activist Akhlaqur Rahman, and the first female diplomat of Bangladesh Hosnara Karim; tales of growing up in Old Dhaka during the 1930s; reflections on Bangladeshi and foreign literature art, and music including praise of folk art forms. English translations of poems by Shamsur Rahman and Abu Zafar Obaidullah. and even pieces on Bangladesh’s historical connections with Buddhism and the 1989 death of Russian Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Dmitreyevich Sakharov. He witnessed the Quit India Movement, the Bhasha Andolon (Language Movement), our war of independence, and the decay of the Soviet Union. among other things. These diverse essays are united by the author’s clarity and warmth of expression, and his obvious affection for his subjects. This collection is a marvelous example of the best of English writing from Bangladesh.
Kaiser Haq
Kaiser Haq is a poet, essayist and translator who was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and educated at Don’s Kindergarten, St. Gregory’s High School, Faujdarhat Cadet College, Dhaka Govt. College, and the universities of Dhaka and Warwick, where he took a Ph.D. in English literature as a Commonwealth Scholar. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar and Vilas Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and held a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was Café Poet at the Poetry Café of the Poetry Society, London, for a summer. He is a veteran of the Bangladesh Independence War of 1971. He taught at Dhaka University from 1975 to 2016. Currently, he is a professor of
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