Shamsur Rahman is one of the leading poets of Bangladesh and modern Bengali literature. His superiority and popularity were established in two Bengalis in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a citizen poet. His superiority and popularity were established in two Bengalis in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a citizen poet. He is famous as the leading man of modern Bengali poetry after the rare Panchakabi of the thirties of the twentieth century.
Poet Shamsur Rahman's father's house is in Paratali village in Raipura of Narsingdi district. He was born on 23 October 1929 at the house of Mahuttuli Nana in Dhaka. Shamsur Rahman's father's name is Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury and mother's name is Amena Begum. He was the fourth of 13 siblings.
He completed his matriculation in 1945 from Pogoj School in Old Dhaka. After passing IA from Dhaka Intermediate College in 1947, he was admitted to Dhaka University in English and also took regular classes there for three years. In the end, he was not given the main test. Later, he passed BA in the pass course and got second place in the MA (Preliminary) examination in English literature, but Shamsur Rahman did not participate in the final examination.
Poet Shamsur Rahman was able to realize that this age is not a natural poet, but a natural poet. Jibanananda got the search for the colors and forms of the sensual nature from the simple nature, Sudhindranath got the Godless world, Buddhadev Bose got the love and darkness, Shamsur Rahman got the urban life. He captured the image of the city in his fighting spirit and became a 'citizen poet' in the true sense. He is also aware as a citizen of the hostile world. His poems echo the cries of contemporary barbarism and violence. Today 16th August is the day of death of this great poet. On this day in 2006, the poet Shamsur Rahman floated in the sea of mourning.
Poet Shamsur Rahman's acquaintance with modern poetry and international-modern consciousness emerged in 1949. Not only in poetry but also in other fields of literature, his writings have the impression of multidimensionality.
He has published more than a hundred books, including six books of poetry, four novels, numerous essays and rhymes. Not only sound knowledge but his alertness and dedication too are most required. He was the first person in Bangladesh to be the victim of a militant-terrorist attack on his own house in Kalyanpur, Dhaka. Later, they were saved by the brave resistance of both of them. Because he was always anti-militant by his writing. This poet, one of the leading figures in Bengali literature, passed away on August 16, 2006 at the age of 7, leaving all the devotees in a sea of mourning in this mourning month of the nation.
His first published poem was published in the weekly Sonar Bangla in 1949. Shamsur Rahman has taken various pronouns while writing editorials and sub-editorials in various newspapers. Among them were Sindbad, Chakshushman, Lipikar, Nepathye, Janantike, Mainak.
Shamsur Rahman wrote a poem titled 'Elephant's trunk' in 1958 in Samakal (Patrika) edited by Sikandar Abu Jafar mocking the dictator Ayub Khan. When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the undisputed leader of Bangladesh, was in prison, he wrote an extraordinary poem 'Telemecas' (in 1966 or 1967) addressed to him. When the then Information Minister of Pakistan banned the broadcasting of Rabindra Sangeet on Radio Pakistan on June 22, 1967, Shamsur Rahman was working as a professional in the then government controlled newspaper Dainik Pakistan Not caring about the uncertainty, Rabindra signed the statement in favor of Sangeet so that Hasan Hafizur Rahman, Ahmed Humayun, Fazal Shahabuddin also signed.
In 1967, Ayub Khan proposed the introduction of a common Roman alphabet for all languages in Pakistan, in which 41 poets, journalists, writers, intellectuals, teachers and cultural activists protested in August. The poet became angry and wrote a touching poem 'Alphabet, my sad alphabet'.
On January 20, 1969, Shamsur Rahman was shocked to see the flag made of Shahid Asad's bloody shirt and wrote the poem 'Asad's shirt'. On November 26, 1970, in the midst of the misery and death of millions of people in the southern region of the cyclone, the poet wrote a poem called 'Let's be a fisherman even today'. During the war of liberation in 1971, he moved with his family to Paratali village in Narsingdi. In early April, he wrote the war-torn and painstaking poems 'Swadhinata Tumi' and 'O Swadhinata to get you'.
Shamsur Rahman resigned as the editor-in-chief of Dainik Bangla in 1987 in protest of Ershad's dictatorship. For the next four years from 1967, he wrote "Poems on Chain" in the first year, "Poems Against Autocracy" in the second year, "Poems Against Communalism" in the third year and "Poems Against Terrorism".After the fall of Ershad in 1991, he wrote 'Poems for Democracy'. Non-communal consciousness and immense compassion towards the people was flowing in his consciousness.
Poet Shamsur Rahman breathed his last on the evening of 18 August 2006 while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka. According to his wish, at Banani cemetery in Dhaka, He was buried in his mother's grave. Deep homage to the memory of this gifted poet on the day of his death.
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