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MNA Feature Desk: It was 1972, a young and unknown writer came up with a book named ‘Nondito Noroke’ (In Blissful Hell) and many experts in literature and arts were taken away with the sheer genius of this writer; the writer was Humayun Ahmed. This was the beginning of the new star in the horizon of literature in Bangladesh. Among many notable writers of Bangladesh, Ahmed is different in many ways — created and developed a new generation of readers in Bangladesh during the ’80s and onwards until he left this world. Many say, Humayun Ahmed was a writer for ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Shahid Qadri, the leading contemporary Bengali poet, has died in New York at the age of 74. The body of reputed Bangladeshi poet is expected to arrive in Dhaka early Wednesday. The poet breathed his last in North Shore University Hospital at 7am (local time) on Sunday, his wife Neera Qadri confirmed news agency. He was hospitalized with high blood pressure and fever a week ago. For his poetry, he was awarded Bangla Academy Award in 1973. He also received the Ekushey Padak for his contribution to language and literature in 2011. Born in Dhaka ...