The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Cultural organisation Kranti remembered poet Mahbub Ul Alam at a function at the Liberation War Museum in the city on Friday to celebrate the 82nd birth anniversary of the late poet.

Kranti Shilpigoshti also organised recitation and musical session in the function. The organisation also honoured four personnel with Poet Mahbub-Ul Alam Chowdhury Memorial Award and launched a book titled 'Tumi Robe Nirobe.'

The recipients were - Asaduzzaman Noor, Kabori Sarwar, Fahmida Khatun and Bhaswar Bandhopadhya. Prof Anisuzzaman, Prof Rafiqul Islam, Abul Momen and Gholam Quddus, among others, discussed the life and works of poet Mahbub Ul Alam. Prof Kabir Chowdhury chaired the function, while President of Kranti Mahbubul Haider Mohan moderated the programme.

In the discussion, speakers recalled the memories of poet Mahbub Ul Alam Chowdhury and his contribution to the Language Movement in 1952.

They also said his poems had been inspiring for them during different crises period of the country. His poems still inspire people to build a tolerant and secular society for which the nation fought in 1971, said the speakers.