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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Shamsur Rahaman no more..

Shamsur Rahman no more..........
Rafiq Hasan, Friday, August, 18, 2006
The Daily Star.

"I'll soon be gone, quite alone/And quietly, taking none of you along/On this aimless journey. Useless/To insist, I must leave you all behind. No, I'll take nothing at all/On this solitary journey...", wrote Shamsur Rahman in his poem "Before the Journey".

Shamsur Rahman has gone leaving the whole nation in a deep shock. The eminent poet breathed his last at 6:30pm at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMUH) yesterday. Dr Iqbal Ahmed Chowdhury, assistant professor of BSMMUH, formally declared the country's top poet dead at about 6:45pm. The poet died as his blood pressure fell to the lowest level, he told newsmen at the hospital. More......

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