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29 June 2015, Monday

The 142nd death anniversary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, one of the greatest poets in Bangla literature today. Many poets, litterateur and critics term him father of Bangla sonnet and also a pioneer of modern Bangla drama. Michael Madhusudan Dutt was a popular 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in Sagordari, on the bank of Kopotaksho River, a village in Keshobpur upozila, Jessore District, East Bengal (now in Bangladesh) on January 25, 1824. His father was Rajnarayan Dutt, an Detail >>

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