The Kazi Nazrul Islam and Abbasuddin Ahmed Research Centre (KNIAARC) of IUB organized a program titled "One Hundred Years of Nazrul's Bidrohi and Eliot's The Waste Land" on Monday.
Bangla Academy Literary Award winning author, translator and critic, Prof Dr Fakrul Alam, director of Dhaka University's Sheikh Mujib Research Institute for Peace and Liberty, attended the program as the chief guest, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.
National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam's granddaughter Khilkhil Kazi was the special guest.
Renowned singer, author and Abbasuddin Ahmed's granddaughter Dr Nashid Kamal, IUB trustee Towhid Samad, Vice Chancellor Tanweer Hasan, KNIAARC Advisor Prof Dr Niaz Zaman, and KNIAARC Director and Professor of English and Modern Languages at IUB Dr Ahsanuzzaman, also spoke at the event.
At the program, Dr Ashim Dutta and Sanjeeda Hossain from Dhaka University, Dr Kolpona Hena Rumi from Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, and Md Shamim Hossain from Jahangirnagar University presented research papers on Bidrohi and The Waste Land.
Tapos Sarkar, controller of Examinations, IUB, and Dr Carl Nicholas Bloom, assistant professor, Department of English and Modern Languages, IUB, recited from Bidrohi and The Waste Land respectively.