Google Doodle celebrates poet Shamsur Rahman's birthday

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage celebrating the life of Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist Shamsur Rahman on the occasion of his 89th birth anniversary, reports UNB.

Shamsur Rahman (23 October 1929 - 17 August 2006) who emerged in the latter half of the 20th century wrote more than sixty books of poetry and is considered as one of the key figures in Bengali literature.

Shamsur Rahman was born in his grandfather's house No. 46 in Mahut-Tuli, Dhaka. His paternal home is situated on the bank of the river Meghna, a village named Pahartoli, near the Raipura Police Station in Narsingdi district.

While studying English literature at the University of Dhaka, he joined a student group known as Progressive Writers and Artists Association, reading his verse at Madhu's Canteen and staunchly supporting the movement to retain Bengali as the official language of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).