Mosaic of a Lost Era

Contents* Preface * Author's Note PART 1: REMINISCENCES * 1. Memories of Old Dhaka * 2. Down Memory Lane * 3. Postscript: Last Mail from Meudon * 4. Posthumous Letter to Waliullah * 5. My Friend Akhlaq: A Tribute * 6. She has Kept her Rendezvous with Death PART 2: ART AND CULTURE * 1. The Cultural Heritage of Bangladesh * 2. Quamrul Hassan and the Folk Tradition * 3. Hamidur Rahman: Painter of Inner Reality * 4. The Upside Down Portrait * 5. Jiras Art Gallerie Presents Anwar Jahan with his Twenty Sculptures at the Bangladesh College of Arts and Crafts * 6. Ustad Ayet Ali Khan and Some Thoughts on Music * 7. Land of Magic * 8. Traditional Jewellery and Dress of Bangladesh * 9. Tinsel Dreams of the Silver Screen * 10. Age cannot Wither nor Custom Stale * 11. Today’s Motion Pictures PART 3: LITERATURE * 1. The Conscience of the People: Shamsur Rahman * 2. The Poet of River and Man: Sanaul Huq * 3. Two Significant Poets * 4. Poetry and the Turkish Scene * 5. Poetry and the Japanese * 6. Poetry in Malaysia * 7. Poetry in India and Pakistan * 8. Speech Delivered as Ambassador of Bangladesh on Ghalib Day Organised by the Ghalib Academy * 9. One Man’s Agony * 10. Two Poems of Shamsur Rahman * 11. Legend is What I Speak About: Abu Zafar Obaidullah * 12. Once Upon a Time PART 4: MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND SPEECHES * 1. The Language Movement: The First Step towards Independent Bangladesh * 2. Buddhist Calendar * 3. Address on the Occasion of Laying the Foundation Stone of a Monument at Vojrojogini the Birthplace of Saint Atish Dipankar Srijnana * 4. The Nobel Peace Laureate: Sakharov * 5. Address as Information Minister at the Soviet Film Festival * 6. Cinema for Peace and Progress: Speech at a Round Table Conference at Tashkent on the Role of the Cinema in the Struggle for Peace, Social Progress and Freedom of People * 7. Speech as the Information Minister at the Centenary Celebrations of St. Gregory’s High School