Ruddro Muhammad Shahidullah is one of the few poets of twentieth century Bangladesh who managed to make Bengali poetry popular among the readers. Though noted for his romantic and revolutionary poetry, he also penned short story, play and songs. Ruddro's poetry portrays the frustration resulted from the shattered dreams and aspirations of Bengali nation which achieved independence through a blood shedding war with the cost of millions of lives in 1971. Born in 1956, Ruddro Muhammad Shahidullah witnessed the struggle of the nation for independence as an adolescent and subsequently experienced the desultory and despairing milieu of independent
Bangladesh as well. Ruddro is one of the rarest poets of Bangladesh who had much more to give. He died young at the age of only 34! His voice stands unique and conspicuous in the tradition of Bengali poetry.
This book contains the representative poems of Ruddro Muhammad Shahidullah in admirable translation by Nadira Bhabna.
