গল্পসমগ্র

by Shahidullah Kaiser

ডঃ শহীদুল্লা কায়সার এর লিখিত ছোট গল্পের সম্ভার।
এই গল্পসমগ্রে যোগ করা হয়েছে -

- অনমিতা
- অনুগল্প
- আষাঢ়ে গল্প
- একই ছবির দুই পিঠ
- নেতা
- অপমৃত্যু
- যক্ষপুরী
- রুপান্তর
- মৃত্যু-এক
- মৃত্যু-দুই
- নিলুফার বেগম ও একখানি চিঠি
- মুন্না
- তিমির বলয়
- এমনি করেই গড়ে উঠবে
- অনিরুদ্ধা
- বহুরূপী
- মহম্মদ দিনের গল্প
- জোবেদ আলির গল্প
- গেরাম আলির গল্প
- পল্টু
- পরিতৃপ্ত

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

231 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2012

About the author

Shahidullah Kaiser (Bengali: শহীদুল্লাহ কায়সার) was born Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah. He is the brother of another famous Bengali author Zahir Raihan. Kaiser studied at Presidency College, Kolkata and obtained a Bachelors degree in economics with honours. Later, he enrolled in Masters of Arts at Calcutta University but did not finish getting the degree.

Kaiser was active in politics and cultural movements from his student days. Following the formation of Pakistan in 1947, he became a member of the provincial Communist Party of East Pakistan. He started working as a journalist in 1949 with the Ittefaq in Dhaka. In 1952, he participated actively in the Language Movement. For his political role in the movement for protection of Bengali language, Kaiser was arrested on 3 June 1952. He was later jailed for three and a half years. Right after his release in 1955, he was again arrested and jailed on a political crackdown on activists. A few years later he was released. In 1958, Kaiser joined as an associate editor of the Daily Sangbad - a Bengali language daily - where he worked for the rest of his life. When the Military coup of 1958 put Ayub Khan in power, and martial law was proclaimed, Kaiser was arrested again on 14 October 1958 and remained in jail for four years till his release in September 1962.

At the end the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, the Pakistan Army and its local collaborators initiated a plan for killing the leading Bengali intellectuals. As a part of it, Kaiser was rounded up on 14 December 1971. He never returned, nor was his body found. It is assumed that he was executed along with other intellectuals. His brother Zahir Raihan also disappeared while searching for Kaiser.