Dhaka, Oct. 28 -- Bengal boasts having one of the most developed literary traditions in Asia. In its recorded history of over 1400 years, from the ancient time to the medieval age, poetry was one of the dominant means of expressing thoughts, emotions and imagination. Our poetic heritage blessed with the positive influence of religions contributed in a comfortable immersion with European thoughts and ideas during the British Raj. Prior the British rule, liberal and religiously tolerant Muslim Sultans patronized poets and scholars to foster their creativity which resulted in translation of Hindu religious classics like Ramayana and Mahabharat. In this phase, poets like Al Awal, Kazi Dawlat enriched Bengali literature with pro-human thoughts...