Kaiser Hamidul Haq is a Bangladeshi poet, translator, essayist, critic and academic. Kaiser Haq is one of the few Bangladeshis who excel in creative writings in English.
He is a professor of English at the University of Dhaka.
In the liberation war of Bangladesh, he fought against Pakistani Army "as a freshly commissioned subaltern in command of a company". Haq's poems, mostly written in free verse in standard English and rooted in Bangladeshi life and culture availed him international acknowledgement as "a writer worth noticing".
Grandpa Walt, allow me to share my thoughts
with you, if only because every time
I read “Passage to India” and come across
the phrase “passage to more than India”
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Were I a painter
I am sure
My signature theme would be
The title of this poem.
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