Wali Mahmud. The name given by his family is Mohammad Waliur Rahman Mahmud. He was born in 1st August, 1972 in Dewan Villa, 1 Matiur Rahman Mahmud Road of Jaldhup Pathon village under Beanibazar Upazila of Sylhet district, Bangladesh.  Education—Bachelor of Arts, Chittagong University; Post Graduation, MC College; CELT, Tower Hamlets College, London; CC in English; CC in ICT (Intermediate), Opal Education, Hertfordshire, UK.  He dwells in the modern Bengali poetry.  Nature, rivers and woman are incarnated in his poetry. The abstract feelings of love are portrayed as intelligible figures in different ways.  

He is a researcher in Diasporas literature and also involved with various educational, social organizations. Served as Director of Bangladesh Liberation War Research Center; Senior Vice President of Freedom Fighter Youth Command- Sylhet District Branch; President, SMC (School Managing Committee 2016-17, 2018-19), Pathon-Abdullapur Girls High School; Founding President, Beanibazar Association of Dorset County, UK; Trustee, Beanibazar Welfare Trust UK etc.

Wali Mahmud was involved in the movement against the military dictator Ershad. That’s why the police administration and intelligence agencies raided his house in 1990 and looted the manuscripts of his two books and many anti-authoritarian, anti-communal and anti-racist poems. He was involved in various ways including building public opinion in Bangladesh and England to demand justice for those who were war criminals against humanity in the war of independence of Bangladesh. Since he was involved in different ways, he had to face various disasters including death threats. Due to this, his family was subjected to various threats in Bangladesh. He collected information on genocide and information on those involved in crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Bangladesh War of Independence. Relevant data as a collector is used in the research work of the Liberation War and used in Ranangan ’71 book.

His published books of poetry, research and edited Little Magazine are: Bhalobashar Poati (1999), Joiboti Shon (1999), Ekti Dirgoshasher Mritto, Death of a Sigh (2001), I am The Descendant, Ami Ek Uttorpurush (2002), Nirbashone, Nirbachito Druho (2004), 1237 Daag (2013).

Diaspora Research: The Literature of Fiction Writer Abdur Rauf Chowdhury, (Editor’s England, 2013).

Edited Little Magazine: Kabiyal (1992), Shikar (1994) and Lookon Little Magazine (2009-2014) published from England and Bangladesh. 

E-mail: walimahmud@yahoo.co.uk

Wali Mahmud

The story of the night of the great age

In the mix of legends in history, the journey of time is captured in Maya.

Characters from Arabian Nights float-

In the pages of world literature.

Like a reservoir of mysterious relationships – on the way to Earth.

Presentation of the night in recitation in the tradition of the ancestors

Inspired adolescence. Wait, listen-

This path has gone through the heart of the desert, forever.

This is the face and reality of the face, the north and the south.

Those who are returning home in the crowd of innumerable desires,

Like a letter sent to them.

If it were – if the long breath of the favorite flower could be read.

Looking at it like a still image.

Our neutral love is like the blue sky.

The oath of beauty does not fall on the eyelids.

The light described in the measure of genius is like the shadow fog.

The ‘Dewan Villa’ of the city is called by the vast Maya.