Ocean of Melancholy The Tragedy that was Karbala

Mir Mosharraf Hossain was born in 1847 to the zamindar of Padamdi, Mir Muazzam-Hossain. A bright boy from his early childhood, Mir started his education at home under a good maulvi. He was good at languages since his schooldays. He was deeply interested in Arabic, Persian, and Bengali literature and spent hours reading books in these scripts. Mir contributed his writings to various journals, mainly in Sangbad Hitokar and Gram Barta Prakashika, and edited the magazines Azizannehar (1874) and Hitokori (1890). Mir has authored thirty-five books of which Bishad Sindhu (1885-1891) is applauded as his best. Alo Shome is a freelance writer and poet. Her selected and translated collection of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's essays Many Threads of Hinduism and her translation of Bankim's study of Sri Krishna's personality Krishna Charitra have been published by HarperCollins (2015) and Pustak Mahal (2008) respectively. Her poems (published in Poetry Chain) were also critically appreciated in The Hindu in 2002.