Bangla Desh – A Voice of a New Nation

Bangla Desh – A Voice of a New Nation was an anthology of poems published in 1971, when the people of the-then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, was fighting the war of independence against the occupation army of West Pakistan. It was a collection of seventy poems by fifty poets, all translated from Bengali into English by Pritish Nandy. It was stated in the credit page that 'The translator's royalty from the sale of this book will be donated to the Bangla Desh Assistance Fund'. Notably Bangladesh emerged as an independent state on 16 December 1971.

The book was published by Dialogue Publications, Calcutta. The cover of the anthology was designed by Dhunji and Anil Sahafor. A photograph taken by Shambhu Saha was used. The price of the book was fixed Taka Fifty or US dollar 3. The printer's line noted as follows : "Published by Sajeda Asad for Dilogue [sic] Publications from 5 Pearl Road, Calcutta 17, India and printed by her at Mudranika, 29/3 Nirmal Chunder Street, Calcutta, Cover printed at Cameo (Pvt) Ltd." It may be noted that 'Bangladesh' (one word) was written as 'Bangla Desh' (two words).