➤ Dear Dr. Biplab Majumdar,                                                                                     July 28, 2003
Thank you for sending me your poem book ''Mera Bharat Mahan''. I liked the poems particularly your poem ''Mera Bharat Mahan'' as in page 14. My greetings and best wishes to you.

Yours Sincerely,

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam,

PRESIDENT OF INDIA

➤ An amazingly significant impressive and brilliant book of poetry "Virtues & Vices" written by Biplab Majumdar is under review .......... The reader will find that it is a superb poetry book, singing of ethics and morals in human life, and being extremely instructive for present day humankind.

Dr. Kazuyosi Ikeda,

Professor Emeritus, Osaka University,

Nobel-nominated Poet, JAPAN

➤ Dr. Majumdar is an exceptionally gifted man, a poet and translator, who as I do, works untiredly for international cooperation and peace .......................... I wish to vouch for his integrity and his admirable and rare commitment to international understanding.

Dr. Gustawa Stendig Lindberg,

Chairperson - Miriam Felicia

Lindberg Memorial Foundation, ISRAEL

➤ Your poems are very simple but very suggestive. They are pregnant with high philosophic insight like the experienced, old and wise men's sayings.

Prof. Seiji Hino,

JAPAN

➤ It is a modern Upanishad. (About VIRTUES & VICES)

M. Ramalingam,

Ed. : Shine, INDIA

➤ The timeless quality that makes the best of Biplab Majumdar's work is due in part to careful attention to form and sound .............. Majumdar's highly crafted poetic technique makes this an accomplished and valuable contribution to poetry.

Patricia Prime,

Poet-critic, NEW ZEALAND

➤ ........... an inspired, thought-provoking collection of spiritual verses written by an eminent Indian poet and editor, who has won such acclaim as an International writer, and whose extensive works have already been translated into quite a number of languages ............. Biplab is a poet at the very heart of the matter. At no time does he resort to any form of obscurity in his verses; and it should ever be borne in mind that the very essence of genius is to be bound in Simplicity ............... This is a collection that may be opened at any page, for truly this work, in its entirety, is imbued with an underlying tenderness of spirit, which is the very mainspring of its universal appeal .................. It's a veritable celebration of life itself.

Bernard M Jackson

Noted poet-critic of world repute, ENGLAND

➤ The collection "Virtues & Vices" is a pride collection by virtue of its thoughtful messages and well churned meanings. Biplab Majumdar has shown a path in which the titles traverse through each line of all the poems .................. His ability to give the precious life its place on a high pedestal proves that he is akin to values in life. It is also hoped that many more works of greater depths would be seeing the light of the day by him.

M. S. Venkata Ramaiah

Ed. : Bizz Buzz, INDIA

➤ ......... you are a rare genius, who really deserves all worldly exposure and encouragement to further touch the pinnacles of literary glory in the contemporary field of world poetry.

Prof. Syed Ameeruddin, Founder-President,

International Poets Academy, Chennai, INDIA

➤ For many years, I have been a great admirer of the prodigious works of the Indian poet Biplab Majumdar, a remarkable poet of considerable merit. His highly crafted poetic technique makes this literary achievement as a valuable contribution to Indian English poetry. His rare contribution to international understanding is unforgettable.

Prof. Dr. Mahashweta Chaturvedi,

Editor : MANDAKINI,

a renowned poet, critic, a great scholar,

a research guide to Ph.D. Students, U.P.

➤ Thus it is, undeniably admitted fact that the poetry of Biplab Majumdar is a bouquet of multicoloured roses and Jasmines filled with aroma of spirituality. His poems are all drenched in the rain of spiritual ecstacy and transendental joys which make him a poet of eternity and par excellence.

Shaleen Kumar Singh,

M.Litt., Research Scholar in English,

Budaun, U.P.

➤ The poet Biplab Majumdar's haiku are superlatively fascinating, having surpassingly profound significance. His haiku glitter gorgeously like heavenly stars and are exceedingly lucid like genuine pearls in the sea's bottom. Such English haiku are highly evaluated as true haiku by Japanese people.

Prof. Dr. Kazuyosi Ikeda,

D.SC., D.LITT., D.Environ

Professor Emeritus of Osaka University,

Japan, a world famous Nobel nominated poet.

➤ Poet Biplab Majumdar is not a new name in Indian English poetry. He is one of the leading Indo-English poets widely published, translated and awarded ......... the present collection 'Golden Horizon' surely has placed him as one of the avant-garde Indian poets writing haiku-poems in English.

Purnima Ray,

a reputed poet-critic,

teaches in Burdwan University, W.B.

➤ ..... in the truest sense each Haiku within this collection is not an end in itself, but each sparks a new beginning ..... It is indeed impressive how this writer has been able to bring such grace of movement, colour, and introspection to so many of his poems. Biplab has written his own preface, providing an illuminative and instructive forward to the book.

Bernard M. Jackson,

Poet-critic, ENGLAND

➤ ...... but without doubt, I can say that all the haikus of this collection are full of worldly wisdom and knowledge. The haikus are on the subjects of perceptual truth and philosophy. These haikus are amazingly beautiful, according to their spirit.

Antaryami Sahu,

Lecturer in M. G. Degreee College, ODISHA

➤ Biplab shines like a poetic star in the Asian poetic sky. Indeed he is a valuable poetic voice who has written excellent poetry for the promotion of global love, peace, brotherhood and human values. His poems are glittering, astonishing, profoundly remarkable and unforgettable. He is master of facts. I am impressed by his wonderful sense of fact and universal appeal. Biplab is aware of the dreams, aspirations and sorrows of our times. He is a poet with higher purposes of life.

Prof. Suresh Chandra Dwivedi,

Noted poet and scholar, editor - TITIKSHA

Head, Dept. of English, University of Allahabad

➤ Biplab Majumdar is a great poet of the 21st century whose poetic garden is perfuming the creative milieu across the globe. He is serving the humanity through his poetry in the tradition of bards. His literary lamp will remove the darkness of hate, greed and Jealously in the years to come. The cultural heraldry of Aurobindo, burning issues of Nissim Ezekiel, Emotional outburst of Kamala Das, pictorial painting of Jayanta Mahapatra, romantic flavour of Chambial, artistic approach of Syed Ameeruddin, and simplicity of D. V. Sahani, flourish from alpha and omega of his verses that make him a poet of repute in English poetry.

Dr. Arvind Kumar Choudhary,

A great poet, editor - KOHINOOR and AYUSH,

Head, Dept. of English, Rangachahi College, Majuli, ASSAM