Wali Mahmud. The name given by his family is Mohammad Waliur Rahman Mahmud. He was born on 1st August 1972 in Dewan Villa of Jaldhup Pathon village under Beanibazar Upazila of Sylhet district, Bangladesh.
He dwells in the modern Bengali poetry. Nature, rivers, and women are incarnated in his poetry. The abstract feelings of love are portrayed as intelligible figures in different ways. Hoping to open the perceptibility of poetry he makes himself a devotee of love and searches for the pilgrimage of it or as an inbound youth he touches the sky of love in different ways. Besides, we find boundless affliction of feelings in his poems. Frequently trying to go outside of the circle of writing traditional poems and publishing them in books makes us understand his poems deeply.
He was involved in various ways including the creation of public opinion in Bangladesh and England to demand the trial of war criminals against humanity in the great war of independence of Bangladesh. He collected information on genocide and information on those involved in crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Bangladesh War of Independence, such as the including members of the Razakars, the Peace Committee, Al Badr, and Al Shams. Relevant data as a collector is used in the research work of the Liberation War and the book of Ranangon 1971.
Wali Mahmud’s published books— 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) and Editor of Lookon Little Magazine UK & Bangladesh; Diaspora Research: Fiction Writer Abdur Rauf Chowdhury (Editor’s England, 2013).
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