Bangladesh
মোর ভাবনারে কী হাওয়ায় মাতালো,
দোলে মন দোলে অকারণ হরষে ।
হৃদয়গগনে সজল ঘন নবীন মেঘে
রসের ধারা বরষে ।।
তাহারে দেখি না যে দেখি না,
শুধু মনে মনে ক্ষণে ক্ষণে ওই শোনা যায়
বাজে অলখিত তারি চরণে
রুনুরুনু রুনুরুনু নূপুরধ্বনি ।।
গোপন স্বপনে ছাইল
অপরশ আঁচলের নব নীলিমা ।
উড়ে যায় বাদলের এই বাতাসে
তার ছায়াময় এলো কেশ আকাশে ।
সে যে মন মোর দিল আকুলি
জল-ভেজা কেতকীর দূর সুবাসে ।।
Translation
My thoughts gambol around
Intoxicated by which breeze
Sways my heart, sways for no reason
To a delightful thrill
My heart-sky is awash
With emotions so sweet
Dark dense clouds brimming
With fresh new drops of rain
I sight her not, even a glimpse
It is only in my mind I hear
There it sounds ever so often
Tinkling of anklet bells
That remain yet unseen
My secret dreams are enfolded
By an elusive gossamer
Tinged with a bluishness so new
Her loose tresses flutter
In breezy cloudiness
Casting shadows on earth
And pervading the skies
She has enthralled my heart
Stoking it to fervence
With the scent of rain-drenched flowers*
Wafting in from afar
Rabindranath Tagore
Mor Bhabonare Ki Haway | Sahana Bajpaie & Saptarshi Mukherjee | Movie: Hawa Bodol
You are “deeply disturbed” because people are demanding capital punishment for the murderers. Shahbag protest to you is just a boring Awami farce. It’s been way too long, 42 years, there’s nothing to gain by punishing the traitors.
This is just one of few thousand personal stories of 1971. Go ahead, listen to his story and think of your own family. Then tell me how Bengalis are bloodthirsty foolish people.
Lol shame on you for even considering yourself Bangladeshi.
Bangladesh - Enrique López-Tapia de Inés
Md. Zillur Rahman, the 19th President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh passed away on March 20, 2013
b&w of a Bangladeshi woman and her grandson
Almost everything I put up, there is always one skeptic who twists it and spews out stuff about current government, corruption, sustainability etc. Yeah, we get it. Bangladesh needs a lot of fixing. This however is about 40 years old crimes that remain unpunished. This is about Justice. It’s not fair that the same men who fought against Bangladesh’s creation and are expressly responsible for the death of hundreds and the rape of hundreds of others still are allowed to participate in politics, while those who fought for the people are reduced to begging on the streets.
Question your identity once. If you are so worried about Bangladesh and believe that you are a Bengali do you not agree that your fellow Bengalis who suffered at the hands of the rajakaars deserve justice? Would it have changed your mind knowing that your aunt was forced into a concentration camp by these same rajakaars and raped by as many as 50 different men while they put boiling hot water, boiling eggs inside her private parts until she died in agonizig pain? Would it have changed your mind if your own father was one of the Martyr Intellectuals taken away by these rajakaars on December 14, 1971 never to be seen again? Would it have changed your mind if your 10 months old little brother was thrown against the wall and killed by these same rajakaars? Or would it have changed your mind knowing your Grandmother died because one of these Rajakaar shoved a bayonet in to her private parts? No, not a single one of these are made up. These are real accounts of real people.
What is so not fair about demanding death penalty? Decapitating a journalist, gang-raping a 12 year old girl and killing 344 other people are not reason enough for Quader Mollah to be hanged?
If you are so worried about the current state of government and corruption, I suggest you take yourself and your fellow groups of skeptics to “Paltan” or “Shapla Chottor” or some other area in Dhaka and start another demonstration. Once our demand at the Shahbag Protest is fulfilled we will surely join you in making a corruption free, sustainable and democratic Bangladesh.
Parts taken from: Apshora
Chittagong Shipbreaking Yards in Bangladesh
Sayeedi has been granted punishment by death penalty
