Olo Shoi,toder ache moner kotha,amar ache koi

Let me tell my non Bengali readers that this line is from Rabindranath Thakur. This means “all my friends have many things to say from their mind but I am not allowed to express that.” I am one of the fools still existing in Bengal who are still hypnotized by the magnanimity of the great man’s creations. You will be probably surprised why I am saying that. I am 46 years old. I do not remember first six years of my life. So I can remember roughly 40 years. I can proudly say I do not remember a single year when I have not celebrated & remembered the great who created modern Bengali society on 25she Boishakh. Unfortunately the experience which I had yesterday was also never thought of to be happened in my life. Function at Rabindra Shadan had to be stopped due to unavailability of performers. Rabindra Shadan area experienced only few small stalls of few handicrafts & usual flow of young lovers. This is only the net result of division “amra” & Ora (We & They) among so called intellectuals in Bengal today. It gives me more pain as this should have been a year long gala celebration.I hope authorities got performers in the evening or late evening, since I had to leave for children’s performance at Nehru Children’s Museum.

Indeed a real “Change” coming up.I was thinking by the time these Children goes matured Ora & Amra will stop them as well.

Every culture of  the particular region is mostly influenced by history.We have 29 states in India today. Among them only 3 states experienced partition before independence by British rulers. Bengal Punjab & of course Kashmir.Bengal & Punjab had to be divide as those were producing maximum number of armed revolutionaries which were keeping British on their toes. They were scared, scared not because of of Law and order but the educational standard of the youth in struggle coming through. All were ideologically so strong that they can not be distracted by any means.Both the states were producing series of intellectuals who were influencing those youth by their writng, Above all among all intellectuals we had Rabindranath Tagore. Kazi Nazrul once wrote “Mathar opore royechen Robi”(We have Rabindranath like sun above our head).So they had to employ divide & rule. Since both “Ora & Amra “ are not being able to give any intellectual guidance to the youth they are carrying they want to wipe off the basic pillar of our culture..Devoid of intellectual base into any change results division in society and ultimately brings destruction.

I was stunned by some excellent performance by young kids. Blind boy Shubhrojit came across with real professional singing and Kids under Moloy Poddar presented recitation with a belief that we need an organization like Children’s Museum to protect these talents. Of course My daughter Sarupya also performed dance there. I hope she will have no influence of Ora & Amra like all other Children participated in function. But there also I experienced one change has taken place.Children performed dance on a remix song of “Uriye Dhwaja”.That performance took place in front of stalwarts of Tagore Foundation. I know Biswabharati has no right now. Anybody can introduce new track of music into it. Law can not catch you. My only request is that you have 300 days to make that experiment. Let 65 days to play Tagore’s original tune. When you hear those in 65 days you will understand that probably you are not clever enough to change those.

He Utala,shono kotha shono

Duar ki khola ache kono?

E Bnaka pother sheshe  Math jetha meghe Meshe

Boshe keho ache ki ekhono?- Jhorer Dine

(Is any body sitting on the other side of difficult path & Time)