WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/27188

Dear Tapon Bagchi:
I read your article on Mollah Mazhar. Well, I disagree with you right at the
beginning. He did not write any good poetry at all. All he did was tried to
stimulate peoples consciousness in a wrong way. His intention is questionable.
Probably, he does not know what he says. Even if he knows it, he does it for
setting a complete chaos in the society and facilitating fundamentalism into
power. This Mollah gets money from NGO (non-government organization) through
foreign aids and enjoys all kinds of western luxuries, but votes against buying
tractors, as you wrote, for poor agriculturalists and push for cow-pull ploughs
for them. It's nuisance.

I posted your letter, about poetry, on the same website
(members.aol.com/shabdaweb) where I posted Abid Anwer's letters a year ago,
though I disagree with you in many ways. I believe, literature is a very
interesting subject where one cannot be impartial. No emotion is allowed here.
The names you mentioned of the Seventies would not be able to stay in form for
any longer than a decade or so, except Rudro. Can you give me the names of five
poets of the 1870s? Probably not. I will not be able to do that too. But you and
I will easily remember Modhusudhan Datta and Rabindranath Tagore out of hundreds
of poets and activists. That is because Datta and Tagore made some significant
changes in literature. So did the poets (and writers) of the thirties, the
fifties, and the nineties. I believe, we got to read more and try to see the
differences.

Thank you for shearing your poetic feelings with me.

HassanAl Abdullah



Pls read my write-up on Farhad Mazhar.

http://www.amadershomoy.com/news.php?id=21026&sys=0

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Tapan K. Bagchi