denny Ethnic & National book

Jasim Uddin poet and litterateur, poet of the people of Bengal ("Pallikabi") Whenever I read Jasim Uddin, I feel myself immersed in the beauties of rural Bangladesh.(Khan Ziaul Huq, Magura, Daily Star, July 6, 2006). Jasimuddin's deep involvement in non-communal socio-political movements championing the cause of Bengali language and literature gives his lyric and folksy poetry a keen edge of commitment and protest. His poems are popular as part of school curricula in West Bengal, India as much as in Bangladesh. Only Dr. Dinesh Chandra Sen fully recognized Jasim Uddin's the talent and unique discovery of natural bengali heritage and culture. But as our present history, we do not respect our cultural and social heritage. When Bangladesh was liberated from the clutches of Punjabi-Sindhi cliques of Pakistani bourgeoisies in 1971, we were promised a society based on Democracy, Socialism, Nationalism and Secularism; that pledge has never come into being; on the contrary, with a heavy heart, we observe the advent of one military despot after another who whored our sacred constitution, plundered the country's national resources and had made it a hell for religious and ethnic minorities. Now the country has become a filthy playground for a group of lumpen bourgeoisies, who, half-literate and uncultured as they are, driven by a get-rich-quick lifestyle, are aping the most rotten and putrid versions of Indian and US cultures. Bangla musical genres like Aul, Baul, Marfati and ...