Tearful August

Tearful August

'O Bangabandu!You made your home country by given your Dot-point blood'

'O Bangabandhu / Killed by brutal bullet I heard / crossed I looked at the distant sky / open window with a faint time / open window / With an unanswered question / Your Dot Bindu  blood built your home country / But you got no reward.'

These are the footsteps of a poem titled 'Sheikh Mujib Mahaprayan' written by Elangambam Nilakant, one of the top poets of Manipur, New Delhi, who was awarded the literary academy of New Delhi after the death of his father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15,1975.

The father of the nation was brutally martyred in the hands of the misguided army members in his home of Dhanmondi-32. On that night of the rainy season, the rain was not fall .only fall your blood.

The bullet of a killer blew the blood out of his chest as a 56 thousand square miles of printed Bangladesh. But the blood of Bangabandhu is like blood flowing in the heart of every Bengali. That is why the month of August is remembered with deep sorrow and respect.

Today is the tenth day of mourning. It was Sunday, August 10th. Then Sunday was a weekly holiday.

Bangabandhu was born in the wake of the Bengali release. Zeljulam has endured all his life in the struggle for the liberation of Bengalis and for them to establish an independent country. Standing next to the tombs that the Pakistani rulers have dug, they have sung to freedom. After independence, a war-torn country was advancing its light.
At various times, including the 47, 52, 69, 71, he returned to the door of death. But what the Pakistani hyenas could not do, was to do the cold-blooded sinners. They shattered Bangabandhu by shattering the silence of the sleepless city in the roar of tank-machine guns.

The murderers then wanted to remove his blood mark. But they failed. Every blood particle created a mujib in the house of Bengal today. He is in the mix of Bengal with the soil, the light, the air.

That is why Ananda Shankar Roy wrote: "Jatodin Rabe Padma Meghna / Gauri Jamuna Bahman / Totodin Rabe Kirti Tumar / Sheikh Mujibur Rahman / Teardrop / Bloody Ganga flowing / No fear will be won / Joy Mujibur Rahman."

The dream of Bangabandhu's lifetime was to establish the independence of Bengal and the nationalism of Bengalis. From childhood and adolescence, he grew up with this ideal. Prepare his self. Behind his characteristic conviction was a deep insight into deep study, acquaintance and listening. He was able to absorb the emotions of the heart enough. Behind him was his compassionate mind to love and help people.