Comments on: Shamsur Rahman, 1929-2006

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:09:22 +0000

he is great,just great

By: sabir

sabir — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:51:56 +0000

SAylheti is not a Sylheti. He is actually from Chadpur or a different area of Comilla. He is making comments to show a particular group of Bangladeshis in bad ways. We should not bring “Ancholic” mentality in discussing such a great literary figure. similarities in Web Trolling attacks by this user can be found everywhere in the internet. Look up web trolling or web troll on wikipedia.

By: SAylheti

SAylheti — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:03:36 +0000

I do not celebrate this poets passing. He means nothing to me. As a Sylheti, I think Dhaka-centric media is going overboard in this and neglecting regional cultural developments outside Dhaka.

By: Monowar

Monowar — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:33:41 +0000

Hero Md. Monowarul Kabir

If anyone try to break The traditions, He will be a hero. Poet Shamsur Rahman is my hero.

By: Nafees

Nafees — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:57:51 +0000

Not bad …not bad at all…in fact quite good.

By: Monaz Haque

Monaz Haque — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:37:00 +0000

Homage to Poet Shamsur Rahman -Mir Monaz Haque

I'm a lousy virtual site designer, I compose my tardy work for ist potential user, And published just before the world wakes up, Hanging in its unbound paper In its everyday layout, as I do, For Yesterdays, Todays and Tomorrows too.

I love the trinity of Shamsur Rahman , As he narrates with words of groan , 'Shadhinata Tumi' that of liberty , A poem of equality and fraternity. The whole nation is crying today As yesterday, he has passed away.

I'm a lousy virtual site designer, I compose my tardy work for its potential user, And will continue as i did yesterday, As i am doing today and will continue to do tomorrow Until this message breaks the world into Fragments and has scanned his words.

By: Siddique

Siddique — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:40:40 +0000

It is absolutely unbearable loose for the whole nation. With his depurture from this world, a gape has been created among us. His contribution in the contemporary Bangla literature is incredible. We have lost such a voice, who was always against of bigoty, unjustice, suppresion and oppresion of society. we all wish his voice and message to the society will remain strong as it was before.

By: Shuvo

Shuvo — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:11:53 +0000

I am feeling really very sorry for our famous poet. it is a matter of great regret to our nation that our country has lost such a wonderful person and as well as poet. the gap which has been created for his die will never been fulfilled ever. May allah give him the door of heaven. May Allah give the strength to his family to recover this pain.

By: Nafees Husain

Nafees Husain — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:35:27 +0000

I am new to this forum and found it by chance. Actually since I’ve been away from home, I stumbled on it while scourging the net to find anything and everything concerning Shamsur Rahman’s death….which saddened me. I knew him personally and met him a couple of times and had many one on one sittings with him. I am yet to meet another humble, compassionate and non secular person like him. He had no reason to give a young admirer the amount of time he spent on me. I have read him extensively and have also read the other poets named here Sunil, Shakti, Sharot, Songkho and many others as well. All named here associated with the Kirtibash poetry movement are great poets on their own right. Although New Nation has commented that he was superior to other poets of west bengal is too early and an unfair judgment. Shamsur Rahman too would refuse such a comparison. ItÂ’s like comparing Beethoven to Mozart or Bach or vice versa. Individual works may be compared but as for the voice, each is beautiful and unique. However, I can relate to where this sentiment is coming from. PakistaniÂ’s thought we were inferior or Â“AtrafÂ” muslims or that our version of Islam got convoluted with Hinduism. The literati in West Bengal thought that though we spoke the same language our works are inferior if not lacking in taste. As for the PakistaniÂ’s we have proven to be more tolerant and humbly refuse to claim superiority. For the West Bengali literati they understand that without national boundaries their language will not die out but will be weakened with the all encompassing dominance of Hindi. Something that happened to Urdu literature in India. Even in Bangladesh there were groups who have claimed that Al Mahmud another great Bangladeshi poet is a better or greater poet than him since Mamhmud’s poems take in the common man’s dialect. What separates Rahman from others is that, his poems were associated with all the major events Bangladesh as a nation went through from the pre independence days to the present and inspired a nation still reeling from poverty, corruption, insecurity, fundamentalism, political & ideological abyss. We have very few people to be truly proud about. Shamsur Rahman is one of them. As for the comparison, history will judge him and all other great Bengali poets. But as a Bengali I am proud that our language has produced so many prolific poets although we now have separate national boundaries. In the world of poetry we are way up there. Not many nations or language can boast that. Sad that we donÂ’t have translations of their works to the extent we need to have a world wide audience and acceptance. But one thing is for sure, poetry aside, Bangladesh has lost one of her most sane voices, if not the only!!

By: swastika

swastika — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:15:16 +0000

thanx a ton, Dipanjan…ur post is really praiseworthy…it certainly played a catalyst in growing interest about Shamsur Rahman in me…anyways, i regret that i havent read the poet much though i have heard my mother chant his name(rahman is her fav poet)…the day after his death, kolkata doordarshan payed a homage to the poet…i liked it, simple yet giving insights into the poet’s life,his mind….