by Anisur Rahman
The people who enjoy business and bureaucracy as their career, they don’t need to be poet. In their trial of being poet, they somehow invite troubles and dart waters in the world of poetry. I am thus not dismissing the exception. Such great exception is our very respected poet Abul Hossain.
This question of bureaucracy and business over poetry knocks me when I learn a seating top ranking bureaucrat of Bangladesh is fuelling the troubles over the expulsion of businessman cum poet Mohan Raihan from the Poetry Council of Bangladesh.
Once, Finish Writers’ Union expelled its member, who was also the president of Finland at the same time. In spite of being president of the country, he had nothing to do against the expulsion decision of the union. It indicates one could be so powerful, if he missed poetic power as a poet, other power does not mean any in the survival of a poet as of being in the union of writers or the council of poets.
I think this is clear pointer to the bureaucrat and the businessman having total different pace, love to have signboards of being poet. It will not work. History does not tell us so. Poetry is not so silly matter. It requires cent percent honesty within.
A successful bureaucrat these days does have snake skin. He can change it as a snake does when it is necessary in different regimes like Jamaat-BNP or military or Awami League. So is the bureaucrat concerned, I am talking about.
When president of Finland was powerless to the Finish Writers’ Union, then a businessman or a bureaucrat should not be a headache for the Poetry Council of Bangladesh. The council upholds its very strong conceptual position, though it struggles a lot in the need of infrastructural capacity.
Against this backdrop, it is much expected and high time the government come up with necessary supports for its smooth functional and help it in having institutional shape to contribute to literary scenes in Bangladesh having large international collaboration with other countries. Poets are considered to be unwritten guardians of languages. In line with this spirit, the government should do something in favour of the poetry council, when ministers stress their commitment to promote the spirit of International Mother Language Day and thus help survival of beauties in different languages.
Business and politics is highest form of compromise in life. Poetry never allows compromising. Bureaucracy has no sovereign spirit for one who wants to be a poet. So? Poetry is not for businessmen, not for bureaucrats, not for politicians. One can point out Pablo Neruda, Mao Zedong and others. They were the Himalayas in their entities. In one life, an individual who could cash the identity of a bureaucrat or a businessman or a politician, he does not need to be poet. It is a pity for a bureacrat or a businessman concerned has no space to be a poet within or out. #
The people who enjoy business and bureaucracy as their career, they don’t need to be poet. In their trial of being poet, they somehow invite troubles and dart waters in the world of poetry. I am thus not dismissing the exception. Such great exception is our very respected poet Abul Hossain.
This question of bureaucracy and business over poetry knocks me when I learn a seating top ranking bureaucrat of Bangladesh is fuelling the troubles over the expulsion of businessman cum poet Mohan Raihan from the Poetry Council of Bangladesh.
Once, Finish Writers’ Union expelled its member, who was also the president of Finland at the same time. In spite of being president of the country, he had nothing to do against the expulsion decision of the union. It indicates one could be so powerful, if he missed poetic power as a poet, other power does not mean any in the survival of a poet as of being in the union of writers or the council of poets.
I think this is clear pointer to the bureaucrat and the businessman having total different pace, love to have signboards of being poet. It will not work. History does not tell us so. Poetry is not so silly matter. It requires cent percent honesty within.
A successful bureaucrat these days does have snake skin. He can change it as a snake does when it is necessary in different regimes like Jamaat-BNP or military or Awami League. So is the bureaucrat concerned, I am talking about.
When president of Finland was powerless to the Finish Writers’ Union, then a businessman or a bureaucrat should not be a headache for the Poetry Council of Bangladesh. The council upholds its very strong conceptual position, though it struggles a lot in the need of infrastructural capacity.
Against this backdrop, it is much expected and high time the government come up with necessary supports for its smooth functional and help it in having institutional shape to contribute to literary scenes in Bangladesh having large international collaboration with other countries. Poets are considered to be unwritten guardians of languages. In line with this spirit, the government should do something in favour of the poetry council, when ministers stress their commitment to promote the spirit of International Mother Language Day and thus help survival of beauties in different languages.
Business and politics is highest form of compromise in life. Poetry never allows compromising. Bureaucracy has no sovereign spirit for one who wants to be a poet. So? Poetry is not for businessmen, not for bureaucrats, not for politicians. One can point out Pablo Neruda, Mao Zedong and others. They were the Himalayas in their entities. In one life, an individual who could cash the identity of a bureaucrat or a businessman or a politician, he does not need to be poet. It is a pity for a bureacrat or a businessman concerned has no space to be a poet within or out. #
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