Poems enthrall Bangladeshis in New York
Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United Nations witnessed a unique evening on Friday as three eminent poets from Dhaka enthralled the audience by reciting their poems.
Nirmalendu Goon, Mohadeb Saha and Muhammad Samad, who accompanied Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to New York, also answered a number of questions at the function.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni spent some time with the poets and greeted all who were present there.
Asked why he writes poem, Goon said what you can say in writing cannot be expressed through speech in many occasions.
''My aim to come here is to see the place of the Security Council inside the United Nations where Russian Jacob Malik had given vetoes thrice on the ceasefire proposal of the United States during our Liberation War,'' said the poet.
During the War, France expatriate Pitrindranath Mukherjee published a special supplement in the 'Lamd' newspaper in favour of Bangladesh's independence.
Poems by Goon were also included in the supplement, which stirred the French intellectuals.
Against this backdrop, noted French poet Andre Marlow expressed his support in favour of the Liberation War.
Goon proposed Bangladesh government to officially honour Andre Marlow and Alen Ginsberg who is famous for his poem ''September on Jessore Road''.
Mohadeb Saha said poetry creates semblance through alphabets and plays with alphabets. ''I am writing poems and don't bother anyone calls me a poet or not,'' he added.
Muhammad Samad said he writes poems to earn love of people.
Tamiz Uddin Lodi, Mumu Ansari and Sumin Shaon also recited poems among other Bangladeshi expatriates in New York.
Spouse of Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the UN Selina Momen presided.
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