Sermons of Sabidin

Don't expose your weakness public.

A Witness to Chatro League Brutality

I went to central library to read German Ideology and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, two of the many books standing before me as a threatening experience!
I started reading managing a chair in the reference section along with Arif, Rokon and Russel. I remembered I should help Dolon to make his digital library card. I sent a message to her and then gave my full attention to German Ideology and I was going on well and my speed was satisfactory.
I read 15-20 page when I heard sound of talking in the paper section. It was a great nuisance for me and the students who were reading then. Slowly the sounds grew louder and we were listening the sound of slapping and beating and shouting from the student who was crying and also the students who were the reasons of his crying.
Like many of the curious students who left their seats to see what was happening there I also stood up.
And I see their what Bisshojeet might have experienced!

A round faced handsome student was being beaten by some chatro league leaders. I know the faces of both of the students. The student who was leading the attack on the other is also a smart, dashing face in the campus. He rode around the campus with his bike and he is from Surjosen hall. I don't know the name of any of the two leading characters of that drama of great assault on humanity. (Later I know that the leader of the assault was 'Baten' and the victim was 'Mostafiz')
The student was appealing to the students who were reading and the library authorities to save him from the attack on his life in the library, the library, the very place where a student should sharpen his human faculties to the utmost. Here we saw this cruel attack on a student, whom I knew to be a regular student of the library. He used to had tea around us but he wouldn't mix with us but used to see with a curious eye.
Now the cadres began to snatch him away from the library so that they can beat him well outside.

And he was brought outside and beaten till he became bare and only the underwear in his body and he fall to the ground. The attackers left him in the ground.
He was lying in front of central library conscious or unconscious I don't know.

After 10 minutes or more the proctorial team came and took him to the hospital.



19-12-2012   

Let Me Say (amake bolte dao) by Mrittika Chakma (The Hill Still Cry)

Let me say
I've listened your praising for long.
My ears are jampacked
No more, this time let me say
I've been made machine doll
I dance as you direct
I've been made pet bird
I say what you say
I've been made camel of the desert
I carry whatever you give.

Let me say
It is time, lets speak
If not I'll shout to speak up with full volume
I'm man/human, I have love
I want lover
I'll love you freely
So/then you don't have the right to bar against me
Giving and receiving love is worldly accepted
So I'll give love to my lover.

Some Harsh Words for Shakespeare

Whatever genius he is we should read him critically like any other English writer. He was living in that age when England began to set colonies worldwide and he was not critical of any of the misgivings of English or he had no foresight to see what colonialism will do in future. We will get clear mark in his plays of racism, apartheid and colonial mentality. And that his characterization is also questionable. Unfortunately there is a language of awe, over admiration in the mouthy professors of English in Bangladesh. Even in America students need not to go study Shakespeare as much we do. Christopher Merrill told us in an adda.
Shakespeare never used London or any other cities of England in his plays. He used other European and Continental cities there i.e. Milan, Venice etc and even his characters are named not as any English Malvolio, Othello, Desdemona, Iago, Antonio, Bassanio, Shylock, Cordelia etc( of course Henry, Richard and few more can be found in England but he dared not to set his plays in England!)

Victory Day

Our ancestors made their highest sacrifice- gave their blood, lives and all to give us a free state. Lets we, in our time struggle as hard as them to make this freedom meaningful. Lets make impossible possible remembering our past glory and celebrate the present with hard work and dedication and welcome the future with vision and mission to make this country one of the finest, richest, developed and peaceful countries of the world. Lets we sit with the world communities with honor and dignity.
Lets we stand on ourselves.
Lets we work together.
Lets this victory day to be the beginning point our journey ahead of us where all the glories and victories are waiting..

Sermons of Sabidin

You can have some good time with your friends, some better with the family, but the best time you can have with you and yourself.

*sermons of Sabidin Ibrahim:):):D