Hai Savar! Hai Savar

Hai Karbala!! Hai Karbala!!
Hai savar! Hai savar!
Keyamot! Keyamot!
Life! Terror! Death! Anguish! Dead Body!!
Crying!! Tears of Blood!!

Sleeping With Death

Lets go to bed and sleep and dream.. May that dream come again and may I live while dying.
Let me kiss you, death, and say I love you
Because you give meaning to my life!
Yes how true you were!
Death is beautiful
Death is friendly
Death is all alone!
You are the only life which can't die!
Death, I feel pity for you..
You are devoid of the gift of which you are sole authority
You can't taste what you make all tasted!
Dear death you can't die a sweet death!

Secularism: The Arrival of a New Religion

I'm afraid 'secularism' is also becoming a religion here!
It has its prophets, priests and fanatic followers!
There can be nothing outside secularism... Secularism is the only truth. All other truths are false or half-truth. You have to be secular!
If you don't you will be forced and cornered to be secular..
I'm afraid my right as an individual, a free-thinking, free -following man is being threatened!

Meditation :: 01+02 and Sabidin's Sermons

1)
If anyone can control oneself he can control millions..
Everyone is an army of legions. You need to be a good and able general to direct your forces.
If anyone can succeed in controlling ones forces he is sure to lead the world..
Lets be your leader first, you can lead the world!

2)
If you are happy you can consult with a book how you can celebrate your happiness in precision and proper manner.
If you are sad you do consult with a book. It will introduce you with the ways to celebrate sadness.
It will say never panic when happiness or sorrows come. They are the children of same origin/parents. And they come in turn!

3)
If you have some money to waste please waste behind books.
It is such a waste which reward you with huge profit.

4) Never yield to your passions and emotions, consult with your head.

Conversation with Myself :: Nelson Mandela

'Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. Those who are in the centre of political struggle, who have to deal with practical and pressing problems, are afforded little time for reflection and no precedents to guide them and are bound to slip up many times. But in due course, and provided they are flexible and prepared to examine their work self critically, they will acquire the necessary experience and foresight that will enable them to avoid the ordinary pitfalls and pick out their way ahead amidst the throb of events.'

Conversation with Myself
Nelson Mandela

*When did we hear from our politicians that they make mistakes. Our politicians never do any mistake... Here everything they do are right. Rights are right. Wrongs are right too!!

Pahela Boishakh, 1420 What Gifts I Gifted Myself

Was loitering around Neelkhet and New Market after evening adda with my comrades. Was thinking what gift I can give to myself! Went to Rafin Plaza(Friends book corner). It was closed. Then to New Market, gift shops+book shops. Searched bags, pads, world maps and so forth. It happened to me a book with white cover tempt me to take it.
"The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama with a smiling photo of him! I saw this book no less then 100 times before. I didn't buy it. Why?
I was reading the first and the last few pages. It tempted me well!
There was no other way rather buying it. I bought a red pen to mark on this book.
Yes "The Audacity of Hope" and the red gel pen are the gifts to myself!
I like to thank myself on this very special day:)

How Cheap is Life Here

A news on the back page of The Daily Star with a headline "Teenager Killed" on April,2013 shaken me terribly. We're becoming in some way used to the ongoing political hurdles across the country. We're in a way disenchanted and disheartened to talk about the political scenario which is deteriorating day by day.
But news of the killing of a teenager in a row over playing cricket broke my heart! How cheap is life here in Bangladesh! How cheap it is to take away and how cheap it is to give away! Such a useless, unnecessary death! Such a hurried end of a promise! Such a terrible blow to the parents those whom he was the only son! How we can console them?
A few days ago young Taki was killed in Narayangonj in another fashion. How terrible and insecure a country we're leaving behind for our future generation!


Sabidin Ibrahim
Department of English
University of Dhaka