Jibanananda Fair starts in Barisal
117th birth anniversary of the Poet
The three-day Jibanananda Fair to observe the 117th birth anniversary of the most popular poet of modern Bengali literature started at Govt. BM College on Wednesday morning calling for more study and research on him.
The festival has been organised by Uttrayan, a cultural organisation of the college. The programme features a discussion, book fair, procession and cultural functions.
M. Ziaul Haque Barisal Education Board (BEB) inaugurated the fair and SM Imanul Hakim principal Govt. BM College addressed the programme as chief guest.
Jibanananda Das, born on February 17, 1899 in Barisal, spent most of his time as an English literature teacher in BM College. He remained anchored in his own soil and time, successfully assimilating experiences real and virtual and producing hundreds of unforgettable lines. His intellectual vision was thoroughly embedded in Bengal's nature and beauty.
His success as a premier modern Bengali poet in post-Tagore era can be attributed to the fact that Das in his poetry not only discover the tract of the slowly evolving 20th-century modern mind, sensitive and reactive, full of anxiety and tension, the speakers discussed.
Participant of the programmes also demanded a memorial research Academy in his own residence.
On October 14, 1954, while unmindfully crossing a street near Kolkata's Deshapriya Park, Jibanananda was hit by a tram and died eight days after, on October 22.