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Monday, September 1, 2008

[mukto-mona] In the midst of Silence.

They are lying in rows after rows under various names, of so many ages, covered in many shades of emotions, some of grief, some with resignations and some with longings. But they all have one thing in common, they all are silent. Many people do have reservations about visiting a cemetery but I occasionally stroll around the graveyards just to discover the relationship between life and death. The distance between life and death is not very far, it's just a breath away. A few weeks before I went to visit a cemetery close to one of my friend's house. The reason was obvious, my friend has cancer. As Tagore wrote in his famous poem, "Wont let you go' the oldest cry of the humanity they does not want to part with their loved ones but still they have to. The very name of death instils fear in our minds and we all try to distance ourselves from this definite conclusion of life. In that cemetery I walked through hundreds of old and new graves and tried to read the epitaphs. I stopped at a grave where a five years old girl is buried who died in the spring of 1827. Mom and dad wrote these lines for their dear daughter." She was sent to us from the heaves but God could not live without her". I cried for few moments, sat there for sometime and tried to paint a face of that sweet girl in my mind.   

 

In Dhaka there is an old cemetery next to Boloda Gardens. I remember a grave where there is a statute of crying Mary. Many times I stood in silence before that grave and tried to fathom the pain. The eternal procession of time could not stop that feeling of pain and the stamp of silence is ever present there. I always like to read the epitaphs as they represent emotion and reality both. If you pass through the grave of Mel Blanc in the Hollywood cemetery, you will read a little funny but in reality very true epitaph" That's all Folks". Sir Isaac Newton's has these words written by Alexander Pope." Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. God said, Let Newton be and all was light," W.B.Yeats has this one," Cast a cold eye on life, on death, Horseman, and pass by". And who does not know the famous epitaph of our great poet Madhusudan Dutta.' Stop O passer-by for a few moments if you are born in Bengal, Darao hey pathikbor jonmo jodi tobo Bongay…………

 

I find nature has a unique way of working. It brings a roaring life to an end to start a new one. Happiness defeats pain and the cycle of life go no. We may question which reality is close to our hearts? I find it's our life not death. But death has its own place in our lives but it does not deter our determinations to have a full life. On the other hand life and death is essential to maintain the health of our nature.

 

Akbar Hussain




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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh

http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/university_teachers_arrest.htm

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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
http://www.mukto-mona.com/news/daily_star/daily_star_MM.pdf

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MM site is blocked in Islamic countries such as UAE. Members of those theocratic states, kindly use any proxy (such as http://proxy.org/) to access mukto-mona.

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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/5_yrs_anniv/index.htm

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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Earth_day2006/index.htm

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Kansat Uprising : A Special Page from Mukto-Mona 
http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/kansat2006/members/


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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Roumari/freedom_fighters_union300306.htm

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German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/german_radio/


Mukto-Mona Celebrates Darwin Day:

http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/index.htm

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Some FAQ's about Mukto-Mona:

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               -Beatrice Hall [pseudonym: S.G. Tallentyre], 190




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