Amid protests in opposition to an assault on Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestral house in Bangladesh, poets, writers, and intellectuals wrote to Bangladesh Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday demanding “exemplary punishment” for the culprits behind the “shameful and condemnable” incident.
A letter signed by eminent litterateurs Professor Mihir Deb and Ratul Debbarman; famend theatre artist Bibhu Bhattacharya; painter, mime artist, and Sangeet Natak Academy awardee Swapan Nandy; and Professor Mujahid Rahman, was despatched through the West Tripura district Justice of the Peace’s workplace, from the place it’s anticipated to be forwarded to the Assistant Excessive Fee of Bangladesh at Agartala. The Assistant Excessive Fee is in flip anticipated to ahead the letter to Dhaka.
Within the letter, the signatories stated their protest was voiced from Tripura, which has an extended relationship with Tagore and was visited by him a number of occasions, and that the folks of the state have been “deeply damage” by the assault on the Nobel literature laureate’s ancestral ‘kacharibari’ (income workplace) at Shahzadpur in Bangladesh’s Sirajganj district final week.
“Rabindranath Tagore is the consciousness that encircles all our inspirations, consciousness. He’s a beacon holder of worldwide thought, rising above the slim limitations of language, identification, faith, color. We have fun him on daily basis by way of the nationwide anthem. We imagine with all our coronary heart that every part which share his reminiscence are of pleasure for us. Insult or disrespect to Rabindranath Tagore – whether or not it’s in our nation or elsewhere, is shameful and condemnable, unpardonable,” reads the letter.
The vandals haven’t solely broken valuable historic belongings but in addition insulted the cultural values of thousands and thousands of individuals and deserve “correct justice” and “exemplary punishment”, the writers and artists additional wrote within the letter.
On Monday, the ruling BJP protested in Agartala in opposition to the vandalism and assaults on minority communities in Bangladesh. BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee and leaders Subal Bhowmik, Bhagaban Das, Mimi Majumdar, and others carried placards and banners condemning the developments within the neighbouring nation.
Earlier, on June 14, comparable protests occurred in different elements of the state, together with at Kailashahar in Unakoti, the Raghna worldwide border in North Tripura, Sonamura in Sepahijala, Belonia in South Tripura, and Agartala.
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TIPRA Motha additionally organised a number of protests in opposition to the vandalism in Bangladesh.