Kabir Sumon is the one who has lent us the most words in love, protest, resistance and rejection for the last thirty years.
Now just wait, when that Kabir Sumon will get up from the hospital bed and say again with guitar in hand, he is a singer ....
I personally believe that no other poet after Rabindranath has influenced the greater Bengal thinking in this way. In love and hate, we have not repeatedly knelt before anyone else No writer has been able to become a bard poet of political change in this way that said, we have repeatedly murmured the writings of Kabir Sumon for rejection:
'If you think you're buying me wrong ..'
At the same time, Kabir Sumon has touched on the context of Hindu-Muslim relations in India in such a way that future history, no matter how it is written, must be mentioned.
We have to keep in mind that in India, Yusuf Khan has to change his name to Dilip Kumar, or Shabana Reza has to act in Bollywood under the name Neha, or prolific maestro Talat Mahmood as Tapan Kumar and at least a decade after marrying an actor like Manoj Vajpayee, we know what his real identity is. Kabir took the risk of becoming Sumon and even then he ruled the cultural world of Bengal in the existing with grand presence.
The system needs to have the talent of Cassius Clay to challenge any system in this way, but also the confidence to change itself as Mohammad Ali. Mohammad Ali or Kabir Sumons say every moment, what kind of champions are ...
When Sumon Chatterjee first introduced Sumon's songs in the 90th decade of 19th century, Bengali songs have changed dramatically, they are actually widely used and in an western tune. The comparison made by the all-India English newspaper ‘India Today’ at that time is actually correct Bob Dylan of Bangla Song came Dylan was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his writings Only time will tell what history should be given to Kabir Sumon, history will decide
Ever since that time, that is, since the 9th century, his songs, fans of his writing, have seen him say over and over again, in fact, he floated in a strange nostalgic boat. This is the real magic of the waves of emotion, the turmoil in the memory.
At that time, I used to hear that writings about those turbulent political days of the seventies, or bringing it from Nicaragua to Kalyani locale with the stroke of a pen is the reason for fascination. Today, when I was in my fifties, I realized that he was a mirror, a mirror of Bengali life.
Otherwise one can write:
Everyone is in love for the first time ....
Or Pythagoras's formula for civic life ... ten feet by ten feet ...
Like millions of us who grew up in the 19th century, I was a fan of Sumon Chatterjee. After that affection, the long personal salvation of identity and one-time intimacy is really personal It does not help to understand the historical significance of Kabir Sumon or the long shadow cast on Bengali thinking The personal range only says Kabir da rage and unrequited love If you are angry, you can go to Batanagar day after day to act in a bad movie. This is the symphony of Kabir Sumon's life
Like many other Bengalis, I am indebted to Kabir Sumon in many ways But there is a separate debt, which must be acknowledged in this article. People like me who have fallen in love many times, waiting for someone in one of the coffee shops in this subcontinent, on Oxford Street or in Manhattan, counting the hours with the eyes of the woman on the opposite side and feeling the heartbeat of themselves and the opposite side, know that the heart of a Bengali woman goes to Sumon. : 'I want you.'
Really, Sumon, we want you. Bengali, Bengali wants you.
Sumon Bhattacharya, eminent journalist, poet and storyteller from Kolkata.