KABOR BY JASIM UDDIN POET OF BENGAL - BANGLARKABI video

RECITED BY JASIM UDDIN 'Kabar', first published in 1929 in Rakhali (Pastoral Poems),was as a text for the Matriculation Examination of Calcutta University while Jasim Uddin was still a student of IA class. "I was surprised when in 1929 I read Jasimuddin's poem "Kabar" in Calcutta Universitys selection of Bengali texts for the Matriculation examination. A poem by a Muslim writer in the Matriculation selections! And that too under the auspices of the University of Calcutta? . . . A teacher of mine told me a story about this. There was forceful opposition in [the University's] Syndicate to the inclusion of by a student. But Dr Dinesh Sen was the number one advocate for Jasimuddin. . . . Apparently, he countered the opposition by saying, "All right, please be patient and just listen to me recite the poem." He had a passionate voice and could recite poetry well. He read the poem with such wonderful effect that the eyes of many members of the Syndicate were glistening with tears." KABAR - GRAVE Here, under the pomegranate tree, is your grandmother's grave; For thirty years my tears have kept it green. She was a little doll-faced girl when she came to my horne, And she wept to be done with the play ofher childhood days. Returned from my travelling onee, I suddenly knew She had been in my thoughts all the time. Like the dawn her golden face would blind my eyes, And from that day I lost myselfamong smallj oys of hers. There along that path I'd take the plough to the fields And ...