“Jibanananda Fair” starts in Barisal

A three-day long Jibanananda Fair starts at Amrita Lal Mahabidhalaya in City on Friday morning calling for more study and research on him.

The festival was organised by Jatiyo Kabita Parishad Barisal Unit and included a rally, a 'Kobi Adda' discussion, a book fair and cultural functions.

Dr Pabitra Sarker, an eminent writer and ex-VC of Rabindra Bharati University inagurated the festival and fair.

This programme included placing floral wreathes at the portrait of the poet, recitation of poetry and discussion by Tapankar Chakraborty, Dipankar Chakrabarty, Partha Sarathi, Mukul Das and Aroop Talukdar at residence of Poet Jibananda Das.

Jibanananda Das 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, they said.

His success as a premier modern Bengali poet in post-Tagore era may be attributed to the facts that Jibanananda Das in his poetry discovered the tract of the slowly evolving 20th-century modern mind, sensitive and reactive, full of anxiety and tension, the speakers opined.

Jibanananda Das invented that in his own diction, rhythm and vocabulary, with an unmistakably indigenous rooting, and that he maintained a self-styled lyricism and imagism mixed with an extraordinary existentialist sensuousness, perfectly suited to the modern temperament in the country-context, participants observed.