Future of Bengalis as a Linguistic Denomination...

       

                         Akhanda Bangla Anushilon Samiti

                                                  

I am not a great thinker, nor do I have great learning; but what I have is concern for my land—you may call it love for motherland—which I think does not call for anything of special significance. What if I have great wealth and my body is rotting? It’s sure enough that neither my body nor my wealth would be of any use.

Similarly what if I have great learning but the land under my feet is slipping away..or that my name doesn’t attribute to a place of my own... or that everywhere I am threatened overwhelmed by a majority that is hostile to my language, suspicious of my culture as if I were given to constant endeavour to sabotage to claim what is not mine or what is taken from me?

This is the life and the reality of a landless nation. And I am quite sure we, the Bengalis are coming to that... slowly but surely our destiny is being written much in the same way as that of the Jews centuries ago.

We all know to what they went through...what they lived...It was but for Hitler things took a turn and the Jews irrespective of place and standing  threw their arms to one another for universal Brotherhood. They were hated almost across the length and breadth of Europe, deprived of basic rights, exploited, prejudiced and discriminated and at the far end assaulted and nearly decimated.

With so many languages in a country that has no National Character, where the country is more of a concept than a nation, where people still reel under the subtle after-effect of colonial slavery in  culture, thoughts and actions, where Democracy is crumbling under a wicked  game of number, where people have no palpable alternative to injustice and exploitation, where there exist qualitative differences between the intellectual make-up of one region and that of the other in matters regard to culture and political outlook....Can we in any case survive with our Bangla language...can we survive as a linguistic race without making any compromise on the ethos that define our very existence? Do we have that economic capability to sustain ourselves as a race that has a distinct characteristic?

Today we need to ask ourselves only one question—‘Is there going to be anything as Bengali in the next 100 years should civilisation survive?’

Thus, you don’t need to be a pedant to foresee your survival on earth...

All you need is a little common sense, which I’m sure we are all amply bestowed with...!!!

Joy Bangadesh...!!!

Joy Matribhumi...!!!