BSS, Faridpur :
The 38th death anniversary of Polli Kabi Jasimuddin was observed here this morning today in a befitting manner.
In this connection Faridpur district administration and Faridpur Jasim Foundation jointly chalked out a programme at poet’s ancestral home at village Gobindapur in the outskirts of the district town.
District administration and Jasim foundation led by ADC (Gen) Md. Jahangir Hossain placed floral wreaths at the tomb of the poet. Besides a number of cultural and literary organisations in the morning placed floral wreaths at the tomb of the poet adjacent to the home of poet situated on the bank of dried up river Kumar.
A discussion meeting on the poet was held at the tomb site.
The discussion meeting was chaired by ADC(Gen) Jahangir Hossain.
Among others Prof. M A Samad, poet’s son Dr. Jamal Anowar, educationist Prof. Altaf Hossain, cultural activists Mofiz Imam Milon and Kushal Chowdhury took part in the discussion.
Speakers addressing the meeting said that the creativity of poet Jasimuddin in projecting the rural Bengal is unparallel in Begali literature. His art of expression and composition depicting life, pain, happiness, love and other related surroundings got a fresh height in Begali poems.
ADC (Gen) Jahangir Hossain said that the ‘Jasim Museum Complex’ which is nearing completion adjacent to poet’s ancestral home would be enriched with the collections of literary works of Jasimuddin. The ADC further said that there will be provisions of research on Jasimuddin and sought the cooperation of all particularly the family members to make the complex meaningful.
