SA Shofiee, Sylhet :
Today the walls of the Sylhet city are covered with innumerable beautiful graffiti.
They have painted innumerable still pictures on the walls by arranging the shields of the words that burn like gunpowder in the consciousness.
The young people who woke up in the wake of betrayal brought the dawn of light to Bangladesh by climbing the ladder of extreme self-sacrifice, the birds of that dawn are still keeping the beloved motherland alive.
They defeated that monster. These young people, who are full of energetic vitality, have created an aesthetic atmosphere of their creative aspirations and expression on the wall through graffiti painting in groups.
“New Bangladesh 2024″, Be The Light”, “Water Needs Water”, “We Will Win”, “Blood is hot, head is cold”, “Now or when?”, “My friend has forgotten to be a human while becoming a leader”. Listen to the moneylenders, we are many”, “Baba Oi Dekho Helicopter”, “Subodh Bhor Jai Gaya”, “Hard Days Ended – Aize Uddin” etc. They fill the walls of the city with a collection of recent spoken words and creative images.
The protest poster of one of the martyrs of the anti-quota movement, Abu Saeed, standing with his chest open, Shaheed Mochad’s eloquent utterance “Pani Lagbee Pani” in the heart of the student youth society of Bangladesh, the spirit of protest that was born, the determination to build a new Bangladesh is seen in the form of those involved in wall painting. .
Under the auspices of “Bangladesh Mavericks”, the graffiti drawing is going on in Sylhet city with the participation of 59 batch students of computer science department of Metropolitan University, which started on August 9. Students from Sylhet’s Leading University, Scholars Home, Jalalabad Cantonment Public School and College, and several other educational institutions participated in it.
Sadia Ahmed, one of the coordinators of graffiti, said-“We enlivened the walls of Sylhet with creative graffiti in honor of our martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the quota movement. The recent movement was a significant chapter in our history as brave young men stood up against injustice, demanding fair treatment and abolition of discriminatory quotas. Their struggle and final Through self-sacrifice we have been able to uphold the spirit of freedom and equality in the country”.
Anas Zafar, Pallab Bagchi, Mehmed Rahat, Mohammad Salim, Ahsanur Rahman Adnan, Rayhan Rahman, Redwan, Farhan Ahmad, Syed Hasan Salman among others were active in the graffiti painting organized by Tamim Ul Islam Chowdhury, the founder of social organisation, “Bangladesh Mavericks”.
