Art & Culture Report :
Lecture session of veteran Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty was held at Bengla Shilpalaya Café in the city’s Dhanmondi area recently.
The 90-year old poet, who was born in 1924 in Faridpur of the then undivided Bengal, came to Bangladesh recently for a short visit to participate in the award-giving ceremony of ‘HSBC-Kali O Kolom Young Writers Award,’ held in Dhaka recently.
In his lecture, the poet clarified his points by reading one of his recent poems titled Sakullyey Teenjon (Only Three). The poem deals as simply as possible with urban people’s reality where the old concept of ‘house’ is being replaced by the new reality of ‘flat.’
The short, but memorable speech, by the aged poet concluded on this last note.
Seasoned recitation artiste Bhaswar Bondopadhyay recited a few of Nirendranth Chakrabarty’s poems at the programme presided over by noted educationist Emeritus Professor Anisuzzaman. n