August Tragedy: Turn mourning into mettle
Dhaka, Aug. 21 -- ".Once again, a storm of blood is rising/ Mujib, the great patriot/Sprawled on the ground in the pool of his own blood/ Clad .in a red coat decked with bullets/The cursed slaves to imperialism have waged genocide/. it's the story of Hussain against Yazid / O courageous comrades! Beware of Yazid/ If you unite, they'll lose." The Urdu poet, Mir Gul Khan Nasir (1914-1983), popularly known as 'People's poet of Baluchistan' wrote a wonderful elegy on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Central Jail Mach on 29 August, 1975 fourteen days after Mujib's assassination. A good many poems have been written on Mujib at home and abroad after his death, but I don't know, if such a brilliant poem on the dastardly killing of the Fat...
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