State Minister for Culture Affairs KM Khalid said Fakir Lalon Shah’s songs of love can be a truly effective way to transition from these hard times. He said society can get rid of many things if they can follow the philosophy of Lalon what he says through his songs. He said Lalon’s song has material of world harmoney.
He told it when was addressing in the second day’s discussion meeting of Baul King Fakir Lalon Shah’s memorial festival (Dolpurnima) at Cheuria Akhra Bari in Kushtia on Sunday (March 5) night. He was chief guest there.
The state minister said that Lalon has promoted people above all caste-religion limitations.
Even after 135 years of his death, Lalan is still relevant, popular and modern for the country and the nation across the world.
He said Lalon’s humanism and Baulism have shown people the way of peace. His Baul doctrine has become universal in the world today. He is being researched extensively in the world.
Deputy Commissioner of Kushtia Mohammad Saidul Islam presided over the event.
Lawmaker of Kushtia-4 (Khoksa-Kumarkhali) Constituency Barrister Selim Altaf George, Kushtia Superintendent of Police Khairul Alam, Professor Saktinath Jhan of West Bengal, India addressed the event among others.
The key speaker in the event was Abdur Rashid Chowdhury, the editor and publisher of Daily Bangladesh Barta Patrika, the speaker was prominent writer and researcher also editor the The Kushtia Times and the Daiky Kushtia Dr. Amanur Aman.
Dr. Amanur Aman in his discussion says that Bharat Chandra Roy, Ramprasad Sen were present in Bengal at the time of Lalon appeared in the late eighteenth century. At the same time, many great men, including Voltaire, Goethe, Schiller, Mozart, Pushkin, were shining in the world of European art-literature-music-philosophy.
There is no record whether the waves of those men came to Lalon’s small towns. However, an illiterate great man grew up in the harsh reality of the low caste people living in the lap of the magical nature of Bengal. In the language of songs written by him, we see things like philosophy, metaphysics, knowledge, existence. which sometimes exceeds the capacity of Euro-American debt.