Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time: Fw: Statement of APDR against police attack on Nazrul Islam's Book

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Fw: Statement of APDR against police attack on Nazrul Islam's Book

From: sujit kumar banerjee <sujit2353@gmail.com>
Sent: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:23:51
To: sadhan roychowdhury <sadhan.roychowdhury1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Statement of APDR against police attack on Nazrul Islam's Book
WHAT A SHAME!! ARE WE STILL ALIVE OR WE ARE ALREADY DEAD??!! STAYING A FAR IN A COUNTRY WHERE KAJI NAZRUL ISLAM IS THE NATIONAL POET AND WHERE IN SPITE OF ALL ODDS LITERARY PERSONNEL OF ALL COUNTRIES, PARTICULARLY OF WEST BENGAL, ARE PLACED ON HIGHEST ESTEEM WE CAN NOT SHOW OUR FACES.

Sujit Banerjee

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:50 PM, sadhan roychowdhury <sadhan.roychowdhury1@gmail.com> wrote:

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Date: Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:14 PM
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Statement against police attack on Nazrul Islam's book

September 5, 2012
Released by APDR
(courtesy: SANHATI, http://sanhati.com/articles/5519/)

In recent times in West Bengal , there has been a continuous attack by the State on the right to freely express one's own opinion. Freedom of expression is our democratic and constitutional right, even if such expressions are in opposition to traditional beliefs or to government's opinions. The recent illegal police attack on Nazrul Islam's book is one such example. That in a civilized country, such police attacks can be brought to bear upon a book which has not even been banned, is unimaginable to us.

We are against any attack on the freedom of expression. During the rule of the earlier Left Front government, we have opposed and condemned any such attack. Even now, we are condemning and protesting against all kinds of attacks, including that by the police, on Nazrul Islam's book. At the same time, we are demanding that the chief minister Mamata Banerjee should remember her pre-election promise of restoring democracy and work towards implementing that.

Mahasweta Devi
Sunanda Sanyal
Kabir Suman

Tarun Sanyal
Kaushik Sen
Gautam Bhadra

Nabarun Bhattacharya
Pratul Mukhopadhyay
Dipankar Chakraborty

Sabyasachi Deb
Raghab Bandypadhyay
Suvendu Dasgupta

Sachchidananda Banerjee
Naba Dutta
Miratun Nahar

Jaya Mitra
Meher Engineer
Dr. Punyabrata Gun

Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
Amitadyuti Kumar
Bolan Gangyopadhay

Gautam Sen
Kumar Rana
Dilip Chakraborty

Nilanjan Dutta
Saswati Ghosh
Amit Bhattacharya

Chandana Mitra
Pranab De
Bipul Chakraborty

Subhashish Mukhopadhyay
Dipankar Das
Sumit Chaudhuri

Ashok Chattopadhay
Premanshu Dasgupta
Anusree Chakraborty

Tapas Chakraborty
Debprasad Raychaudhuri
Achintya Sural

Amit Dasgupta
Dhiraj Sengupta

On this issue, Sankha Ghosh says - "It is unthinkable that the police can make such an attack on a book which has not been banned. For the good of the State, the government should stop these activities immediately."

--
Sitangsu Kumar Bhaduri
11A/2, Dr. P. N. Mukherjee Street,
Chatra, Serampore
Dist- Hooghly (W.B.)
Pin- 712 204