Tuesday, January 01, 2008

News at Eleven: When the travelling theatre, the Jatra,

came to town he [Jasim Uddin] and his cousin, Nehaj Uddin, would sneak off and stay up all night listening lo the play. Throughout the year they enjoyed both the Hindu and the Moslem holidays.

Jasim Uddin was proud of belonging to the folk tradition of Bengali literature. He was pleased by a comment of one critic who, praising his autobiography, said: "Reading Jasim Uddin's Jiban Katha (autobiography) is like eating country cakes from mother's own hand."

from The Daily Star: On poet Jasim Uddin's 103rd birthday

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