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Abol HUSSAIN - poet, in West Bengal 1937-47, initally left now a
patriot, 74, born on 15/8/22 in Khulna - Dhaka, 21/4/97
186 - 'it was on that day, 15 Aug 47, that I left Cal and went
to Dhaka'
190 - [Cal killings] 'for three days and three nights there was
continuing carnage, the atrocities, some of my saddest
memories of Cal'
195 - didn't go to Suhrawardy's mtg;
199 - 'I bel perhaps it was started by the other comm, not the
Ms, cos the ms wer really not v prepared for this kind
of thing ... my younger brother ... he went to that mtg;
if I had any misgivings ... about what was really coming,
we wd not have allowed that young boy to come to that
mtg'
214 - 'the troubles started at noon, much before the mtg; they
were going in processions to the Cal maidan ... from all
over the city, and while they were going they were
attacked from house tops ... and then everybody started'
228 - living in a mixed area, used to come out with friends to
main street, Lower Circ Rd, 'and there I found the drains
littered with bodies; I found one day a man was beaten
to death with an iron rod, it was ghastly really ... it
was v diff't to say who killed whom'
250 > quotes Comm't Hiren Mukherjee as expressing doubts that
Ms started violence
258 - [ind day] 'I was v v sad on that day ... for one thing I
was leaving Cal, and I nevr contemplated leaving Cal ...
I belong to a literary circle which was based in Cal, as
a matter of fact Cal is the centre for all cultural,
literary and artistic activity in Bengal in those days;
I cd never think of leaving Cal', and most friends Hs
275 - 'I left Cal cos I found that most Ms are coming to E Beng
even those who belong to the other part ... all the M
writers, artists, musicians, came over to E Beng in those
days'
289 - 'we are a co which became ind twice ... in 1947 and again
ind in 71 ... one which we v much achieved ourselves ...
the other was more or less a gift of the Cong'
300 - tried for a united independent Bengal, 'unf didn't
succeed' mainly cos of H M'sabha
315 - 'I didn't really wqnt it you see that beng sd be divided'
320 - [partition] 'I bel it has been beneficial to the people
in this part of the co; ... when I was a student of the
Cal Univ ... there was not a single M girl in my class of
around 150 ... the entire univ had perhaps 9/10 M girls
reading for Masters'
336 - 'if you look at the Ms of Ind, they are today, and part
those in WB, they are really one of the v v backward
class; before partn ... Ms were mostly cultivators,
tailors, bearers, paeons, chauffeurs, but now in this
co, in B'desh, you find the sitn entirely diff't; ...'
353 - 'what the H did in about 300 yrs we in B'desh have |
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