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In Search of Alternative Bangla: A Recent Trend |
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Written by McMohan Khan
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009 |
 A despairing situation is loosing the fate of the recent wind of trendy Bangla writing, where as an ancient hereditary derivation is still hilariously lucent to the every writer's nowadays because of the present cultural topography. The good cult of R.N. Tagore is hoofing off it's own limit, beaming the azure intense, escalating the homogeneous thoughts of age-old bangla book-trading policy. The wind of trade and the writing -trend both discarding a writer from the honey & mellow of the culture. The recent & contemporaries are following the same untraced path of Tagore. The voluptuous bangla -classics have already started to be fading out from the present market by the wind of trendy comical postmodernists.
However, the money making mainstream bangla literature is not a moaning stud at all; it does big biz of millions of Rupees in every financial year, grows like a complan boy with proper social and cultural nutrition. The big volumes of bangla -classics still favor the traders and give solace to the readers.
However, neither a way of alteration of the readymade form of literature nor a trace of a newly -realized path of catharsis is found which to be followed immediately by the College Street Market. Before the crowded market of global capital and the alarming whistle of the testcross culture, it is too hard to give a handful thanks to the one who is alerting cultural disproportion and trying to write something new, merely subversive in nature. However, it is also a fashionable practice of some recent bangla writers.
Now the subversive, dissident, and anarchy writings are seriously needed to nourish the broken spine of present day's bangla writings.
We could remember, it was around 40 years ago the literary moves started by Hungrialists, seemed to be one of the major alternative way of writing, converging the idea of anti -establishment and anti -literature. That literature -genre had the power to penetrate the cultural flaws of mainstream adieux. Afterwards, their rise and the calculated annihilation toned the stressful colors of Bangla -Sansiriti more firmly to the palette of desi values. Accused by obscenity and the ruthlessness in literature, their newly defined poetics had to run for thousands of miles. Moreover, the sudden dissolution of Hungry Generation movement turns out that palette dry, and the cultural voidance had become merciless. The mainstream Bangla -giants hurried and tried to invade that vacant throne as cultural messiah, as if there was a need of an immediate empire after R.N. Tagore, and hungrialists were eager to touch that throne too. The show must go on ...this literary phrase does not carry any excess weight or a myth today, what actually was carried out by it at the advent of global cultural market.
In addition, everybody knows that market value of bangla book; especially the value of Bengali fiction is still walking backward for the art sake! Searching for the value of eternity, tranquility etc. divine possibilities, writing becomes transparent, smooth like a white virgin page! Nevertheless, show must go on, and who knows when a slow and a steady turtle will bit the rabbit one more time? That day the global cultural history will be goggled off himself like a mischievous postmodern cartoon, or like an endless requiem.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 11 December 2010 )
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