Caged Bard

(for Manoranjan Byapari, a rickshaw puller who writes Bangla novels, stories and autobiography) --Jaydeep Sarangi You may dismiss all I record here Stop! Please don’t ignore them as junk... Here it goes....Hope you hear me.... You will hear me one day, sure! You can never hide your face, Priyotosh. We’ll get you in streets and lanes Of this incredible city of joy. Long struggles demystified Byapari of false tags of the caste-ridden society beauty in the working class, cooperation among the have-nots, humanism among rebels, simplicity among outcastes. Byapari drinks them all..... he salvages various concepts from the hasty derogatory labels of the privileged, and makes the understanding concepts more complete and realistic. We remain as hands folded in inaction; prisoners outside jail. Lectures move electorate in a civil society Justice cries in a caged cell. Byapari writes a new history as Shankha Ghosh recommends his books for Bangla readers, only Hope against Hope. Artists are legislators of the world! let there be enough crackers to celebrate it further under an alien sky. There is hardly anything ‘complete in completeness’. (Shankha Ghosh is a Bengali Indian poet and critic.He released Byapari’s book, “Amanushik” and spoke for Manoranjan Byapari on the 27th August,2013 in an evening gathering in Kolkata)