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

From: sujit kumar banerjee <sujit2353@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."

  

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