Speakers at a seminar to mark the 50th death anniversary of poet Farrukh Ahmad at Bangla Academy said that study of Bangladeshi poems was incomplete without poet Farrukh Ahmad.
The seminar titled 鈥楾he way we read poet Farrukh Ahmad鈥� was organised by Bangla Academy on Sunday.
Researcher Kudrat E Huda presented the keynote at the seminar while poet Sohel Hasan Galib and poet Abdul Hye Sikder spoke at the event.
Director general of the academy professor Mohammad Azam presided over the seminar.聽
鈥楢 group of people try to dismiss poet Farrukh Ahmad鈥檚 works as sectarian and reactionary. But most of the Bengali Muslims worked for the 鈥淧akistan movement鈥�. We need to read him historically,鈥� said Kudrat E Huda.
鈥楩arrukh Ahmad used a lot of Urdu, Persian and Arabic words in his poems and the characters of his poem came from myth, folk and our punthi while he did not use the language of the punthi,鈥� said Sohel Hasan Galib.
鈥楩arrukh Ahmad was the follower of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Although he was a follower of the Communist movement and later an Islamist, his language was for humanism,鈥� Abdul Hye Sikder said, adding that Bangla Academy neglected poets Farrukh Ahmad and Al Mahmud.聽聽聽
Mohammad Azam said that Farrukh Ahmad was one of the main poets of Bangladeshi poems.
鈥業n the name of the spirit of liberation war we narrowed our field of studies about politics, philosophy and culture. Study of Bangladeshi poems is incomplete without poet Farrukh Ahmad,鈥� Mohammad Azam said.