From: Prathiba Sundaram <prathibasam@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:16 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] A rozedar Communist
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| Meghnath Bhattacharya: A rozedar Communist Submitted by admin7 on 6 September 2010 - 4:58pm By Mahtab Alam for TwoCircles.net It was the best Iftar get-together I had ever been a part of, I must confess. The arrangement was such that for a moment, I felt as though I was having Iftar at my own house. He had arranged for delicious stuff (all prepared at home by his life partner, Kanta and other family members), keeping in mind the needs of a Rozedar (a person who observes a fast). Moreover, he had made special arrangements for Maghrib prayer despite being an atheist himself. But Meghnath does not stop here. He observes Roza (fasting) whenever he has to be a part of an Iftar. So that day too, he was fasting. In fact, a few days back when he came for an Iftar at my place, he had observed Roza. "For me, it seems immoral to be a part of an Iftar without fasting," he asserts. This was not the first time he had organized an Iftar at his home. He has been doing it ever since he settled in Ranchi with a discontinuation of four years. And he promises now that he wouldn't discontinue it any cost. Meghnath was introduced to the practice of fasting during Ramdhan, in the last quarter of the seventies during his days at the Jamia Millia Islamia Campus, where he was editing some of his films. "My friends used to invite me for Iftar and it was a new experience for me", he recalls. "But after a few days, I resolved that I would not go for an Iftar unless I observed Roza as well," he adds. When asked if it was a difficult decision, he replied, "Yes, it was. But I also did not want to miss the Iftar get-togethers". And, a practice he started some thirty years back is still observed by him with the same zeal and spirit. Now, after knowing all this about him, if anybody asks me about Meghnath Da, I would say, He is A rozedar Communist. Link: http://www.akhra.in |
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