Shakor Kade Jolkonar Junne

In the Shakor Kade Jolkonar Junne, a poetry book, consisting of 56 poems, Poet Altamas Pasha, through his extraordinary poetic language tries to draw a picture of the entire human race which starts from the search for freedom of Mankind from social injustice and social inequality to social tranquillity. This excellent book travels through different emotive stages of human feelings. The poetry book is not only about feelings but environment, leadership, hope, deprivation, social change, civilization, patriotism, gender, values, discrimination, death, life, peace and the traditional love. 

What is most intriguing about the poetry book is that it goes beyond the traditional love issues and penetrates deep into the human nature and the society.
Each poem has a unique theme which very much reflects contemporary society in which we live. 

In order to understand the poems, I felt the need to know the Poet better. This brought me to have several informal meetings with the author himself.

From the interviews held, I could understand that the author thinks not only about the distribution of resources in this world but how to integrate religion, people, race and time without compromising the qualities of human mankind. 

The astonishing book starts with a poem that is advocating the need for the resurgence of a leader that once took us to the promised land and whose name will be written in the horizon of the flag. The poem boldly talks about betrayal and hope. 

In his other poem Nurjahan,(page 10), the poet poetically describes the dark side of human nature where Nurjahan, a young girl was forced into a marriage to a man much older in age. In search of love, she fell in love with a local boy and had to pay a price. The poet describes the price that if one reads the poem will bring shivers down the spine. The poem is focused on a true story.

In another poem: The Demise of Civilization, (page 7), Pasha describes how the Darkness announces the dawn of Civilization, a masterpiece in its own rights.

In page 8, in the poem Race, talks about discrimination based on the colour of skin and lastly says, what is all the fuss about? White or black is not the issue. We are human beings by identity.

But the picture in the cover page of the book does not really reflect the true Richness of the poetic language and the serious social themes covered in the book.
Those who care for the society, are troubled with the contemporary events in the society and wish somebody took a pen and started writing, this is: The book.

10th August 2019
(Dr Arbab Akanda, a London born, HR professional, is a social researcher and academician.)