বাংলা থেকে ইংরেজি, চিলেকোঠার সেপাই: ষষ্ঠ অধ্যায়, আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস | Bangla to English, Rooftop Soldier: Chapter 6 - Akhtaruzzaman Elias

Abstract

Churur Sepuris one of the best Bangla novels seritten by Akhtaruzzaman Elus, It is based on the political and historical consequences of the Agartala's Conspiracy Litigation in 1969. Besides drawing the living picture of pre-seventies' mass agitation in the then East Pakistan, the novel became a clasic narrative of the tradional cultural and socio-economic daily and ocassional life of the Bengali population. The novel reflects on the real 'mass' character of that movement which does not limit itself to a regime change only but seeks to empower the mass people through the radical change of socio-economic structure, The following piece is the English translation of 6" Chapter of the novel, depicting the elaborate the activities and interactions on the Eid Day of the old Dhaka rickshaw service business family incloding the prominent character Khujir, a man from working class. This chapter also recalls the realities of the childhood of Skin-n-Bones Khijir and how his father Fulu miseris attitude and behavior towards him influenced his hite. This chapter is also a high reflection of the novelist's keet surveillance of the Old Dhaka vernacular which heing unique common expression of interpersonal exchange. Despite of existersee of the Mohajan-rental power dynamics of relationships, the enthusiastic tradition based hospitality to everyone around gives the readers the documentary descriptions of the middle class social life of Old Dhaka localitics in that time. We observe here the flashback of the growing days of Khijir a rickshaw puller whose mother and wife both are the kept of his employer. The translation work of Matthew D. Rich feels very close to Akhteruzzaman Elias narrative style and detailing and so apponite for soothing the global readers interests in the masterpiece of the modern Bangala literature of the independent Bangladesh.