বাংলা থেকে ইংরেজি, চিলেকোঠার সেপাই : তৃতীয় অধ্যায়, আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস | Bangla to English, Rooftop Soldier : Chapter 3, Akhtaruzzaman Elias

Abstract

Chilekothar Sepai is one of the best Bangla novels written by Akhtaruzzaman Elias. It is based on the political and historical consequences of the Agartala's Conspiracy Litigation in 1969. The following write up the English translation of 3rd Chapter of the novel, depicting the details psychological journey of Osman through the turbulent happenings during a strong spontaneous strike just prior to the Independence War of Bangladesh. The excellent narration of the novel makes the reader visualize and feel the pre-independence tension hung around in end of nineteen sixties in Dhaka, when the whole then East Pakistan fulminated against the then tyrannies Ayun Khan. The master novelist, Elias, in this chapter, did not leave the socio-religious aspects of Bengali life, such as, after-death ritual, pre-marriage formality, children playing, family life, personal romance and people observing Ramadan days. The chapter portrays the literally agitating socio-political moves -slogans, picketing, whispering, fire, force, fear, the political talks, the talks of the consequences of the movement against the oppressive rulers, anticipation of bringing out Army to cause massacre and so on at every spot of the then Dhaka.