Muktibodh cannot be loved perhaps, he can only be feared, but we aren’t capable of either. He is a myth, choosing to be lost in the realms of things misunderstood and forgotten. Rajit Roy
“मेरी आपकी कमजोरियों के स्याह लोहे का जिरहबख्तर पहन, खूँख्वार हाँ खूँख्वार आलीजाह, वो आँखें सचाई की निकाले डालता, सब बस्तियाँ दिल की उजाड़े डालता करता हमें वह घेर बेबुनियाद, बेसिर-पैर... हम सब कैद हैं उसके चमकते तामझाम में शाही मुकाम में !!” These lines speak of a tragedy of human sensibility, a corruption of our conscience. Muktibodh was a rebel in poetry. His words didn’t speak for a revolution, his verses were not Marxist or ideological otherwise, he only spoke for the human soul- one that was denied a voice in the counterproductive, materialistic culture. He titled his poem “Bhool Galti”, calling out to man’s flawed reason. Nevertheless, he was an anarchist, a symbol of revolt, but in his own lifetime he was just a poet everyone feared to read, lest to understand. Reading Muktibodh is tough, really. He is outspoken, a tad too much, but he is a bearer of truth. Like the Brahmrakshas in his celebrated epic, Muktibodh lies there unnoticed. The ruins of human principles, of rationality and reason, surround his presence. The waters are too deep to gaze into, as he writes in his poem; and as it goes- the words seem puzzling, yet there is a certain profundity that seems appealing. His territories are dark, but isn’t darkness honest too? The smoke of his bidi is suffocating our sense of honor, of our shallow pride and we breathe in the air of mutiny. It shall liberate us though. “तुम्हारी प्रेरणाओं से मेरी प्रेरणा इतनी भिन्न है कि जो तुम्हारे लिए विष है, मेरे लिए अन्न है।“ (Your poison is my fodder, I am so distant!) Muktibodh cannot be loved perhaps, he can only be feared, but we aren’t capable of either. He is a myth, choosing to be lost in the realms of things misunderstood and forgotten.
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