Korno

Some of my songs have a story to them. 'Ghor Jeno Hoy Shokkoler' is one of my most favourite songs, but I didn't record it for any of my albums. I played it in a few concerts. But not in the last 8/9 years. I have made so many songs that I don't remember them all. Meanwhile, dementia is taking its toll. A song is never just words or the text. In fact, the music attracts a normal individual more. But of course, the definition of 'normal' can be at variance. The more I listen to the music that is being made and sold the more I doubt if individuals like yours faithfully have even a very small place here in this country or in this state. Going by what goes as 'music' I wonder if I am alive or if I am just a ghost of someone who died many years ago along with people who were not tone-deaf. I have recorded this song for those few people who still care for a song - not just sheer words or the inane sounds made by musically illiterate and uneducated people. I have recorded it for those few who feel more and more cornered in matters of taste and who understand that 'modernism' was not born yesterday but many years ago.

-KabirSuman.

কর্ণ 
 
কারা ফেলে গেছে ওকে 
ফেলে গেছে কর্ণ'কে 
জন্মের খানিকটা পর 
ভোরে হাসপাতালের চত্বর।
 
ময়লার পাশে পড়েছিল 
কাকভোরে কে হদিশ দিল 
মায়ের দেহের তাপ নেই 
তবু সে বাঁচবে বাঁচবেই।
 
এগারো জুলাই এগারোয় 
আরেক মায়ের বুকে শোয়
দু' ঘণ্টা বয়সের ছেলে 
কুন্তী দিয়েছে যাকে ফেলে।
 
কর্ণ আমারি দেওয়া নাম 
জন্ম থেকেই বিধি বাম 
যারা তাকে দত্তক নেবে 
নামটাও পালটিয়ে দেবে।
 
পালটাবি তুই দিনে দিনে 
খেলনার বন্দুক কিনে 
কুরুক্ষেত্র তোড়জোড় 
সেখানেই নিষ্কৃতি তোর।

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