How long will you while away time blinking
Your eyes? Know that the path that began
In Jalianwallah Bagh is where you will find me.
Then follow the path to Jalalabad
And pass through Dharmatala- and you will see
The address you seek is on every doorway
Carved in letters of blood in this beleaguered Land.
Farewell, my friend! Farewell today-
Behold yonder there arises the impending storm-
The address you seek is now free for the taking
Meet me in the homeland of Freedom.
Comments: The poem is self-explanatory. It speaks of an idealist participating through local and global contexts in grassroots movements aimed at the struggles against and overthrow of imperial and feudal structures that oppress and marginalize vast numbers of people via economic and racial deprivation and discrimination. Specifically, Sukanta refers to notable grassroots leftist movements around the world, including those in Russia (the Bolshevik and October revolutions), China (establishment of the Republic of China prior to the Maoist revolution much later), Yugoslavia (establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) and Indonesia (the Indonesian National Revolution against Dutch colonialism). Sukanta also makes strong references to several revolutionary events in India, including the Jallianwallah Bagh (or Amritsar) massacre in 1919, and the Jalalabad armed resistance under Surya Sen in Chittagong in modern Bangladesh.
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