POET SARADAPRASAD KISKU MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE
In the Santal Palli of Mosleha Village of Bankura District
LAKSHIMDRA KUMAR SARKAR
A popular writer in Santali language , a pioneer in anti-witch movement of Purulia and freedom fighter, President Award winner “Ideal Teacher”, who got many prizes, translated Rabindrath’s Gitanjali in Santali language, wrote many books, international human rights protest Amnesty International, People’s Union for Civil Liberty (PUCL), and chairman of Santali Writers Association of Purulia, advisor of many organizations, enterpriser and entrepreuner , social reformer, active member of Indian Language Commission, poet Sarada Prasad Kisku’s name is not unknown to people of Bihar, Bengal ,Orissa. This reputed person died on March 28, 1996 at 11 p.m. while suffering from a heart attack at his Darikadoba village in Purulia.
The sad story is that this talented person with his flair for writing and he took his risk of life for reforming the society through his writing, and he has shown his objectives to the intellectuals in our society. The evaluation of his work still has not been done properly. Had it been done properly, he would have got the Nobel Prize, Magsaysay prize, Indian government’s best prize Bharat Ratna award. Due to the lack of translation, he failed to get the Magsaysay Award. In spite of less work, many high class authors are getting Magsaysay Awards.
In reality, Saradababu was born in Santal society. In that society ,people had the conception that the Santal society or the tribal society has no culture and literature. They are wild people, live in jungles having neither culture or literature.
In spite of this, one class of people is doing research on language , culture, literature, writing books, doing business with their culture. They are so selfish that they are concerned only about themselves. If these people had done something for the upliftment of the culture and literature through cooperation. We do not need to say anything if somebody had taken the initiative.
The two poets who gained reputation at the time of Saradaprasad Kisku are the great poet Sadhu Ramchand Murmu and Scholar Raghunath Murmu. He was a disciple of Sadhu Ramchand Murmu. We were connected with the poet for 16 to 17 years. I was a member in his protest of anti-witch movement. Presently I am trying to start this protest with various types of work for 10 to 12 years through a survey of the tribal society, literature and culture.
If you want to bring the tribals from darkness to light, the primary need is proper education (not only education based on books) and to make the health facilities available in every village. Human development will stop due to lack of spread of education and they will not be free from superstition if the health facilities are not provided to them.
From this firm belief, a library will be set up and the tribals will become educated. They will be identified as a ‘human being’ not as a ‘tribal.’
THE OBJECTIVES OF POET SARADA PRASAD KISKU LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTRE
1. The publicity of Santali language-literature.
2. The evaluation of expired and living poets, writer-artists.
3. The village boys and girls who wander around aimlessly can gather and talk together, creation of character, to make the person aware of the society and his responsibility towards it, to make the person acquaint with it leaving the village and the society, one must be responsible for the society and the country.
4. To show the ways of self-employment.
5. To pay respect to the respected people.
6. To provide training in journalist so that they can do their work on their own.
Other than this, you will get:
The relevant information on the folk culture and tribal culture. Tribal writer, poet, about the writers, journals, books (English, Bengali, Hindi and Santali), the news on tribal news, pictures, other than songs, neighbouring Bengali and Hindi songs, story books, little magazine, the news on developmental work, the directions on how to do developmental work, news on the modern methods of agriculture and necessary information, information on the whereabouts of self-employment, paper clippings on the news of the country, protest on human rights, women protests , information on child labour.
And along with it, all kinds of assistance for the education institutions concerned with tribal and folk culture, field work with individuals and students. The local people are the girls and boys of the region who is going to stay always on our side.
How it was formed:
The Mosleha village is in the number 2 Hirbandh block of Khatra of Bankura district. The Mosleha village is the door to the tribal belt of the South-West corner. He left the job of Aajkaal newspaper on April 1, 1993. He became intimate with the tribals as he started working with the girls and boys of the region.
Fifteen years ago, an organization called South Hirbandh Adibasi Club was set up. This club at Hirbandh block had full of cultural and sports activities. The officials of the club wanted to set up a library. For this reason , Sushila Tudu donated 3 bighas of land for building the club. He wanted to give more lands adjoining it. A wall was constructed for the library. Due to lack of initiative and money, this project was accidentally stopped. The room that was filled with bushes and shrubs for 15 years were cleared for this library. To give enthusiasm, me and my father Manindra Kumar Sarkar’s collection of 2500 books , journals, Santali poet, writer’s picture, book shelves donated a cash of Rs. 15,000, my brother, a national level football player Bratin Sarkar have promised to donate money. At the initial period , sister Kabita have taken a loan of Rs. 3000 from his office. In total, I have started this project with Rs. 70000-75000. Along with it, two typewriters are given. The primary objective is to make them self-employed and teach them without taking any tuition fees. The typewriters were purchased by Kabita’s brother, Bratin. The villagers are working as labourers helping us construct the room. They are also collecting money. Those who cannot give 1 rupee for fund raising, they are generous enough to give some rice grains. But the requirement is Rs. 60000 to Rs. 70000. Books and journals.
APPEAL TO THE COUNTRYMEN:
I appeal to the countrymen for financial support to the wellwishers of the country, writer, poet, organization, and political parties . I hope that we can build up this structure provided you give enough financial support.
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