The popular Indian singer and song-writer Kabir Suman has expressed his deep condemnation on the verdict of Felani murder by the Indian Border Security Force through his latest song titled Felani Khatun, which is posted on the singer’s personal website.
The song talks about how Felani lay dead hanging on the barbed-wire at the borders of Bangladesh and India. In the song Suman addresses the Indians and the BSF to listen to the mild singing tunes in the wind carried from the wires left by the sweet singing girl Felani.
The singer leaves an open question on Felani’s behalf in the last two lines of the first stanza asking Guli kheye jhule thakle felani/Boloto dosh ta kar (Hit by the bullet, you are now hanging on the barbed wire/Tell me whose fault is it).
The witty singer Suman, who has attained huge popularity for his bold stance against injustice through music, criticises the judgment by rendering Keu doshi noy felani khatun bsf-e jaane theek/Path bhool korey niye chhilo guli hothat tomar deek (Nobody is guilty, Felani, the BSF knows it right; it’s only the bullet that chose to head your way).
Kabir Sumon, being a Trinamool Congress lawmaker, compares the innocent girl Felani to a bird, plays with the words and satirises the notorious activities of the BSF rendering in the song that the BSF would even kill a bird on the wire as it too does not have the visa to cross border.
The verdict given from Indian special court has enraged many in both Bangladesh and India. It acquitted the main accused BSF constable Omiyo Ghosh, who had aimed open fire at the Bangladeshi teenage Felani Khatun when she was crossing the border into Bangladesh over barbed-wire fences through the Phulbari frontiers in Dinajpur on January 7, 2011. As a result people from all walks of life have protested against the verdict from their individual places.
Earlier, Kabir Suman released several songs on his website highlighting and appreciating youth movements like Shahbagh protest demanding the capital punishment of the war criminals.
-With New Age input
