Letters to the Editor: An untold love story

An untold love story

Love! Sometimes many people ask me, what is Love? In fact, it may be difficult to express the feelings of love by mouth. Yet as an example of love, let's be a lover like Birikh in the play Birikhar Birina of The Rajmukut Theatre. Birikh's love is an example of how to open his heart, but the one-sided love for him can also be deeply done. Birikh dreams of making Birina his own, goes to see her at the bus stand everyday. But Birina doesn't know that Birikh loves her and Birina's Birikh is an unknown man. Birina's marriage is fixed with someone else. Birikh does not get to tell Birina about his love for her. This is where the real chapter of the story begins. In fact, Birikh is zero without Birina. He will make her his own. What makes Birikh' life dark all of a sudden? How is Birikh jailed as a victim of conspiracy? How does Birina embrace the unrecognized Birikh? In what direction does the playwright take and make Birikh's love a success?

Young playwright Rajdeep's play Birikhar Birina is being staged at Pathsala since August 21. Utpal Das as Birikh and Debashree Gogoi as Birina have done brillant acting.

Sanjib Sagar Das

Bajali

Politics over freebies

Before every election all political parties taking part in the election process try to woo the voters by promising some facilities totally free of cost, like free electricity, free education, health services, water supply etc. They are called freebies and there is an unhealthy competition among the political parties to outdo each other in this regard. Even the SC seems to be helpless to curb this trend. What does it mean? It simply means that even after 75 years of Independence, we the voters are deprived of our basic rights. Political leaders should protect our legitimate rights provided by the Constitution.

Of course, these freebies tax the nation dearly. We all know that only 5 per cent of the nation's population to pay taxes and the rest are all beneficiaries which a nation cannot afford.

Dr Ashim Chowdhury

Guwahati.