BY TC News Desk
Agartala, 22nd June 2025:A wave of anger and condemnation continues to spread following the June 8 attack on the ancestral home of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Sirajganj district of Bangladesh. The silence of the country’s interim government has drawn sharp criticism from across the globe, including from leading intellectual and journalistic circles in Tripura.
In response to the incident, the Assembly of Journalists organized a protest meeting today in front of Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan here. Journalists, poets and cultural personalities gathered to voice their outrage against what they termed an assault not just on property but on the collective heritage of Bengali people.
Speaking at the protest, Subal Kumar Dey, editor of Syandan Patrika and head of Syandan TV said, “Today, those with weapons hold power. The global leadership necessary to uphold humanity is absent. Superpowers like the US and Russia are selling arms, yet they remain silent on attacks like the one on Tagore’s home. But history shows that no tyrant lasts forever.”
Pranab Sarkar, president of the Agartala Press Club condemned those who once labeled Tagore a bourgeois figure. “Those who broke Tagore’s statue have shattered the hearts of every Bengali. The pain is collective,” he said. Sarkar also questioned the legitimacy of the Bangladesh government’s silence, accusing it of ignoring its own foundational figures, including Kazi Nazrul Islam, Sukanta Bhattacharya and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Also present at the meeting were senior journalists Sanit Debroy, Biswendu Bhattacharjee and Ranjit Debbarma alongside poets and writers, who demanded accountability and urgent action against the perpetrators.
