বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খণ্ড
| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
| প্রবাসে একটি সাংস্কৃতিক কেন্দ্র প্রতিষ্ঠার প্রস্তাব সংবলিত বিচারপতি আবু সাঈদ চৌধুরীর কাছে গণ-সংস্কৃত সংসদের পক্ষে পেশকৃত গোপন প্রতিবেদন | গণ-সংস্কৃতি সংসদের দলিলপত্র | ১৫ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ |
Confidential
Exclusive to Justice A. S. Chowdhury
This note favors the proposition to immediately establish a Bangladesh cultural centre in London. It will be an organisation with a 3 member management committee consisting of:
1. Justice Chowdhury
2. Honorary Director of the centre
3. One representative of the Steering Committee or its successor Committee.
It will be financed by the Steering Committee and other private sources. It has every possibility of being self-sufficient. At the moment one room either at 11. Goring street or in the Bangladesh Mission will house the centre.
The centre will lie headed by the Director. Only one Assistant and a part time Typist - cum-Clerk will be the paid employees. All others will be recruited on the basis of voluntary service.
The general aim of (lie centre is to canyon the freedom struggle of Bangladesh in a different arena with a different kind of weapon. The centre would endeavor to project the cultural basis of our nationalism to show the inevitability of the independence of Bangladesh, to establish and sustain liaison with supporters of Bangladesh among foreign nationals, to project the rich cultural heritage of Bangladesh in order to attract public attention towards the positive aspect and soundness of Bangladesh nationhood, to publish sophisticated literature that would be appreciated by the intelligentsia, to invite eminent citizens of the world to participate in discussions on aspects of Bangladesh, to sponsor- exhibitions of photographs, paintings, films, posters etc. on Bangladesh, to create a library and a documentation centre containing books, journals, newspapers, films, slides, records, maps, charts etc. to work as the research cell for the Bangladesh Mission, Central Action Committee or any other such authority, to arrange for the celebration of the Shahid Day (21st February), Independence Day (20th March), Bengali New Years Day (14th April), Tagore Birth Day (Bill May), Nazrul Birth Day (26th May) and such other national anniversaries in a befitting manner etc.
It is about six months that the Bangladesh Peoples Cultural Society has been actively pursuing a programme on the above line of creating mass awareness among the Bangladesh citizens in U. K. In course of its activities it has derived at collaborating with
