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788 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ভারতস্থ বাংলাদেশ হাইকমিশনার কর্তৃক একটি পররাষ্ট্র মন্ত্রণালয় ১৪ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ চিত্রপ্রদর্শনী উদ্বোধনকালে প্রদত্ত বক্তব্য বাংলাদেশ প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তি BANGLADESH PRESS RELEASE গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ মিশন ৯, সার্কাস এভিনিউ কলিকাতা-১৭ (May be reproduced with or without Acknowledgement) NO. PR/49. September 14, 1971. M. HOSSAIN ALI INAUGURATES EXHIBITION OF SKETCHES "I must compliment Mr. Subal Paul for arranging this timely exhibition which I am sure will go a long way in bringing out vividly the price in blood the people of Bangladesh are paying everyday to achieve independence for themselves" says Mr. M. Hossain Ali, High Commissioner for Bangladesh in India. Mr. Hossain Ali was inaugurating the Exhibition of Sketches by Mr. Subal Paul at the Academy of Fine Arts on September 14, 1971. As regards art and Mr. Subal Paul's paintings, Mr. Hossain Ali says even though critics may argue that art does not produce anything of strictly utilitarian character, it is, and has always been an indispensable need of humanity and also indispensable to civilization. It reflects the whole manner of a nation or a given period. The powerful strokes of brush in the dexterous hands of Mr. Subal Paul has precisely tried to achieve this in the context of what is happening today in Bangladesh. It is said that one of the main purpose of art is to give pleasure and to create beauty and in this Nature is the artist's inexhaustible source of inspiration. If that be so, then the paintings that we see before us would be a great disappointment to many, for the paintings of Pual are not more outlines indicating a shape or a beautiful landscape, but a successful attempt at capturing the agonies of a nation of seventy five million people caught in ruthless war thrust upon them by an alien army of occupation. And his paintings assume added significance because in portraying the happenings in Bangladesh, he does so, as he describes it himself so aptly, to register his protest as a painter. Regarding the freedom struggle in Bangladesh the High Commissioner says by now, you and for that matter the civilized world, are aware of what happened and is still happening in Bangladesh. I would not repeat them here as to how it came to pass that a nation comprising a sizeable section of humanity became the victim of worst kind of brutalities in the hands of a military junta. The story is too familiar; the worm is aware of