Singapore Writer's Festival,Nov'15 : A Canvas for Unfulfilled Dreams.

Rarely does life present before us such cosmic events when our fiercely guarded and nurtured dreams are presented before the World and we stand in awe of the birth of our dream-child.Today the Singapore Writers Festival in collaboration with the prestigious bengali newspaper Banglar Kantha came together to give a voice to the unheard,unrecognized servitude milleu of migrant workers who on other days of the week are nothing more than just another face in the crowd.Today this amalgamated mass of people stood out individually as they put forward before the hierarchical world their unbroken dreams,aspirations and desires.

As the room filled up with Singaporean,Indian,Tamilian,Malay communities...the message was clear.That its not just the Bangladeshi community but people all over the world who feel as outcasts in a foreign country.They have various unseen catlysts contributing to this migration yet the end result remains the same- that in this vogaye that the migrants have undertaken to find a destination,they are all the same.Here they are all people who are a part of the crowd but each wounded with their own suffering,hopelessness,void and a multitude of unuttered battles that have led them to this place.

What Banglar Kantha has done is given these people a shred of dignity,self esteem and value for their struggles which would otherwise have gone unnoticed and untraced through the effigies of time.The newspaper owner Mr.AKM Mohsin has battled relentlessly for the migrant cause since 2006 and is still an avid propagator for the cause.Today as he sat on the prestigious seat of the Guest Speaker for the migrant worker along with other luminious dignitaries like Mr.Shivaji Das and poet Alvin Panh,what you would notice about him is not a man who has reached his destination,but a warrior who is only on a brief,momentary rest till he adorns his battle armor and stands valiantly in the battlefield,steady and strong,to fight for them who have forgotten to fight for themselves.