![]() Seasoned, erudite and ironic, Haq’s poetry reaches across the beauty and devastation of memory progress and ageing death and loss, and the deterioration of people, community and the recognisable ‘home’. Years ago, a friend in Dhaka made clear the severity of the divisiveness concerning identity and affiliation in Bangladesh: ‘If you are wrong, you might get killed.’ In the current context – not the only devastating surge of violence the people of Bangladesh or Haq himself, as a veteran of the Liberation War of 1971, has experienced – this is not an aggrandised statement.ĭespite the blurb of the second edition of Haq’s Pariah & Other Poems (Bengal Lights, 2017) claiming he deals with ‘everyday … social and political problems’, the poet’s own words convince further. With the assassination of writer and publisher Shahzahan Bachchu on June 11, during this year’s Ramadan, Bangladesh is becoming a noticeably volatile place for those who confront, ambiguously or not, the darker strands of tension intersecting the country. The use of ‘potentially’ is deliberate, for it is undoubtedly reductive of Bangladesh’s complexities to characterise a country only through the tragic number of secular writers, publishers, activists and intellectuals murdered in recent times for challenging, in the interpretation of Islamist extremist groups who later claimed responsibility for many of the slayings, certain (conservative) socio-political and religious ideals. Ambiguity is a comparatively safe stance if you happen to be a progressive political-bloc affiliate or a moderate Muslim of the Tagorean cultural set: anything other than ambiguity might potentially imperil your life. She had various roles in well-known TV shows like "Perry Mason" and "77 Sunset Strip.At the close of his poem ‘Autumn Fragment’, Kaiser Haq asks: ‘Can one write / Verse that is free of ambiguity?’ A more pointed consideration for contemporary writers hailing from Bangladesh is whether perhaps one should. Gaye, who played the seductive "Susan," had a lot of TV roles in the 1950s and 1960s but gave up the acting business in 1970. That usually is not a trait of this program. ![]() What happens after that is both good and bad and, sadly, predictable. It's not exactly what Josh was expecting, but she's an eyeful and worth $500, too, so he says, "Okay, let's go." The sheriff warns him she's tough and "it's a three-day trip and anything can happen, especially with her partner on the loose." Josh shrugs, and leaves with her. ![]() She was Thayer's partner in crime, but the latter got away. Instead, a hostile sheriff gives him a beautiful woman, Thayer's partner, "Suan Marno" (Lisa Gaye). Before that, it was rolling along in typical bounty-hunter-story fashion, but it lapsed into horrible clichés that you usually don't see with "Josh Randall) (Steve McQueen.) Josh rides into Payson City on a sweltering summer day, with the aim of picking up "Lance Thayer" for delivery somewhere and a $500 reward. ![]() This started off good but turned out to be kind of a goofy episode, not really up to "Wanted: Dead Or Alive" standards because of the last 10 minutes. ![]()
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