Sunday 6 December 2020

How to increase communal harmony

A translation of a poem by the great Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Thought provoking and relevant.

I have recovered from my addiction to the opium of religion

I have given up my priesthood

I have destroyed temples, mosques and churches

And I sing the song of universal unity

We are all the same

So why bow to the divisive shrieks from the places of worship?