SM Sultan\\\'s dreams remain unfulfilled

JHENIDAH, Aug 11: Famous artist SM Sultan's dreams have not yet been materialised at Masimdia under Narail municipality though he had passed away in 1994.

Sources said the Shilpakala Academy Director General promised in the Sultan festival two years back to build a boat on the model of the preserved boat of SM Sultan and keep it in the nearby river Chitra for merriment of the children and other visitors but it is yet to be materialised.

DG Mr. Liakat also promised on the occasion to establish a new art gallery for keeping the artist's used things.

SM Sultan Memory Museum was restarted in fiscal year 2010-11 with one assistant curator and one gallery guard-cum-gardener with lowly-paid allowances. However, their posts are yet to be made permanent.

Assistant curator Liton Kumar Biswas cannot enjoy holidays as there is no one else to help him in the museum. Moreover, he has to take classes on Fridays in the free art school which is run in the Shishu Swargo of SM Sultan at Masimdia.

Nihar Bala Saha, foster-daughter of SM Sultan told this correspondent that Sultan who liked animals and trees established a zoo and made a garden. He procured different animals and brought various species of trees even from foreign countries so that children could draw pictures seeing the animals and trees before them.

Deputy Commissioner of Narail and President of Sultan complex Abdul Gaffer Khan told the FE that they had written to the Department of Fine Arts for making a concrete ghat up to the Chitra River for the visitors's sitting and extension of picture gallery in Sultan Complex.

Director of Department of Fine Arts Md. Anwar Hossain told the Financial Express that they will take necessary measures after getting estimate of things on the part of Sultan Foundation.

2 held with Phensidyl

UNB report says: Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two people in possession of 70 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from a truck at Gopinathpur village in Sadar upazila in Jhenidah early Sunday.

The arrestees were identified as Tariqul Islam,50, son of Shafiqul Islam, and Aktarul Islam,40, son of Abul Hossain, both residents of Darshana upazila in Chuadanga district.