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In the Market of Blinds

Sarwar Kamal ও মন আমার দেখে শুনে জ্ঞান হলো না । আমি কি করিতে কি করিলাম আমার দুগ্ধেতে মিশিল চোনা   Though I have been around, my darkness didn’t lift. I did just the opposite of what I meant to do. I spoiled my milk with cow piss. [1]   Darkness, despite of our experience of the things, can’t be eliminated for fallacy of observation. As Lalon’s song depicts, a parable of ‘Touching an elephant by the blinds’ was in our school text expositing incompleteness of individual’s perception, which still we can ruminate. That ‘touching an elephant by the blinds’ situation, to infer different conclusions, may occur at any stage of our perception of the things; even for the finest researcher it’s quite normal to suffer such an epistemic predicament when he can’t see the things from all sides. So, seeing the full picture is an important precondition to have mastery over the affairs one speaks of, which precedes suggesting what to do or not to do, and for...