There is no beauty truer than the beauty of God in the universe that lives within our souls. Baul songs are of joy and love and their longing for mystical union with the divine within. The songs of the Bauls contain an extensive meaningful philosophy that connects to all their life and aspirations.
Although some researchers have termed Radaromon as 'the father of Dhamail songs and a poet of Vaishnab tradition’, many scholars have also given him the recognition as a ‘Baul’. This controversy, however, gets resolved when we see Radaromon calling himself as a ‘Baul’ in many of his songs. Radaromon in his Baul songs expresses his consecrated love and passion for Radha’s estrangement from her lover, which is simply unparallel in Vaishnab literature.
Radaromon/রাধারমন, the second book of the series entitled ‘Bangla Bauls’ contains the English translation of fifty selected songs.
This volume has been prepared to focus on and practice of our own creative culture and to let our Bangali ideas, philosophy, folklore and imagery be known to the dominating colonial/neo-colonial Center. Therefore, efforts have been made to translate some selected songs of Radaromon from Bangla language into English language used here as a medium of expression and a response to thwart the cultural and intellectual supremacy of the Center.
Haroonuzzaman, a translator, novelist, poet and essayist, was born in Dhaka on January 13, 1951. He has been into teaching at home and abroad (Libya, Qatar) for about 27 years. For the past 12 years, he has been teaching English at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). Besides, he had been a feature writer of Depthnews, Manila and into English language journalism at The Independent and UNB and into broadcast journalism in Radio Pakistan, Dacca and Bangladesh Betar, Dhaka for about six years. He was the only Asian who worked as an English news broadcaster under Qatar Broadcasting Service in 1992.
His notable publications include: Lalon লালন, Radharomon রাধারমন, Hason Raja nvQb ivRv, The Treasure-trove of Children Stories (translations), The Distant Shore, Inseparable and Juddoh (novellas).
