The Importance Of Humanism In India

Once upon a time people on the banks of Torsa looked up to this Ajgar Fakir. Once people leave their land and their village they are not seen to be human. People of other villages think that they are as low as dogs” (129; ch.29). Contrastingly, the narrator has presented the other side too, an image of true humanism in the celebrations of their village festivals like Saraswati Puja and Jamalpur Asthami Mela. There, all the villagers irrespective of status and belief could unite together and share their common human feelings. There seemed no narrowness of sectarianism and regionalism, caste system or class. When the children used to play together, Hindu- Muslim, rich- poor alike, a pure and glittering image of humanism used to move little Daya in her childhood.

It was as if, call of humanism that drew them to listen to those sagas of human life. People used to cry at a song of a minstrel together at the time of political unrest in Bengal’ “I had always hoped, / Oh my country, my mother/That this would be home. /I can not go away, leaving you behind/Oh mother, I will die” (122-23; ch.28). There was a strong ethical and emotional bond among the rural people in Digpait. They imagined a selfless love for their native land as they do feel for their mothers. They were dependent for their survival solely on natural resources and therefore, they thought, as the mother nourishes her children with her milk and care, so does their mother land for them. In point of getting resources from the nature, they felt a common interest of gratitude to their native land. This feeling made them aware of equality, democratic spirit, dignity and