LOTUS Afro-Asian Writings, Quarterly Review of the Permanent Bureau of Afro Asian Writers Association

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Twenty years ago a Movement of Afro-Asian Writers, a development hitherto withont parallel in world cultural history, was started by group of authors representing Afro- Asian literatures, who assembled in the hospitable capital of Soviet Uzbekistan – ancient sind ever youthful Tashkent- in October 1958. Twenty years is a mature age, but also a vantage point giving a good view of future
horizons which lie ahead in the sparkling radiance of a rising dream and making visible far and wide the landscapes of the past – events, destinies, history – which stay behind in the sunset afterglow of memory Well, let’s face it history has not been at all time just or merciful to the East. The land of dawning sunrise where the great miracle giving birth to every new day is accomplished, this land for centuries on end had been suffering woes in the shrouds of impervious night slavery, colonialism and stagnation. The former might the names of scholars-thinkers of great genius, magnificent creations of architects and masterpieces of workers in the art of literary word all had gone under and vanished out of sight beneath the thick overlayer of the dust of centuries, drenched with the blood of serfs and well-rammed by the ruthless colonizer’s boots. All-pervading darkness crept over Asia’s fertile fields settled down on the Euphrates and Kongo, and stole sacred tire from the ancient homelands of human civilization. But then a dny came about its advent is marked off in rel in the calendars of all nations in all continents the day of the Great October Revolution. It awakened and roused to new life popular forces aller ages of slumber. It stirred a sweeping wave of class battles and national liberation movements. With Lenin’s name al their heart and on their lips, working people in Asia and Africa tore apart the chains of colonialism, in Bitter fighting banished foreign imperialism from their lands, drawing as they did so upon the revolutionary experience of the Land of Soviets: laid down the foundations of their national economics, affirmed their sovereign statehood and nation dignity, and revived the cultural heritage of their ancestors.
The victory could not have come about except by rallying together, by opposing he united front of colonialism and neocolonialism and reactionary manoeuvring with he mity and solidarity of peoples – the truth which has since become increasingly evident dav in day out. Who are the, the vehicle to bring it into the masses and lead peoples by the force of their own example? We writers are the conscience of the peoples. We bear responsibility for the destinies not of our contemporaries alone, but of future generations as well…” This was the answer given by progressive men-of-letters from Asia and Africa two decades so as they attended in Tashkent their constituent conference. Their appeal adopted at the time said. “We appeal to you to join us in our forward march in search of truth. beauty and freedom that will allow us to create a literature linked with the life of the people and capable of promoting the people’s struggle for the triumph of reason and justice on Earth.”
Thereby the spirit of Tashkent was born- the spirit of friendship and brotherhood mong progressive writers of the two great continents, the spirit of internationalism and democracy in the literary movement of our time, the spirit of an artist’s dedicated ser vice to the cause of the people and the ideals of freedom, progress and peace. The Tashkent Conference signified a new indeed higher stage in the history of the spiritual cultures generated by each of the Asian and African nations, and a new era in their eternal striving towards each other. A long twenty years. This was a glorious path of struggles and victories.

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