2005 was the International Year of Physics. This was celebrated by remembering the completion of 100 year of the publication of Einstein’s three revolutionary articles. From Bangladesh I wrote an essay focusing on the humanitarian side of this great scientist. Now I would like to say some words about my experience about that writing.
My writing was published in a bangle daily named Prothom-alo on 9th October 2005 http://www.prothom-alo.net/v1/newhtmlnews1/feature.php?CategoryID=16&Date=2005-10-09 and I won prize for that essay. But when I wrote that essay I found that with all my efforts I couldn’t express my personal feelings about this man. If you respect someone, and admire him with all your heart then you might not able to show an impartial judgment to him. There is nobody who never committed any mistake in his or her life, but if you want to write only the humanitarian side of the scientist like Einstein then you have to find all the good things about his life. So, I decided not to write in that way. I wanted to write what was the fact and when I went over my writing I rediscovered that Albert Einstein was an exceptional man. Then I found why writing is called an exploration. My neutral view was abolished and I turned myself as a fan of that great soul.
The second thing about my writing experience is that it is very difficult to say some progressive words in a religious society like Bangladesh. Einstein was an atheist person, but by saying that you can’t prove that he had a progressive mind. All he said through his various writings was published in a book named “Ideas and Opinions”. That book’s article had been written by Einstein for various occasions for the later years of his life and his impression about the society was changing over time. So, I had to find what his last impression about some matters was and try to guess why he changed his opinions during those years of his life. That was a bit difficult and time consuming.
Some of his concept confused me. Sometime he said like an atheist person and sometime he pretended himself as a religious man. Then, I tried to grasp what is the answer of this contradiction and after having much trouble I finally found that by saying “religion” he meant his respect to the ever lasting struggle of man to understand the world around him. He respected man not the God and that was his mutual obligation to the society. Then I tried to find out if this was the reason he loved socialism so much?
After finding that as positive, I wanted to focus on what might be his opinion about our present world. Then I discover the marvelous discovery that, he thought that there is an exaggerated competitive attitude in the minds of the young people and that’s why young people always worship their acquisitive success in their academic career and always think that those results might give them the necessary preparation for their future career. He thought that this is a wrong idea and it kills thinking ability of man.
By working on this scholar I found myself that my impression to this world has been gradually changed and the world as I saw earlier was not as simple as I thought. This was my biggest experience about that writing. It changed my views towards the world.
