Here is the link to get my CRY fellowship paper :
http://www.cry.org/resources/pdf/Dripta%20Piplai_2007_NCRF_CRY.pdf
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Re-reading Herbert, thanks to Suman Mukhopadhyay..
Remembering the time when I first read Herbert, a few years back.re-reading the book on screen helped me to look back at the words, at the time, at our past too. When I had heard about the film while studying at Delhi,I didn't know that it was banned it west Bengal by the government.
But how can we interpret 'Herbert' now? Pointing out the fact that in Bengal not necessarily the 'cream students' are/were associated with the third-stream communist movement was, perhaps not pointed out like this before Herbert in contemporary Bangla literature. It is unfortunate that the contemporary 'heroes' of Bangla literature didn't write any 'revolutionary' criticism of the text (at least we didn't get that in Delhi. who knows about Patiram there?)
Though the film was not for all, aptly the story tells that 1. the ghost of 70s is still there in the mahole of IPS zone 2. 'Duniya knapano dosh din' was not a prescription for B.E. college hostel but also for x, y or z 3. the intellectual state still has the tradition of getting job or getting admission through specific office rooms 4. Is there really any difference between Theosophy and Communist manifesto? 5. finally the realization 'explosion can happen anywhere, by anybody and at any time' is to be followed by the state as a Bible-statement
the architecture and Bangla accent of North Calcutta strengthened the smartness of the making, also the collage where we constantly see Lalit kumar with his camera. Probably after few more years we'll forget about kite-flying, gangajaler tank, chilekotha..we'll also forget people like Binu...
We would like to hear more about such fuzzy identities perhaps, while our own identities are in a crisis, which is increasing everyday. We may discover more Herberts next door, or may be inside ourselves, who knows?
Remembering the time when I first read Herbert, a few years back.re-reading the book on screen helped me to look back at the words, at the time, at our past too. When I had heard about the film while studying at Delhi,I didn't know that it was banned it west Bengal by the government.
But how can we interpret 'Herbert' now? Pointing out the fact that in Bengal not necessarily the 'cream students' are/were associated with the third-stream communist movement was, perhaps not pointed out like this before Herbert in contemporary Bangla literature. It is unfortunate that the contemporary 'heroes' of Bangla literature didn't write any 'revolutionary' criticism of the text (at least we didn't get that in Delhi. who knows about Patiram there?)
Though the film was not for all, aptly the story tells that 1. the ghost of 70s is still there in the mahole of IPS zone 2. 'Duniya knapano dosh din' was not a prescription for B.E. college hostel but also for x, y or z 3. the intellectual state still has the tradition of getting job or getting admission through specific office rooms 4. Is there really any difference between Theosophy and Communist manifesto? 5. finally the realization 'explosion can happen anywhere, by anybody and at any time' is to be followed by the state as a Bible-statement
the architecture and Bangla accent of North Calcutta strengthened the smartness of the making, also the collage where we constantly see Lalit kumar with his camera. Probably after few more years we'll forget about kite-flying, gangajaler tank, chilekotha..we'll also forget people like Binu...
We would like to hear more about such fuzzy identities perhaps, while our own identities are in a crisis, which is increasing everyday. We may discover more Herberts next door, or may be inside ourselves, who knows?
Friday, September 19, 2008
'Ebar bujhi bholar bela holo...'
The icon of Rabindrasangeet (and now I am proud to say that my Guru) Suchitra Mirta is celebrating her 85th birthday today.At midnight a Calcutta-based news channel telecasted a special programme on her where the interviewer seemed to memorize the important dates of the singer's life probably 20 minutes before the interview.
It forced me to think certain questions.Are we, the fans of Suchitra Mitra disappearing? Are we forgetting the black and white photographs of IPTA?
...since morning I was recalling the tunes. recalling the lines 'gan diye je tomay khnuji.'On 24th August, 1996 at Rabindrasadan at a programme of Rabitirtha I got a few lines written by her. The interpretation of Rabindrasangeet by her, the visuals of tunes was perhaps the key of my understanding of the bani of Tagore songs.
This sunday I'll be one of the singers at this years' Rabitirtha programme at Rabindrasadan.how can I interpret the lines now after 12 years? the person who helped many of us to rethink and reinterpret Tagore songs, can we proceed to be a follower of her at all?
The icon of Rabindrasangeet (and now I am proud to say that my Guru) Suchitra Mirta is celebrating her 85th birthday today.At midnight a Calcutta-based news channel telecasted a special programme on her where the interviewer seemed to memorize the important dates of the singer's life probably 20 minutes before the interview.
It forced me to think certain questions.Are we, the fans of Suchitra Mitra disappearing? Are we forgetting the black and white photographs of IPTA?
...since morning I was recalling the tunes. recalling the lines 'gan diye je tomay khnuji.'On 24th August, 1996 at Rabindrasadan at a programme of Rabitirtha I got a few lines written by her. The interpretation of Rabindrasangeet by her, the visuals of tunes was perhaps the key of my understanding of the bani of Tagore songs.
This sunday I'll be one of the singers at this years' Rabitirtha programme at Rabindrasadan.how can I interpret the lines now after 12 years? the person who helped many of us to rethink and reinterpret Tagore songs, can we proceed to be a follower of her at all?
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Fire asa
onek din por abar ekhane fire asha. ekhono campus-e boshonto ashe ni. tobu shei holud fuler gachh-tay onek phul dhorechhe, hoyto ba amar jonyoi...
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