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September 02, 2020

Memorable MOMENT Making memorable moments for yourself is not a big thing. But, You being the key Person in others Memorable Moment is an everlasting thing.

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Madusudhan Dutta - the giant poet and his MeghnadBadh Kabya

January 25, 2021

Today is the birth anniversary of this great Bengal renaissance poet Modhusudhan Dutta and the father of Bengali modern poetry. Michel Modhusudan Dutta(1824-1873) and his immortal book of poetry 'Meghnadbadh' (1861) are always breathed together .Retelling the epic through a modern ballad and is one of the renaissance tradition challenging the myth and a section of the poem we are reading in school text book for generations. Meghnad was a tragic hero in Ramayana. He was slayed by Lakshmana brutally, while he was worshiping Goddess Nikumvilā, in the royal temple of Lanka, because of betrayal by Vibhishana, who was an uncle of Meghnad. Meghnad asked Lakshmana not to fight with an unarmed person, rebuking him as a coward; but Lakshmana did not hear him. This unfortunate hero twice endangered Rama as well as Lakshmana but could not survive himself in this unfair battle. This is the central theme of this epic. Meghnad was a patriot, a loving husband, a cari...

Bhoot Chaturdashi - the eastern rituals

November 13, 2020

History and evolution of mankind often throw interesting facts that time has the tenacity to add various ritual of different times and all the practices gets into the multiple narratives of the same pagan festivity. On the day preceding the Amabashya night falls the Chaturdashi (14th day) of the Krishna Paksha in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar month of Kartika and this festivity is celebrated all through the eastern provinces of South Asia - the Hindu families pay obeisance to their ancestors and Bengali Hindus observe the day as Bhut Chaturdashi. When we were kids, we heard from the elders that ghosts become active on this night - the night preceding the day of Amavasya ( preceding day of the no-moon night). So all homes have to light ritualistic fourteen lamps and place it on the key passages of our home, the doors, the windows, especially the main entrance door. And the ancillary ritual of mandatory cooki...

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A boyhood Memoir : My Choto Pishe

October 26, 2021

An extract from My Choto Pishe : A boyhood memoir - Goutam Moitra It’s a song that is lost in the winds of the earth. But the winds still carry a few reveries of that journey. He swam in the lake in the odd mornings of summer and a few times I was lucky to accompany him. He swam with ease while I struggled with my strokes. One time, I was on the brink of being drowned. That saviour hand stretched to get a hold of me in that moment. But his face would not make you feel that it could turn so serious with the deep waters welcoming me into their womb. On school holidays, we would visit his house so often. His house that was just a quick stroll away on a route and in those days people loved to stroll through it. And if it was a morning, a barber would be sitting with his tools on call in the visitor’s room attending to him , as he leisurely lay down. In those days, children were often rebuked for listening to Radio-stations airing an...

Book Review: Floating Towel and a Dozen Stories

November 26, 2021

Voices of socially disempowered hegemonic positions Gautam Maitra, a bilingual writer is a prolific storyteller in weaving stories that are a kaleidoscope to life with objective experiences only to give us a myriad vision of the Indianness that strives for existence. Set in the turmoils of South Asia, Floating Towel and a dozen Short Stories visualizes the trajectory of family relationships, disenchantment, violence, greed, the changing lifetimes and abject senselessness of fanaticism. It is a fabric of a middle-class person namely Budhu, an archetype, an epitome of normalcy – a person so deeply rooted in the attitudes, customs and feelings of a native Bengali middle-class man that it could essentially be an alter-ego of any Indian Joe. Maitra’s Floating Towel and a dozen Short Stories, a compilation of various short stories that were written across the span of two decades, is divided into twelve chapters with the life and times of the protagonist Budhu in the depiction of existential ...

Madusudhan Dutta - the giant poet and his MeghnadBadh Kabya

January 25, 2021

Today is the birth anniversary of this great Bengal renaissance poet Modhusudhan Dutta and the father of Bengali modern poetry. Michel Modhusudan Dutta(1824-1873) and his immortal book of poetry 'Meghnadbadh' (1861) are always breathed together .Retelling the epic through a modern ballad and is one of the renaissance tradition challenging the myth and a section of the poem we are reading in school text book for generations. Meghnad was a tragic hero in Ramayana. He was slayed by Lakshmana brutally, while he was worshiping Goddess Nikumvilā, in the royal temple of Lanka, because of betrayal by Vibhishana, who was an uncle of Meghnad. Meghnad asked Lakshmana not to fight with an unarmed person, rebuking him as a coward; but Lakshmana did not hear him. This unfortunate hero twice endangered Rama as well as Lakshmana but could not survive himself in this unfair battle. This is the central theme of this epic. Meghnad was a patriot, a loving husband, a cari...

DHAK by Durga Bhattacharya

October 20, 2020

https://youtu.be/TlSD2OAbnfQ Come Durga Pujo, Dhaki cannot be far behind. The Dhakis are so intermingled with the blood and sweat of Dugga Pujo craving race, it is often difficult to separate them and keep our focus on DHAK and DHAKI alone. Here is a rare piece in the domain of DHAKIs, written by late Durga Bhattacharya. Whether it rains or not,will never miss the sound of DHAK, even if one hesitant to go for pandal hopping in the pandemic. https://youtu.be/TlSD2OAbnfQ #DHAK #Durga #DHAKI #Bengal

Introduction of Book 'Floating Towel and a Dozen Short Stories'

September 25, 2020

Sunderban Delta Short Story Series Copyright © 2019 Gautam Maitra Cover Design and Illustration © Jayanti CONTENTS Foreword I Introduction iii 1 Floating Towel Pg 1 2 The Two Strings Pg 8 3 Question Paper Pg 16 4 A Date with the Lost World Pg 20 5 A Bizarre Talking Competition Pg 32 6 The Land of the Blue River Pg 41 7 The Search for Oasis Pg 45 8 Reflections Pg 54 ...