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Thursday, June 17, 2010

ডিস্ট্রিক্ট কাউন্সিল অফ কালচার, কালাহান্ডি : “অল ইন্ডিয়া পেইন্টিং এগজিবিশান অ্যানড ওয়ার্কশপ”

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Title : Innocent Victim

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ডিস্ট্রিক্ট কাউন্সিল অফ কালচার, কালাহান্ডি ও ললিত কলা অ্যাকাডেমি, উড়িষ্যা, যৌথভাবে কালাহান্ডি জ়েলার ভবানিপাটনা শহরে, গত ৩সরা মে থেকে ৯ই মে ২০১০, অনুস্থিত করল অল ইন্ডিয়া পেইন্টিং এগজিবিশান অ্যানড ওয়ার্কশপ

উল্লেখযোগ্য কর্তাদের মধ্যে ছিলেন আর এস গোপালন (আই এ এস, কালেক্টর ও চেয়ারম্যান ডিস্ট্রিক্ট কাউন্সিল অফ কালচার, কালাহান্ডি), জগন্নাথ মহান্তি, (সাব ডিভিশনাল ম্যাজিস্ট্র্যাট), ললিতকলার চেয়ারম্যান দুর্গাপ্রসাদ দাস, অক্ষয় কুমার পট্টনায়ক (কো-অরডিনেটর) পেইন্টার ও মনোজ রাউত স্থানীয় শিল্পী প্রমুখ। প্রায় শতাধিক শিল্পী প্রতিবেশি রাজ্যগুলি থেকে পশ্চিম বংগ, ঝাড়খন্ড, বিহার, দিল্লী ও মূলতঃ উড়িষ্যার শিল্পীরা।

ওয়ার্কশপ চলেছে ৯টা থেকে সন্ধ্যে অবধি ৩,৪,৫,৬,৭ ই মে। প্রতিদিন সন্ধ্যেবেলায় মঞ্চে উড়িষ্যার বিভিন্নপ্রান্তের আদিবাসি গান ও নাচের প্রদর্শনীর ব্যাবস্থা ছিল। অতি চমৎকার সেসব প্রদর্শন। পরিচালনা করেছেন উমেশ চন্দ্র শতপথী তার অপূর্ব সুন্দর গলায়। তিনি ভিমলা কনভেন্ট স্কুলের বর্ষীয়ান শিক্ষক ও স্বনাম ধন্য নাট্যকার। ৭ই মে সন্ধ্যেবেলায় ছিল পুরস্কার বিতরনী অনুষ্ঠান। প্রশাসনের কর্তা ব্যাক্তিরা সামনে থেকে ও ললিত কলার চেয়ারম্যানের হাত দিয়েঅনেক শিল্পীকে নানা সম্মানে ভুষিত করেছেন। নানা শিল্পীর জীবন ও কর্ম জনসমক্ষে তুলে ধরেন। এই কর্মকান্ডের উল্লেখযোগ্য শিল্পীরা ছিলেন অ্যালবার্ট অশোক কলকাতা, তারকশঙ্কর রাঁচি, উজ্জল ঘোষ হাজারিবাগ, উত্তম মল্লিক জামশেদপুর,পাটনা, ও অনেক উড়িষ্যার শিল্পীরা। উল্লেখ্য এই বিশাল শিল্পযজ্ঞে শ্রেষ্ঠত্বের শিরোপা পেলেন কলকাতার অ্যালবার্ট অশোক। তাকে সত্য শিব সুন্দর উপাধিতে ভূষিত করেন।

অ্যালবার্ট অশোক জানান তিনি একটি অ্যাক্রিলিকে ছবি আঁকেন, নাম দেন ইনোসেন্ট ভিক্টিম। ছবিতে দেখান চাঁদনীরাত, চারিদিকে অন্ধকার, দূরে একটি শুকনো পাতাহীন অস্পস্ট গাছ, অন্ধকারের মধ্যে একটি বলির ছাগল একবারে সামনে ছবির একতৃতীয়াংশ জুড়ে ভেসে উঠছে কপালে সিঁদুরের টিপ, গলায় ফুলমালা শুন্য দৃষ্টি, করুণ ভাবে তাকিয়ে আছে। সে নিজেকে বাঁচাবার ক্ষমতা হারিয়ে ফেলেছে, অসহায়।

ইনোসেন্ট ভিক্টিম শুধু বলির ছাগলরাই নয়, সাধারণ মানুষরাও। সাধারন মানুষ অহরহ বলি হচ্ছে ছাগলের মত নানাভাবে, তাদের অসহায় অবস্থা এই সমাজ ও রাস্ট্রের ভাবা উচিত।

উমেশ শতপথি জানান, কালাহান্ডিতে একটা বিশেষ ধর্মীয় অনুষ্ঠানে সমস্ত রাত হাজার হাজার পাঠা বলি হয়। রাস্তায় রক্তনদী বয়ে যায়। প্রশাসনের ও বেসরকারী সেবা প্রতিষ্ঠানগুলি সম্মিলিত প্রচেস্টা করেও এই ছাগল নিধন যজ্ঞ বন্ধ করতে পারেনি। গুরুতর বিষয় ভাবা দরকার।

৫ মে প্রশাসন থেকে অ্যালবার্ট অশোক ও তারকশঙ্করকে স্থানীয় জেলে আমন্ত্রণ করে এক মহোৎ উদ্দেশ্যে নিয়ে গেল, সাথে প্রচার মাধ্যেমের লোকেরা (ই টি ভি)। জেল কর্তৃপক্ষ অপরাধীদের শোধরাবার জন্যে অনেক ব্যাবস্থা নেন, সাংস্কৃতিক কর্মকান্ডের মাধ্যমে অপরাধীদের মন বিশুদ্ধ করতে চান, এছাড়া। জেলে অনেক বন্দি অবসর সময়ে ছবি আঁকেন, ও যারা আঁকাকে বুঝতে চান, শুরু করতে চান তাদের অনুপ্রেরণা ও উদ্ধুদ্ধ করতে অ্যালবার্ট অশোক ও তারকশঙ্করকে বলা হল ছবি এঁকে বন্দিদের কিছু বুঝাতে। একটা দুই আড়াই ক্যানভাসে অ্যালবার্ট অশোক অ্যাক্রিলিকে আঁকলেন ঘরের ভেতর একটা টব খোলা জানলার শিক গলে তার শরীরের অনেকটা অংশ রোদ্দুরের দিকে এগুচ্ছে, তার শরীরে ফুল, কলি ইত্যাদি আর পাঁচটা প্রাকৃতিক গাছের মতোপ্রজাপতি উড়ে এসে তার ফুলে বসছে।

অ্যালবার্ট অশোক বুঝাতে চেয়েছেন বন্দিরা ইচ্ছে করলে জেলের দিন গুলি কাজে লাগিয়ে আবার স্বাভাবিক জীবনে ফিরতে পারেন।

পুরো কর্মকান্ডে জগন্নাথ মহান্তি, (সাব ডিভিশনাল ম্যাজিস্ট্র্যাট), সক্রিয় ভুমিকা আমাদের ঋণী করে রাখে।

সরকারি খরচে কালাহান্ডির বেশ কিছু দর্শণীয় স্থান পরিদর্শন করলাম। খাকসি, জাকুম, করলাপাট স্যাঙ্কচুয়ারি ইত্যাদি---- মনে হল বুভুক্ষু কালাহান্ডি জেগে উঠছে তার আপন ঐতিহ্যে গরবিনী হয়ে।




I am flanked by two fellow painters from other states
I am being awarded at KalaHandi , Odisha,
A painting I had done inside Bhawani patna Jail being invited to demonstrate the inmates of the jail how to paint
The painting I had given to Jail authority as gift

I am and another painter being honoured inside jail by jail super and government of Odisha

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Level of Indian Poverty:Diet of mud and despair in Indian village

I read an alarming news of poverty on bbc . It is a shame to the political leaders lives nearby. The news as below
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8682558.stm

Diet of mud and despair in Indian village

By Chris Morris
BBC News, Ganne, Uttar Pradesh


Two children in Ganne
Children in Ganne have to eat dried mud and silica

"We live on a day-to-day basis," Suraj says, as the faint sound of hammering echoes across the village. "What we earn is what we spend on our families in a day."

In Ganne, just off the main road about an hour south of the city of Allahabad, this is a simple fact of life.

It is home to members of a poor tribal community, who live in small huts clustered around a series of shallow quarries.

Inside one of the huts sits a little girl called Poonam. She is three years old, and in the early stages of kidney failure.

Like many children in Ganne she has become used to eating bits of dried mud and silica, which she finds in the quarry. Tiny children chew on the mud simply because they are hungry - but it is making them ill.

When reports first emerged of children eating mud here local officials delivered more food and warned the villagers not to speak to outsiders. But Poonam's father, Bhulli, is close to despair.

What can we do? We eat the mud from the quarry when we feel hungry
Phulkari
Villager

"What can I say," he shrugs. "We can't afford to eat properly, so how can I afford to buy medicines for her?"

"I am really worried about my daughter, but I don't know what to do next. The poor need the government's help - if we had it, we wouldn't be in such a desperate state."

People like Bhulli and Suraj make their money filling lorries with bits of rock. It takes about eight hours for five men to fill one load. They carry the stones up from the quarry in plastic washing-up bowls balanced on their heads.

One of the women in the village, Phulkari, approaches to tell us about her little boy.

"My son's name is Suraj, and he's started eating mud too," she says. "What can we do? We eat the mud from the quarry when we feel hungry."

"Where do we get the money?" she asks. "We usually eat food only once a day. Last night we went to bed without eating anything at all."

Food protests

The World Bank estimates that one third of all the very poorest people in the world live in India, and stories like those from Ganne have now inspired a national Right To Food campaign.

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There have been protest rallies in the heart of Delhi, as the Indian parliament prepares to debate a new Food Security Bill. It will dictate how many people in the country get access to massively subsidised food grain.

There's no doubt that India should be able to afford to feed its people. But the devil is in the detail.

"It'll only cost the government about 1.2% of GDP to universalize a system of giving food for all, cheap food for all," says Kavitha Srivastava, the national coordinator of the Right to Food campaign.

"They can do it, if they have the political will. It's prioritising - where do you want to put the money?"

"We think it should go in building people's nutrition levels. You can't have a country which is weak, which is hungry, which is anaemic. How can you have a nation like this?"

Now the government seems to be prepared to accept a new way of defining poverty, which will increase the number of people below the poverty line by more than 100 million to about 372 million.

If you simply throw money at this problem...you'll have to throw four times the amount to get the result you want. And the government of India can't afford that.
Dr Kaushik Basu
Finance ministry economic advisor

If international poverty standards were used, the number would be much higher still - and some Indian economists believe it should be.

But whichever figure is used, the poverty line feels like a rather fictitious divide because feeding more than a billion people is a massive logistical exercise. Vast quantities of food provided by the state go missing every day because of corruption and theft.

"Food ought to be a right," says Dr Kaushik Basu, the Chief Economic Advisor at India's Ministry of Finance. "And I believe this is a movement in the correct direction."

"But what worries me at times is that we're being too glib and quick about the delivery mechanism."

Official estimates are that right across the country 75% of subsidised grain does not make it to the intended target in villages like Ganne.

"So if you simply throw money at this problem, you'll have to throw four times the amount to get the result you want," says Dr Basu. "And the government of India can't afford that. The budget will go bust."

In other words, the delivery system needs to be reformed as well - and corrupt local officials need to be taken to task. There is a long way to go.

Daunting challenge

Jean Dreze, a highly respected Belgian-born academic who has worked in India for many years, points out that the current debate is only about the most basic levels of food intake.

A woman at a Fair Price shop
There are fair price shops where people can buy subsidised foodgrain

"For a family of five to have reasonably good nutrition, nothing like meat or fish or any such thing, but just one egg per person per day, one banana, some dhal, some vegetables, a reasonably balanced diet - it would cost more than 200 rupees ($4.4; £3) per family per day," he says.

And that is far more than the amounts being discussed at the moment.

It is a sobering reminder that feeding India is a daunting challenge - the government knows it, and the prime minister says it must be a priority. But the Right to Food Campaign insists they are not doing enough.

The Indian economy continues to grow at impressive speed, and there is no shortage of food in the country. It just isn't reaching the people who need it most, on a consistent basis.

So in Ganne they continue to eat mud. And without finding a solution here in India, the world will come nowhere near the targets it has set itself for reducing global poverty.



Monday, April 12, 2010

A tale of Birds

I have been emotionally charged when I read this story. An Australian friend sent me a few months back







I dont know about animals and birds whether they have emotions like human kind. But tragedy drives me mad.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A National level Art Camp at Dhanbad





A national Art camp organised by Dhanbad based Seven Colours, began on 19 th March ended on 21st March 2010 at Agrasen Bhavan, Hirapur,
Dhanbad. 85 artists, senior and junior from different states joined the Art Camp and painted canvases on their own style and form. The organisers are trying to promote Art among common people in Dhanbad.

In general, interested common people have much curiosity about paintings and painters, such art camp is the opportunity for common viewers to witness how a painter works on his paintings. Every artist has his/her own style and technique to dipict ideas. Viewers can directly interact with artists about art. Art helps society grow with education, art and culture. Besides, for better communication and expression art in form of drawing and painting is indispensable part of our society.

Jharkhand, Dhanbad need such art camp more and more.
A few media document of this art camp given below:






Sahitya Setu and 30th kabi mela



Sahitya Setu a literary Magazine, hosted a 30th annual 'Kabimela' (a big
gathering of poets) on last 14 th march , Sunday, 2010. at Bansberia
Jute Mill, Bandel, Hooghly.

Sahitya setu, a fortnightly literary journal has crossed 43 years of
regular publication. A little magazine survives 43 years with good
reputation and regular basis is a matter of pride.
About 200 hundred poets gathered at the big hall and read their own
poems, discussed on contemporary poetry. A few came from our
neighbouring country Bangladesh.

Sahitya setu also awarded a few new and old poets too.

The editor of this journal is Dr. Jagabandhu Kundu.
contact:
033-26346384
09433503396
sahityasetud@yahoo.com
Below the invitation card:












Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The 28th Agartala Book Fair

The 28th Agartala Book Fair Organised by the Information Cultural Affairs and Tourism (ICAT) Department of Tripura with the cooperation of state publishers, the twelve-day-long fair had been held at the Sishuniketan ( children park) ground of Agartala. It ended on March 11.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar inaugurated the fair in the presence of Assam Sahitya Sabha Padma Shri Rong Bong Terang and Vice-Chancellor of Tripura (Central) University, Arunoday Saha.

Book sellers from Kolkata, Delhi, Bangladesh and others had participated in the 163 stalls of book fair. Booklovers consider the fair to be a golden opportunity. Writers and publishers are also very happy about the fair doing good business.
Everyday, there were cultural ceremonies /seminars/ function in the open air stage. Below a document of a cultural activities, click the bengali image to enlarge



I visited Agartala on this occasion, ( reached 28th feb 10 in the morning flight and returned on 12 march in the evening by flight) and on the 6th march I read my poem among audiences with other poets. I enjoyed the Bookfair with prominent writers, publishers in Agartala, Tripura.


A few writers with me in front of Tripura Government Art College Building














I am with my writers friend at Krishna Nagar, Agartala.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

An art review on prasanto basu



I wrote reviews in periodicals/ magazines. On request to write some reviews I used to visit galleries. This review was published in samakal magazine from barasat

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Reading English Poem


Writing Poem in English was my habit and used to read them in in our poetry reading session at Tamer Lane, Kolkata 700009. A weekly magazine published this incident. The above Picture is a cutting of the news.

In search of painters : An article






This is a cutting of a review on new generation painters. A group of youth held an exhibition at Academy of Fine Art. I wrote the title ' In search of an artis'

Review: Nikhilesh Das



Nikhilesh Das was a prominent and renowned painter. I made a review on him. Darshak literary journal had given me the assignment.

First Bengali Poem : Albert Ashok

Monday, July 13, 2009

My published poems

Looking back my works of Literature

I started writing bengali poems after my english poetry book ' Ravishing Youth 300' published. my friends would express their views in jest that I would return in bengali writing like Michael Madhusudan Datta, the legend in Bengal. M M D is my only inspiration I dreamed in my childhood, I wanted to become a rebel poet like him. I ignored nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore , I dont have explanation why but felt deep to avoid him, and so I did. I loved Nazrul Islam and his songs.. any way
I write in both language Bengali and English, I could not learn Hindi I should have learnt..

all my reviews in periodicals and daily papers were an invasion to correct my wild fancy and construction of poetry.

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My style of children illustration, I did it with freehand computer progamme

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