Representatives of Bharat Sevashram Sangha from Kolkata will perform a Kirtan evening on Friday, September 17, 2010 at 7:00 in the evening at T T Nagar Bengali Association’s Kali Bari premises.
Bharat Sevashram Sangha is a philanthropic and charitable organization with a firm and enduring commitment to improving the lives of the underprivileged. This guiding principle of concern for the weak and deprived citizens has been the force empowering our members to dedicate their lives to serving humanity.
Bharat Sevashram Sangha is a vast network of volunteers across the globe dedicated to helping people in distress. The Sangha's social welfare activities include disaster relief, spreading education, providing healthcare facilities, vocational training and upliftment of the tribal.
T T Nagar Bengali Association have requested to all devotees to participate on a large basis to make this event successful.
MADHURA GOT NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP 2010
Madhura Chattopadhyay, daughter of Mr. Indranil Chattopadhyay, a residence of BHEL, Bhopal area has bagged the prestigious CCRT Scholarship in Classical Dance category for the year 2010. She has an outstanding mark in BHARATANATYAM.
The Cultural Talent Search Scholarship Scheme aims at providing facilities to outstanding young children to develop their talents in various artistic fields. Children in the age group of 10 to 14 years studying either in recognized schools or belonging to families practicing traditional art forms are eligible for the scholarship.
In 1982, the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) took over the Cultural Talent Search Scholarship Scheme from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India in which initially 100 talented students in the field of arts and crafts were identified from all parts of the country and provided with scholarship. Considering the vastness of this country and the talent that is available, the scholarship was increased from 100 to 300 each year from 1984.
The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) provides 500 new scholarships each year, out of which minimum 5 seats each are reserved for all the states and at least 3 each for all the Union Territories. Minimum 10 scholarships are reserved for the state of Jammu and Kashmir also. While awarding scholarships preferences are given to children of families practicing traditional art forms. Special emphasis is given to rare arts and crafts which are becoming extinct..
BASIS OF SELECTION
Children in the age group of 10-14 years studying either in recognized schools or belonging to families practicing traditional, performing and other arts are chosen for the scholarship. The outstanding children in various cultural fields such as traditional forms of music, dance, drama as well as painting, sculpture and crafts are selected for the award of scholarships. Special emphasis is given to rare art forms, which are in the process of becoming extinct.
We wish her all the best !!
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LISTEN TO SWAPAN BASU THIS DURGA PUJA
Noted Bengali folk singer Swapan Basu would perform a musical note on October 12, 2010 in BHEL Durga Puja Celebration.
Listening to Swapan Basu's song is an experience. He is not merely a folk singer but an Ethno-musicologist and folk song interpreter. He has travelled to remote villages of India to collect songs from different ethnic groups and tribals. He has inhaled their language, pronunciation and melody. The government of India has acknowledged his contribution and awarded him the National Scholarship in folk music from Ministry of Education in 1981; The Research Fellowship in Ethno-musicology from Anthropological Survey of India in 1984; and the National Fellowship as an outstanding performer in the performing arts from Human Resource Development of India, in 1987.
Far from the madding crowd into the openness of nature the name of Swapan Basu becomes almost synonymous with the idyllic folk tunes of eastern India. An icon in the fields of folk music, Swapan Basu has become a name by him and is held solely responsible for making the vivacious folk tunes of rural India touch a million hearts of the urban India and far abroad crossing the bar of international barriers and manmade restrictions. A masters from the Rabindra Bharati University in the vocal folk music in 1984, he began his career much earlier to that and since then has been charming his listeners with the vibrant, melodious and unanimous folk tunes that were always there-unnoticed and unidentified.
The name of the accompanist Shri Lalit Kishore Bhattacharya, Shri Debashis Bhakta, Shri Soumen Das and Shri Swapan Nag will accompany the singer.
Further information can be read on the singer’s website http://www.swapanbasu.com/
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Shashanka Mukherjee passed away
Veteran Bengali person Shashanka Sekhar Mukherjee, retired IAS, passed away on 09.09.2010 at Kasturba Hospital, Habibganj, Bhopal. He was admitted there for the last few days and suffering from serious body destructions.
Mukherjee's last rites would be performed on coming Monday (13.09.2010) , 11:00 AM onwards at Subhash Nagar Bishram Ghat, Bhopal after the arrival of his son from United States of America. His residence address is : HIG - 1, Baghira Apartment, E-5, Arera Colony, Bhopal.
