Vijay Tendulkar : A Real Indian Playwright
May 30, 2008 on 4:48 pm | In Arts-Culture, Generic | No Comments
I was deeply hurt to hear the news of the death of Vijay Tendulkar, one of the greatest playwrights of Indian theater. It was only last year, at the South Asian Theater festival, I had the opportunity of meeting Mr. Tendulkar. It was an experience that I will never forget. He was physically frail, but his will was as strong as any young man. It was this will and his love for theater that brought him over here, few thousand miles away from home, to see how are we doing our theater. During his speech at the opening ceremony, the way he protested against the non-issuance of visa to one of the participating teams demonstrated that the fire was still burning within him - the fire that led him to write the plays that changed Indian theater.
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A Mini Theater Festival
May 29, 2008 on 11:14 pm | In Generic | No Comments
On June 28th and 29th, ECTA Inc. will be presenting a mini theater festival of three plays. On 29th June, an encore presentation of the highly acclaimed play “Satyameva” will be held at 3.30pm. This play has received great reviews both in Kolkata and USA and has been recently made into a Telefilm (titled Satyasotyo for Tara channel) by the reputed actor and director of Kolkata, Chandan Sen. Watch the promo video by clicking the image above.
On 29th, the festival features two shows of two plays each. The first play, Ashomoy, is a novel audio-visual presentation by Theater Practitioners of Cleveland OH, directed by the veteran All India Radio and Doordarshan artist Saubhik Sen. “Ashomoy” will be followed by “Taconic Parkway“, a one act play by ECTA Inc. “Taconic Parkway” is a dark play of an immigrant Bengali couple and a visiting actor from India. The play premieres at the California Natyamela on June 7th, 2008.
Synopsis of the plays and other details are given below. Seating is limited, hence please book your seats as early as possible.
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May 24, 2008 on 10:10 am | In Generic, Social | No Comments
Take a peek at this exciting promotional video “Advantage Bengal” produced by the Department of Information Technology, Govt. of West Bengal and Webel. Listen what the IT business leaders are saying about the IT opportunities in West Bengal as well as from the Chief-Minister Mr. Buddhadev Bhattacharya and IT Minister Dr. Debesh Das. Share this video with others who may be interested by using the “Share This” button on your right.
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May 15, 2008 on 2:20 pm | In Generic, Social | No Comments
The Financial Express on its March 19 issue published an article which drew the attention of many high-tech entrepreneurs. It reported the laying of the foundation stone of a twenty story building that will house the India Design Center (IDC), a semiconductor chip design facility. West Bengal IT minister Debesh Das, who laid the foundation stone, said the facility will be set up according to a concept paper prepared by IIT Kharagpur and will offer semiconductor-related post graduate courses. It will also have space for semiconductor-driven companies and serve as an incubation centre for promoting entrepreneurs. Continue reading West Bengal on the Verge of an IT Revolution?…
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Exhibition of Water Colors by Indrani Choudhury
May 8, 2008 on 2:30 pm | In Events | No Comments| June 7, 2008 | ||
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Indrani Choudhury’s paintings (all in water color) will be on display at the Highland Park Public Library, Highland Park, NJ. for the month of June, 2008. She will be present at the Exhibit on 7th June (Saturday) from 1-4 pm. You can find some of her paintings at www.indranisgallery.com.
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None FoundAnanda Sandhya Featuring Pandit Madhav Gudi
May 6, 2008 on 12:07 pm | In Events | No Comments| May 9, 2008 | ||
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Ananda Sandhya – May 9th 8.00pm
Ananda Mandir, Cedar Grove Lane, Somerset, NJ
Feature artist: Pandit Madhav Gudi (classical vocal)
Tabla accompaniment – Sai Shyam Mohan
Harmonium – Sri Madhu Vora
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None FoundA New Translation of Tagore’s “Rakta Karabi” - The Red Oleanders
May 5, 2008 on 11:03 pm | In Arts-Culture | No Comments
“Rakta Karabi” by Rabindranath Tagore has been considered by many pundits as one of the pillars of modern Bengali drama. The universal appeal of the play needed to transcend beyond the confines of the limited Bengali speaking populace and Tagore himself took upon the task of translating the play to English and gave it the title of “Red Oleanders”. Unfortunately, not too many productions of this wonderful play happened in the western world. One conjecture has been that Tagore’s language, in his translated works, failed to withstand the test of time as the English language evolved over the ages. Continue reading A New Translation of Tagore’s “Rakta Karabi” - The Red Oleanders…
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May 1, 2008 on 5:21 pm | In Events | No Comments| May 4, 2008 | ||
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Hindustani Classical Vocal Concert by Pt. Ganapati Bhat
Host: Gajanan Hegde / Anoop Bhargava
Location:
Gentry Club House
43 Franklin Drive, Plainsboro, NJ 08536 US
When:
Sunday, May 4, 3:00PM
Phone:
609-716-0202
Pandit Ganapati Bhat, is one of the leading lights of Hindustani Classical vocal music. Panditji is a “Gandabandha Shishya”, disciple of Pandit Basavaraj Rajguru, the maestro from Dharwad. Panditji’s gayaki is inspired by Gwalior and Patiala gharanas as well.
Panditji will be accompanied by Gopala Krishna on Tabla and Shreepad Hosmane on Harmonium. Please visit www.PtGanapatiBhat.com for additional details.
Minimum suggested donation is $ 15 per person. Tea, Coffee and Light snackswill be served during break.
Please forward this invitation to other classical music lovers as well.
Please RSVP at the earliest to help us plan the event.
ghegde@comcast.net
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None FoundNorth America Bengali Conference (NABC) and the North American Bengali
May 1, 2008 on 1:08 pm | In Arts-Culture, Generic | 2 Comments
Undoubtedly, the North America Bengali Conference (NABC) or Bongosammelan, has become the key annual cultural event of the Bengalis not only belonging to the North America but also to the Bengalis all over the world. The amount of interest amongst the Bengalis back home in West Bengal is phenomenal. Artists of all genre’s (musicians, actors, writers) consider an invitation to perform at the NABC as a major achievement in their career. It was quite evident the other day when in one of the Bengali tele-serials/films, one of the characters (a musician) was expressing with pride about her recent invitation to perform at the Bongosammelan and highlighting the fact as a key measure of her success as a musician. Besides, any person who has been even loosely associated with any NABC organizing committee would know how they get deluged with requests from performers to get an invitation. However, the organizers of NABC are very careful and they place their bets only on the time tested popular artists with very few promising performers in the list. Continue reading North America Bengali Conference (NABC) and the North American Bengali…
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Chhandayan All-Night Concert
April 23, 2008 on 2:49 pm | In Events | No Comments| May 10, 2008 9:00 pm | to | May 11, 2008 8:00 am |
May 10th (Saturday 9 p.m. to Sunday, 8 a.m.)
Chhandayan All-Night concert
Synod Hall, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC
Pt. Jasraj (Vocal), Smt. Joya Biswas (Sitar), Pt. Ronu Mazumdar (Bansuri)
Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya (Guitar), Smt. Rajyashree Ghosh (Vocal)
K. V. Mahabala (Sitar)
Accompaniment : Samir Chatterjee, Ramdas Palsule, Daniel Weiss (Tabla) Dibyarka Chatterjee and on Harmonium will be Kedar Naphade.
Ticket & information : 973 460 5282 / http://www.tabla.org/allnight.html