http://nynjbengali.com Sudipta Bhawmik\'s Blog about Bengali life in New York, New Jersey Area Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © bhawmik@gmail.com () bhawmik@gmail.com() 1440 Sudipta Bhawmik\'s Blog about Bengali life in New York, New Jersey Area bhawmik@gmail.com No no http://nynjbengali.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://nynjbengali.com 144 144 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/452 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/452#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:45:31 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=452 Few months ago, I wrote my wish list about the kind of performers I’d like to see at the 2010 NABC in Atlantic City, and the one artist I mentioned specifically was Sahaj-Ma. When NABC 2010 committee announced the name of their foreign performers, I was delighted to see Sahaj-Ma and Utpal-Faqir’s name on the [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/452/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/447 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/447#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:51:06 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=447 The count down to NABC 2010 has started.  In little more than seven months from now, Bengalis from all over USA and abroad will converge upon Atlantic City in New Jersey. Kallol of New Jersey, the host organization of NABC 2010, is working at a hectic pace to make it a great event. Most of [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/447/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/446 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/446#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:32:37 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=446 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/446/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/443 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/443#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:38 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=443 On November 24th, 2009, President Barack Obama  hosted the first state dinner, since his inauguration, in honor of Dr. Manmohan Singh, the honorable Prime Minister of India and his wife Mrs. Gursharan Kaur.  State dinners honoring foreign head of states are huge events and are attended by members of the top echelon of the society. The official [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/443/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/442 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/442#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:45:44 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=442 I have been an ardent reader of “Desh”, the premier Bengali literary magazine since my childhood days. As I moved to the US, I continued my subscription through the “House of Ananda”, a New York based agency of ABP (Ananda Bazar Publications). I could pay my subscription dues using a credit card or via Paypal [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/442/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/441 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/441#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:42:09 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=441 The October issue of the bilingual (Bengali/English) webzine Urhalpool is now online. The latest issue includes stories by Mandakranta Sen, Samaresh Majumdar, Nabanita Deb Sen, Alolika Mukherjee, Abul Bashar and others.  Serials by Sunil Ganguly and Taslima Nasreen are still ongoing. Special attraction would be the interview of Baichung Bhutia and  a memoir by Srikanta [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/441/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/439 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/439#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:21:01 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=439 Three months ago, when I lost my mother, I received the following email from a close friend: Tonight at the Sahitya O Alochana meeting I heard the very sad news of your mother’s passing away. I offer my heart-felt condolences to you. I have suffered some losses in my own life and I know first hand the sorrow [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/439/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/438 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/438#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:02:08 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/archives/438 The three day long 3rd Annual New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest (NJISACF) concluded on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at the Rutgers Busch Campus Student Center. The festival does not have the clout that some of the other major films festivals around the World enjoy, but it is gradually gaining in momentum. The [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/438/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/434 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/434#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:23:55 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=434 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/434/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/432 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/432#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:33:13 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=432 Herta Muller, “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed” won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. Ms. Müller, 56, emigrated to Germany in 1987 after years of persecution and censorship in Romania. She is the first German writer to win the Nobel award since Günter [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/432/feed