http://nynjbengali.com Sudipta Bhawmik\'s Blog about Bengali life in New York, New Jersey Area Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:43:12 +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/479 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/479#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:42:05 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=479 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/479/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/478 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/478#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:36:16 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=478 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/478/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/475 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/475#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:41:59 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=475 Last Sunday (Feb 28th 2010) the noted Bengali theater personality Kumar Roy died in Kolkata after a protracted heart ailment at the age of 84. Kumar-da was long associated with the theater group Bohurupee which he joined in 1949 and was a close associate of late Sambhu Mitra. He was a director, playwright and also [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/475/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/474 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/474#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:35:52 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/archives/474 Supriyo Samajdar Prologue Let us start with me, my relationship with theatre, in general and with open theatre, in particular. I might be digressing from the central issue when I discuss these additional and presumably “irrelevant” personal stories. I could have constructed this explanation like a theoretical manifesto or just made a compilation of various people’s experience [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/474/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/468 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/468#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:30:12 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=468 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/468/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/467 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/467#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:38:26 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=467 ECTA has launched the pre-production work on their new play “Ekti Ganye Thaki” (We Live in a Village). The name of the play has been borrowed from one of Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poems, “Ek Ganye”. Currently the team is going through workshop sessions and theater games before delving into the rehearsal process that will start [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/467/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/466 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/466#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:25:56 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=466 Bidhyak Bhattacharya’s classic play “Tahar Namti Ranjana” was made into a famous radio play by the legendary duo Sambhu Mitra and Tripti Mitra. Now Listen to this wonderful drama online at the following link: http://www.raaga.com/channels/bengali/moviedetail.asp?mid=B0000126 It is available in 3 parts. Share this article [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/466/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/465 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/465#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:41:09 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=465 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/465/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/462 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/462#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:09:36 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=462 Kirana Gharana holds a very special place amongst the traditional styles of North Indian Classical vocal music. Widely recognized to be founded by Ustad Abdul Karim Khan (although opinions differ amongst the musicologists) from the village of Kirana (or Kairana) near Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, Kirana gharana has given us several excellent performers of the [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/462/feed http://nynjbengali.com/archives/461 http://nynjbengali.com/archives/461#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:16:01 +0000 sudipta http://nynjbengali.com/?p=461 Want to write in Bengali? Google now offers transliteration service from several Indian languages including Bengali. Visit http://google.com/transliterate and set up the language to Bengali using the drop down menu on the upper left corner. Then start typing in Bangla using your roman keyboard.  For example, type in “manush” and hit space button and the [...]]]> http://nynjbengali.com/archives/461/feed