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2013 BAGC COMMITTEE President’s Message President: [email protected] Bitosh Sinha 3125158203 Dear Members, Vice-President: [email protected] Asim Gangopadhyay 6304180525 On behalf of 2013 BAGC Executive committee I wish Secretary: [email protected] you “Shuvo Nabobarsho”. Sunayana Yang 3314426654 Our first event of the year, Treasurer: [email protected] Saraswati Puja, was a big Ranit Dhorchowdhury 8472742079 success mainly due to self- Cultural: [email protected] motivated hard work of our committee members and Shaibal Talukdar 8476020353 highly energized participation Shravani Datta 6304012104 of all members. Puja: [email protected] There was a single untoward Madhumita Banerjee 6306541219 incident of activating a fire alarm by a member's child. We have Suparna Gupta 6304280527 to let our children know the serious nature of these incidents. We Food: [email protected] must exercise greater vigilance to prevent mischievous behavior Aloke Raj Banerjee 8587528085 by our children at public events, or risk losing the credibility Biswaroop Datta 6304008169 needed to rent public buildings for our gatherings. Deep Bandyopadhyay 5176041364 We will celebrate Banga Sanskriti Dibas on May 4th, 2013 at Newsletter: [email protected] Streamwood High School. We are highly privileged to present Dhiman Chakraborty 6307652788 the sitar genius, Ustad Shahid Parvez, one of the finest sitar players alive today, at that event. We are also excited to present Ranjita Chattopadhyay 6308988283 APAAR BANGLA, a multi-ethnic Bangla Band with members Website/eMail: [email protected] from India, Bangladesh and the USA, at this year's Banga Rana Bose 8478437238 Sanskriti Dibas. Please come and enjoy APAAR BANGLA Facility: [email protected] performing for the first time in Chicagoland and listen to Sudip Maiti 8477222780 mesmerizing sitar by Ustad Shahid Parvez, who will be Tuhin Majumdar 3316259860 accompanied by our own tabla maestro Subhasis Mukherjee. Ads/Sponsorship: [email protected] Here are some of individuals whom we would like to recognize Jasendu Chakraborty 6304605537 for their support and help during our Saraswati Puja : Youth: [email protected] q Achintya Roy and Amit Chakraborty for getting us the Reemlee Dhorchowdhury 8472746001 facility, Reshmee Dhorchowdhury 8478584979 q Debanshu Bhattacharya for conducting the Puja, Registration : [email protected] Gokul Bose 8154829408 q Sourav Banerjee for stepping in as stage manager, Neel Saha 6308066724 q Sanatan Datta and Debabrata Pal for their assistance with BB Chairman : [email protected] registration, Monisha Datta 6308300851 Sincerely, BB Treasurer : [email protected] Bitosh Sinha Uditt Mukherjee 8152373545
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Subscription Program Members Banga Sanskriti Dibas : May 4, 2013 Adults $30 2 PM : Registration Children $20 2:30 PM : Town Hall Meeting : Discussions on Self-supporting Students $15 1. Financial / accounting transition and Non-members 2. The Banga Bhavan — BAGC reorganization committee's Adults $35 recommendation in the Banga Children $25 Bhavan committee's tenure in the BAGC Executive Committee Self-supporting Students $20 through a constitutional amendment. 3 PM : Gallery Walk: Art Exhibition by our Banga Bhavan Announcements local artists We are happy for a great start to the year 2013 at Banga 3:30 PM : Snacks & Tea Bhavan. We had a very successful “ Poush Mela” in 4 PM : Sitar Maestro Shahid Pervez — January and “ Sree Panchami” puja in February. We had Live in Concert an interesting afternoon lecture on February 24, by our 6:30 PM : Local Cultural Program : very own Dr. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty which was Banglar Mukh Ami Dekhiachi — extremely well received by the audience. There were a journey through Bengal with poems close to 100 people in attendance and it was great to see a and different forms of folk songs large number of youth taking keen interest in his 7:30 PM : Dinner informative lecture. We have plans to organize many such lectures by experts in different walks of life. 8:30 PM : Apaar Bangla Band Organization of events like this is made possible by voluntary donations from members of our community. We count on your support to maintain and enhance a Acknowledgement continuous program of lively and engaging activities. Please give generously. Every contribution, big or Front Cover small, makes a difference, and is much appreciated. Atanu Mazumder Please mail your donation checks to – Monisha Datta hhhh Banga Bhavan, 1148 N Main Street, Painting Glendale Heights, IL- 60139. Lyra Mukherjee If you would like to become a monthly donor, please contact Monisha Datta (630 776 0676) hhhh for further details. Photographs – Disclaimer – Shanku Ghosh Articles in Samaj Sambad are obtained from individual members. Sumanta Kodali The editors are not responsible for the content of these articles. Krishna Chakrabarty The opinions expressed in these articles are solely those of the Aniket Biswas contributors and are not necessarily representative of BAGC.
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3 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter A Western View of Tagore's Gitanjali before the Nobel Prize Robert D. Evans
This year is the 100th anniversary of the awarding to Western ears with the metaphysical quality, the of the Nobel Prize to Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) peculiar subtlety and intensity of Shelley; and that with for his English translation of Gitanjali. After the Nobel a simplicity that makes this miracle appear the most Prize, almost everyone reads Gitanjali through the lens natural thing in the world. As far as I know, no Western of this significant accomplishment. In order to get an poet yet born has done precisely this.’’ idea of how Western readers received the Gitanjali in Not only did Ms. Sinclar hear the English translation before the Nobel Prize, I will summarize a translations of Gitanjali read by the great English poet review article that appeared in the May 1913 edition of The North American Review. Written by May Sinclar, William Butler Yeats, she also heard Rabindranath and this article was published in the same year that the Prize others read the Bengali version of the Gitanjali. She was awarded, but before it was announced. reflects on the possibility of the beauty of the Bengali verses being carried over into the translation: May Sinclar was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (1863-1946), a popular British author and ‘‘It is not the least of his marvelous achievements literary critic. She was an activist in promoting women's that he should have preserved this quality in his rights. She became influenced by the writings of translations. In his own language he had an absolutely Sigmund Freud and was the first writer to use the term flawless medium. " Bengali", says Mr. F. H. Skrine, “stream of consciousness” as a literary concept. "unites the mellifluousness of Italian with the power possessed by German of rendering complex ideas." May Sinclar begins her article with an account of English most certainly does not, but Mr. Tagore has an argument with a gentleman friend who just does not almost persuaded it. I am told by those who know these “get” the meaning of Gitanjali. He also does not see the poems in the original that this prose rendering, value of devotional poetry in general. This lack of apparently so unerring in its sense of phrasing, of sound appreciation and non-comprehension of Gitanjali forms values and vibrations, fails to give the slenderest, most the thread upon which May Sinclar strings her shadowy idea of the beauty of the Bengali, its richness of arguments throughout the seventeen pages of her essay. association, its diaphanous texture, its glamour and its May Sinclar was able to hear the reading of musical quality, the plasticity, the subtlety, the variety of Gitanjali's English translation in the company of its rhythms. I have heard some of the songs of the William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) and William "Gitanjali” sung and recited by the poet himself and by Rothenstein (1872-1945), both friends of Tagore. May others. At the first hearing the rhythms, the pitch, were writes: strange, almost unseizable by Western ears; sounds ‘‘It was not many weeks since I had heard these tenuous and remote and disconnected like the buzzing poems for the first time, that evening when song of a swarm of gnats. On the second and the third Mr. Yeats turned Mr. Rothenstein's drawing-room into a hearing their music and their magic was apparent. holy temple by reading a dozen or more of them to about Though this strange music is lost to us, a dozen people. Even now, though they would all of Mr. Tagore's translation preserves, not only all that is course agree that what had happened was, for essential and eternal in his poetry, but much of the Literature, an event of supreme importance, they are strange magic. Indeed, the substance of it is of such probably no nearer than I am to knowing precisely what supreme value and vitality that no translation could it was that happened to them. The thing was an have killed it.’’ experience too subtle, too profound, and too personal to be readily translatable into language. And so it would Through the Gitanjali, May gets a glimpse of the have been impossible to write about it in any words that literary sensitivity of the Bengali people: would hang together if my friend had not supplied that ‘‘But as the East is subtler than the West, and as of slender thread.’’ all Eastern races the Bengali is the subtlest, so an Comparing Gitanjali to the creations of the great extreme subtlety of feeling and of rhythm is the first poets of the Western literary tradition, she states: quality that strikes you in the songs of this Bengali poet.’’ ‘‘In the Bengali poems of Rabindra Nath Tagore you will find that common emotional appeal united, in a In comparing the Gitanjali to the ambiguities in the music and a rhythm many degrees finer than writings of Catholic mystics like St. John of the Cross, Swinburne's – a music and rhythm almost inconceivable May Sinclar writes:
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‘‘Mr. Tagore has none of these ambiguities. It is Chandidas the poet; to Chaitanya Dev, the God- impossible to doubt the spirituality of these songs of intoxicated saint and seer.’’ Divine Love. They are at the very highest level of For the rest of her essay, she does a commendable attainment in their kind. They have the serenity and job of discussing the influences of Bhakti poetry, purity of supreme possession. Mystic passion embraces especially considering that she does not know Bengali. while it transcends the whole range of human passion. Like human passion it works through body, heart, and May Sinclar's remarkable essay shows that soul. It is the soul and heart of passion that you find in Tagore's Gitanjali was viewed as a deep and profound the " Gitanjali", its secret and invisible things, small and composition even before the Nobel Prize was awarded. great, all in it that is superb, inviolate, undying; all that There is no doubt that the Nobel Prize increased the is lowly, and most fragile; its impalpable, popularity of the text and led to its multiple reprintings incommunicable moods, its evanescence, its dreams, its by Macmillan. However, the Gitanjali translation stood subtleties, its reticence and courtesies; its fears and on its own as a magnificent contribution to world delicate shames.’’ literature even before it received the accolade of the Nobel Prize. I hope that Ms. Sinclar's gentleman friend May devotes nearly one third of her essay to read her essay and was able to finally understand the placing the Gitanjali in the historical context of the Gitanjali. poetry produced by the Bhakti movements of Northern India, especially in Bengal: References Sinclar, May. “The 'Gitanjali' : Or Song Offerings of ‘‘To find Mr. Tagore's true sources and affinities Rabindra Nath Tagore”, The North American Review. you must go back, first of all, to the fifteenth and Vol. 197, No. 690. (May, 1913). Pages 659-676. sixteenth centuries; to Kabir the mystic; to the great Vaishnavists who were the Humanists of India; to Wikipedia. “May Sinclar.” March 3, 2013.
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5 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter War Departure Deeya Kar (Age 20) Avik Laha (Age 15)
I am a peaceful girl who doesn't like war. On the red, crumbling chair sits an aged, I wonder if there ever will be peace on Earth. unwashed dog, silently watching, never once I hear our troops saying, ‘‘No more war, Lord !” complaining of anything. He watches the human I see innocent troops without children in front of him, one wielding an old, flattened guilt dying on the battlefield. piece of wood. The crude bat is eroded at the bottom, but I want harmful weapons to be demolished and be turned into something helpful and the rest glistens, looking like an old fossil, a positive for everyone. conveniently shaped piece of petrified wood. I am a peaceful girl who doesn't like war. Occasionally, the batter misses the ball and it hits the dog. One time it strikes him on the nose, causing him to I pretend that someday we can solve jerk upward in injured surprise. The ball then hits the problems without a war. I feel sorry for the loved ones overhanging balcony and rebounds onto his head, who die trying to protect our country. knocking him back into the seat. One of the children I touch the blood gushing out of our troops' wounds. walks over to him to pick up the ball, which has rolled I worry that maybe someday our loved ones down his back. Surreptitiously patting him on the head, will die of hunger. trying to avoid the old dog's reproachful gaze, the boy I cry when the general comes and tells us that reaches for the ball and gently removes it, taking it back our loved one is dead. to continue the game. I am a peaceful girl who doesn't like war. I understand why sometimes we need war. The dog continues to watch, as he does every day. I say we should have war only if Though the children may be somewhat noisy, and every cooperation doesn't work. now and then he is pelted with the ball, the dog enjoys it I dream that all our loved ones will come back when the kids are outside, as otherwise he is all alone. as whole persons. He sits on the chair all day, tethered by a heavy chain, I try to take my mind off the loved one that's overseas. I hope that our troops don't have to fight only getting to go inside at night. For whatever reason, a war that could have been since the children have come, he has been forced to stay prevented by cooperation. outside. The dog knows that eventually the children will I am a peaceful girl who doesn't like war. leave and he will be allowed back in the house, but he will still be sad to see them go.
His life is largely happy. He eats good food, his Another Red Riding Hood Story human owners specially prepare for him, and he gets to Komal Das (Age 5) be around people. Many other dogs he sees outside the iron gate are gaunt and seemingly rabid. The dog is Once upon a time a little girl name Red Riding Hood getting old fast, and he knows it. No longer is he able to decided to go to her grandma's house to eat muffins. On do many of the things he was once able to. If his family her way she met a pony eating hay in the forest. She were to leave this house, he would not be able to follow. asked him, ‘‘Can I ride you to my grandma's house?” The pony said, “Sure”. The day comes for the children to leave. The dog has watched as the humans load the suitcases on to a When she reached her grandma's house she saw that a waiting car outside the iron gates. The children come to big bad wolf was trying to enter her grandma's house. pat him, then move on to climb into the car. Goodbyes Little Red Riding Hood got off the pony and beat up the are exchanged between the humans as the car takes off, big bad wolf. while the dog lets out a low plaintive moan. Slowly, his Then she had muffin with her grandma. family has begun leaving his life.
6 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter The Cloud as black can get, but this was darker. It had a murky presence, which gave me the chills. It destroyed any Ishita Bhattacharya (Age 13) shimmering light in its path and was moving closer. Tim called the cloud 'the star assassin'. I asked the professor for the radioactivity reports that are automatically Sometimes people can be so oblivious. Don't tell generated by the telescope. The professor handed me a me that you have never lost something and your mom copy. The levels of radiation given off by the cloud were finds it lying right in front of you. Well, sometimes, unimaginable, pass the red danger zone, and off the moms are oblivious too. For example, I am sure your page. This was one-hundred times worse than mom doesn't know that the world was almost blown to Chernobyl. This cloud had the potential to destroy the pieces two years ago. ionosphere, troposphere, stratosphere, the mesosphere, and the thermosphere, basically all the levels of the It really all started about, oh, I don't know, one atmosphere. After destroying the atmosphere, it would hundred years ago? Anyways, there was a meteor kill every living thing on Earth. After killing us, it would collision far, far away from Earth. It created a cloud, but destroy Earth plate by plate. not a cloud of dust. It was a cloud of, who knows what? Professor D.I. Exonner spotted it thirty years ago, while “Who knows about the cloud? “ I asked. testing the Maksutov Catadioptric Telescope. It didn't look like a potential threat. After all, it was just a cloud! “Only the astronomy department. If the people No one cared about it, not even the paparazzi, who care knew, well we'd have a lot more than just the cloud to worry about.” about everything that goes around the Science Lab of California. It was just recorded as DIE, the professor's “What are we going to do?” initials. Twenty-eight years later, scientists discover that the levels of radioactivity were soaring, and that the “I have no idea. It's not like we can just put a trillion cloud was moving towards Earth. That's where I come in radiation protective jackets around Earth. And if the the picture. My dad works at the Science Lab of cloud destroys the atmosphere, the Sun and the cloud's California. He's the head of the computer engineering radiation combined would be too strong for the jackets. department. Because my dad is the head of his “Well Alice and I better leave you professionals to department, I get full access to the 14,000 acre lab. I it. Got some stuff to do before the world ends,” Tim said. walk over to the lab after school, sometimes with my friend Tim. We always head out to the astronomy “Can't your Call of Duty game wait?” I said in an department, because that is our favorite branch of aggravated tone. science. We were in the astronomy building when the “Actually, it can't If The World Is Going To End In scientists discovered the levels of radiation in the cloud. Two Days!” Tim yelled. Professor Hosmach was there. He is one of the “With you around, the world ends every day,” I greatest astronomers in the world. muttered. Tim and I said good bye and good luck to Professor H. I was sure he'd find a solution. Tim and I went “Ah! Alice and Tim! Just in time to discover the to my house and played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, crisis we're in!” Professor H said. It sounded like serious Tim's favorite game. As always, I beat him in every round business. we played. My dad came at 6:30, and Tim left. I ate dinner “What's going on?”, I asked. and in silence and then headed off to sleep. “Long story short: big radioactive cloud estimated The next morning, Tim and I walked to school. to destroy Earth in two days.” “What's the point in going to school if the world is going to end tomorrow?”, Tim asked. “Professor, you sure know how to scare someone!” Tim said jokingly. The professor's expression remained “I don't know”, I said. The walk to school was a stern, and Tim's laughter died down. quiet one. School was boring, like it is every day. “Can I see?”, I asked. After ninth period, I walked outside, and waited for Tim in the parking lot, while eating a chocolate bar. “Sure, but make sure you tie up your long brown hair before you touch the telescope,” said Professor H. I “Boy, will I miss chocolate when the world ends”, I went to the olive wood desk by the spiral staircase and thought. The weather wasn't great, and gray clouds were picked up a pair of latex gloves, so I wouldn't dirty the appearing. It looked like the cloud was coming. telescope lens. When I looked into the forty foot Obviously, Professor H hadn't found a solution yet. Tim telescope, I got scared. I always thought space was black came outside, and he looked really fat. I realized he must
7 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter be wearing multiple sweatshirts in the middle of “This isn't a joke is it, Alice? I don't have time for summer. jokes”, Professor H said, not looking up from his desk. “Oh, Tim!” I thought. I asked him what was with “No! Tim gave me the answer…” the sweatshirts. “Oh boy”, the professor muttered. “Long story. I was walking down the hall after ninth “What we have to do is to create another period and Noone came by and we were talking and-” atmosphere! Like another protective layer the radiation “Get to the point Tim.” absorbing particles in two atmospheres should be enough to prevent the cloud from destroying Earth!” I “I accidentally spilled orange juice on your violin!” exclaimed. The professor complimented me by saying Tim yelped. Of all the days I could leave my instrument that I was a genius. in the orchestra room, it had to be this one. “I know”, I smiled. The rest was on the astronomy “Oh Tim! How could you? Do You Know department. They had to create a mixture of 78% How Much That Bloody Thing Costs? You Are Going To nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% argon, carbon, water —” I punched him in the stomach, and he didn't even vapor, and the other elements in the atmosphere. This scream. mixture was put in a device known as the Spixer. It's kind of like Superman, in the sense that it flies up into “Exactly why I am wearing these protective space, and leaves the atmosphere. It then circles around layers,” Tim muttered. I was about to punch him again Earth, spreading the solution. The solution took about when I realized what a genius he was. two hours to settle before the radiation absorbing cells “Tim! You Are A Genius! You Are So Smart, started working. Of course not all the problems were And That's Coming From Me!” I shrieked. I told fixed. Some places on Earth have a lot of gloomy days him to follow me, and we ran the two miles to the and gray skies. This is because the cloud is still out there. science lab. It's just not penetrating the atmosphere. So one day, when I'm not around, You may have to come up with “Professor, I know how to stop the cloud!” I said, another solution to get rid of the cloud for once and for panting. all.
World War II Preetish Chakraborty (Age 9)
World War II was a global terrorization by the another battle. The world war began on September 1, criminal mastermind, Adolf Hitler. The war started in 1939 when Germany attacked Poland. Italy and Japan 1939 and ended in 1945. The war was fought between joined Germany and they formed the Axis team. The two teams, the Allies and the Axis. More than a hundred countries that made up the Allied power included million warriors had come to battle from the military Russia, France, Britain, United States, Rumania, Serbia, units of several nations of the world. This war caused Belgium, Greece, Portugal and Montenegro. The United about seventy thousand fatalities. It was the deadliest States joined the war in December 1941 after the Pearl war in history. Harbor attack. The United States attacked Japan by dropping atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Before the World War II started, the empire of Germany and Japan surrendered and the war ended on
Japan was already fighting with the Republic of China in August 15, 1945.
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8 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter BAGC Presents A Musical Soiree - SPANDAN
Immerse yourself in the pulse of the Sitar with Ustad of music and draw inspiration from genres as diverse as Shahid Pervez and dance to the beats of Apaar Bangla Bengali folk, rock and roll and urban pop. band at our next event Banga Sanskriti Dibas on Saturday, May 4, at Streamwood High School. They are Apaar Bangla, a multi-ethnic Bangla band with members from India, Bangladesh and the USA. Truly a USA-based Bangla band from Boston, the first of its kind is now creating waves not only in the USA, but in Kolkata too. Apaar in Bengali signifies the absence of boundaries, and the Apaar Bangla or Seamless Bengal, has been faithful to the name. Since LIVE IN CONCERT inception in the summer of 2009, they have performed at several Ustad Shahid Parvez, the Numero Uno of all the finest concerts and received a great deal of attention and sitar players alive today, carries on a legacy of sitar adulation in both USA and India. Very recently they playing that goes back several generations in his family. concluded a successful India tour performing in various He was recognized as a child prodigy and had started Bengali channels like Tara Muzik, Star Ananda, Radio performing in public at the age of eight. Tremendous Mirchi and numerous FM channels. BBC London perseverance and hard work over the years have been showcased their work and various publications like rewarded with an outstanding technical prowess and a Times of India, Hindustan Times and Ananda Bazar mastery over layakari. He identifies himself with Raga Patrika have lauded in recognition. Yaman, Darbari, Malkauns, Marwa, Todi and Shree. Ustad Shahid Parvez has performed at all major musical festivals in India and abroad including the Festival of India held in the USA, Europe, USSR, Canada, Africa, Middle East and Australia, enthralling the audience everywhere. A purist from the beginning, he is a top grade artist of All India Radio. With numerous CDs and DVDs, APAAR BANGLA several awards and accolades, and a distinguished performance career in India and Their own compositions are varied and deal with a range around the world, he is one of the few maestros to enjoy of issues from star-struck young love to the dilemmas of global reputation. By sheer precision and an astute modern-day living. Apart from their own compositions, artistic sense he has made for himself a place in the Apaar Bangla performs other popular folk numbers limitless, infinite universe of Indian Classical Music. encouraging the audience to sing along. Their first album 'East West Metro', a worldwide launch, was Not every day would you come across a Wharton released by Saregama India and received enormous Business School professor team with a Harvard post- appreciation from their fans around the globe. doctoral fellow, a scientist, a hypnotherapist, a finance / IT professional, a businessman and a corporate Band members: Prithwiraj - lead vocals & composer, executive with a degree from Carnegie Melon Fawad - piano, keyboard, arrangement, Kevin - drums, University to create music. The magic happens when all Debadeep - lead and rhythm guitar, Michael - guitar & of them have the same aspiration to break the boundaries bass, Koushik - tabla & percussion.
9 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter Cancer Free World — a dream or a possibility?
unday, February 24, which include partial or complete regression of S 2013! A bright and sunny metastatic tumors in some of the 15 advanced stage afternoon! The parking lot of cancer patients where no conventional drugs were our Banga Bhavan was almost working. Anandada explained all these to his audience full. The occasion? A talk by in a simple language full of easy banter and a keen sense eminent scientist Dr. Ananda of humor. He was also open to all kinds of questions Mohan Chakrabarty – our from the audience like, ‘‘Can someone take P28 if very own beloved Anandada. he/she is diagnosed with cancer today?” or, ‘‘Will His contribution to the field of healthy lifestyle prevent cancer? If so, what is the Biochemistry as well as to definition of healthy lifestyle?” etc. cancer research is well known to the community. But the His message to the young members of the reason for this renewed interest in this eminent scientist community, many of whom were present at the talk and is most probably an article published in the were enthusiastic participants in the question answer Anandabazar Patrika on January 28, 2013. The name of session, was to approach career with an open mind. the article is, ‘‘karkat rahasye naya sutra prabasi Even in today's world of specialization, switching field bangaleer, sangee bharat”. of work is possible with strong work ethics, solid background knowledge, confidence and passion. In his For the first 20 years (1980-2000) of his career as own words, ‘‘My story itself can be a lesson for the a biochemist, Anandada devoted himself to the study of young generation of the community.” finding bacteria to remove toxins from the environment. Anandada's dream for future? Of course it centers In 2000, he switched his field of study and started round P28, or better yet, azurin. But besides that he working to find answers to how a bacterium called harbors a dream of publishing a fiction. Unlike Pseudomonas aeruginosa caused chronic pulmonary Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor Of All Maladies infections in cystic fibrosis patients. While researching, which portrays a documentation of the epic struggle his team stumbled across a redox protein called azurin between mankind and cancer, Anandada's dream novel that has significant capacity not only to attack cancer will portray a future where man will be free from the cells but to destroy viruses like AIDS virus HIV-1 and deadly clutch of the most fatal disease. Congratulations parasites such as those causing malaria. The observation Anandada! Way to go! We are really proud to have you led to the foundation of the discovery of a drug P28, among us. a 28-amino acid peptide derived from azurin. Is P 28 or Compiled by the editors azurin going to be the miracle drug, the weapon to fight man's archetypal enemy the cancer? The answer is still hidden in the depths of future. But right now the future looks as bright as the sunny afternoon of February 24. In Phase 1 human clinical trials, chemically synthesized P28 has shown very little toxicity but significant beneficial effects
Ananda Bazar Patrika – January 28, 2013 Ananda and his lab members 2004
10 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter The Power of Science Aniket Biswas (Age 16)
In the year 2007, cancer was identified as causing 13% of all human deaths worldwide. Today, the disease continues to affect the lives of millions, posing a threat without a clear-cut solution. However, of all the various treatments and remedies available today, Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty may have found a definitive answer. Last week, Ananda mesho gave a presentation on his extensive research in cancer and bacteria, and how he found the unlikely juncture connection between the two. Prior to his lecture, I had done some research on his findings, mainly his discovery and patenting of the “oil-eating” bacteria in the 1970s. However, I was still surprised when he revealed that perhaps, he had found a way to cure cancer. This significant discovery was first made when he was studying the growth of mysterious bacteria within cystic fibrosis patients. Upon examining the bacteria, he noticed that it retained a symbiotic relationship with patients, absorbing their nutrients, while also in many cases protecting the patient from other diseases or infections. This function was then traced to the protein Azurin. In clinical trials, a synthetic version of a part of Azurin, code-named "P28", was found to lead to regression of tumors in some of the patients in whom the disease had become resistant to all conventional treatments. Ananda mesho's presentation was, without a doubt, an amazing experience from start to finish. To hear a lecture from someone I usually can only read about in a science textbook was phenomenal, and I was intrigued by everything he said. This was due, in part, to the fact that he was an engaging speaker, effectively using humor and analogies to make his information accessible to all. Although I had already harbored a significant interest in biology and science as a whole, Ananda mesho's discussion expanded my interest, opening the doors to the great potential of studying such sciences. For a long time, studying biology was, for me, strictly the equivalent of becoming a doctor. As I talked with Ananda mesho, however, I realized there is much more to the picture than that. The subject of biology also encompasses all the scientists who work to find out more about the world and find solutions to the problems the humans face. The sheer magnitude of Ananda mesho's work continues to amaze me, seeing how although his findings had humble beginnings, the endgame just might make the world a better place.
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12 mgvR msev` –:: Movie Review ::– Community Newsletter Lincoln Neela Dasgupta
At the beginning of the movie “Lincoln”, the 16th permanently is to pass an amendment to the US president is recalling a troubling dream to his wife. He Constitution. It has passed the Senate. Though there are is riding a fast moving vessel, travelling through 120 Republicans in the House, he will still need 20 darkness to an indistinct shore. He is alone. After Democrats to vote for it. Complicating matters, the deliberation, his wife believes the vessel is not a ship but Republicans are not fully united. Lincoln needs the the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. Based on support of both the Republican Party founder Francis the book “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Preston Blair and the conservative Republicans Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, the motivated to end the Civil War quickly by negotiating screenplay by Tony Kushner focuses on a time in peace and the Radical Republicans led by abolitionist President Lincoln's life when he secured his greatest Thaddeus Stevens. In the meantime, Lincoln and the victories: keeping the country united and abolishing Secretary of State William Seward also target lame duck slavery. Many of the other events we learn in school Democrats by sending agents with offers of federal jobs about President Lincoln: the Gettysburg Address, in exchange of their votes in favor of the amendment. Emancipation Proclamation, his tragic assassination Quite appropriately, the White House is shown etc. are referenced, but the film focuses on just a few not as a gleaming Greek temple supported by Ionic months to elucidate what it takes to not only be a great columns, but dark and gritty, shot in muted colors, a leader but also a great politician. place for deals and getting things done whatever it takes. “A compass,” Lincoln tells Thaddeus Stevens, Still, despite all the necessary Machiavellian leader of the Radical Republicans, “I learnt when I was techniques, Abraham Lincoln manages to float above it surveying, it'll... it'll point you to True North from where all as a father, as a husband and as a president because of you're standing, but it's got no advice about the swamps his conscience, humor, temperament and wisdom. and deserts and chasms that you'll encounter along the Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Best Actor way. If in pursuit of your destination, you plunge ahead, Academy Award for his brilliant portrayal of President heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to Lincoln and he was ably supported by Oscar nominees sink in a swamp... What's the use of knowing True Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as North?” Thaddeus Stevens, as well as a dignified and Brilliantly directed by Steven Spielberg, understated performance by David Strathairn as “Lincoln” is about the art of politics as much as it is William Seward. about a president. Politics is often a balancing act: the On President Lincoln's birthday this year, Disney pursuit of noble goals in sometimes not so honorable Educational Productions announced that it will give a ways, bringing together people with vastly different free copy of the movie, 'Lincoln' to every middle and ideas and values but all believing they are doing the best high school in the country when the film is released on for their country. DVD. This indeed is a “must-see” for every American In the movie, President Lincoln had signed the not just movie lovers. Emancipation Proclamation but is concerned that a An interesting side note: After seeing the movie presidential proclamation can be overturned by the “Lincoln”, Dr. Ranjan Batra went home, checked online courts after the war ends. In November 1864, Lincoln and found that Mississippi, the last state to do so, voted has won his second term in a sweeping victory and in to ratify the 13th Amendment, only in 1995 but because January 1865 he will be sworn in for his second term. of a clerical error, never officially notified the United During these months Lincoln finds himself with a States Archivist of the ratification. Technically the 13th unique and brief opportunity to change the trajectory of Amendment was finally ratified on February 7, 2013, the nation. thanks to Steven Spielberg and a curious Indian Lincoln believes the only way to end slavery immigrant.
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Shikha Chakrabarti, the gifted artist and a Our very own community singer, disciple of Abanindranath Tagore style of art, Mrs. Indrani Joshi will offer vocal music lessons at BB will offer weekly art classes for children and from March, 2013. adults at BB from April, 2013. Please contact her at For further details please contact her at 847-529-7662 (cell) or 630-963-8597(H). 847-854-4662 (H).
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15 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter j¤Ml i¡o¡, h¤Ll l¦¢dl A”e l¡u
Bhc¤m Sî¡l, Bh¤m hlLa, Bhc¤p p¡m¡j Hhw ®hplL¡l£ a¡C plL¡l£i¡h ®p¢VL NËqZ Ll¡l Ap¤¤¢hd¡ l¢gL¥Ÿ£e BqÚjc – HC e¡j…¢m ¢L Bj¡cl L¡R BR z ah plL¡l£i¡h fËÙ¹¡h¢V ¢hh¢Qa q'a f¡l f¢l¢Qa ? ¢Lð¡, S¡emJ HC e¡j L'¢V ¢L Bjl¡ je k¢c HC fËÙ¹¡h¢V ®L¡e ®üµR¡ph£ pwÙÛ¡ ®bL eu, fËÙ¹¡h¢V ®lM¢R ? ®h¡dqu eu z ¢L¿¹¥ fª¢bh£l C¢aq¡p j¡a«i¡o¡ Bp ®L¡e plL¡l b¡L, plL¡l£i¡h z L¡e¡X¡l ®pC pwœ²¡¿¹ ®k ®L¡e Bm¡Qe¡u HC Q¡l¢V h¡P¡m£ al¦Zl ®üµR¡ph£ pwÙÛ¡¢Vl jdÉ Bl¡ AeLl p¡b k¤š² ¢Rme e¡j Ajl qu BR z c¤'Se h¡wm¡c¢n Hhw HLSe i¡la£u z Hcl e¡j x l¢gL¥m Cpm¡j, Bhc¤p p¡m¡j Hhw Ll¦Z¡ ®k¡n£ z ®pV¡ 1952 p¡ml OVe¡ z BSLl h¡wm¡cn l¢gL¥m Hhw Bhc¤p Y¡L¡u ®k¡N¡k¡N Llme, k¡a aMe f§hÑ f¡¢LÙ¹¡e z f¡¢LÙ¹¡e plL¡l ®O¡oZ¡ Llme ®k h¡wm¡cn plL¡l ¢hou¢V ¢hhQe¡ Lle Hhw plL¡l£i¡h EcѤ i¡o¡ p¡l¡ f¡¢LÙ¹¡el HLj¡œ l¡øÊi¡o¡ qh z Bl fËÙ¹¡h¢V UNESCO-u f¡W¡e z Hlfl AeL dl¡d¢l, ®pC ®bLC q'm ®N¡mj¡ml p§œf¡a z öl¦ qm fË¢ah¡c, AeL fœ¢h¢eju Qmm¡ z ®nofkÑ¿¹ h¡wm¡cnl öl¦ q'm B¾c¡me z 21n ®ghË¥u¡l£ Y¡L¡l l¡Ù¹¡u HL ¢nr¡j¿»L EcÉ¡N ¢em h¡wm¡cn plL¡ll fr ®bL fË¢ah¡c ¢j¢Rm p¡¢jm qu¢Rme Bhc¤p, Bhc¤m, Bh¤m B¿¹ÑS¡¢aL j¡a«i¡o¡ pwœ²¡¿¹ HC fËÙ¹¡h¢V UNESCO-a Hhw l¢gLl¡ z ¢L¿¹¥ ®p¢ce ay¡cl j¡a«i¡o¡l A¢dL¡l f¡W¡e¡ qu Hhw 1999 p¡ml eiðl j¡p fËÙ¹¡h¢V lr¡l c¡h£ f¡¢LÙ¹¡e£ ®pe¡cl …¢ma Ù¹ì qu ¢Nu¢Rm z Nªq£a qu x "21st February proclaimed International HC Q¡l¢V ala¡S¡ h¡P¡m£ al¦Zl jªaÉ¥ h¡wm¡ i¡o¡ lr¡l Mother Language Day throughout the world to B¾c¡meL HaC ®S¡lc¡l Ll a¥m¢Rm ®k ®nofkÑ¿¹ commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed their f¡¢LÙ¹¡e plL¡l h¡P¡m£cl c¡h£l L¡R j¡b¡ ea Lla lives on this day in 1952." ®i¡V¡i¥¢Va fËÙ¹¡h¢V h¡dÉ qe z ¢L¿¹¥ r¢a k¡ qh¡l a¡ qu ¢Nu¢Rm z öd¤j¡œ HLh¡lC f¡n qu ¢Nu¢Rm z h¡wm¡cn plL¡ll Be¡ djÑL pðm Ll ®cnl HLa¡ lr¡ Ll¡ f¡¢LÙ¹¡e HC fËÙ¹¡h¢Va ®k pjÙ¹ ®cn fr ®i¡V ¢cu¢Rm a¡cl plL¡ll fr pñh q'm e¡ z 1952 p¡m qu¢Rm k¡l jdÉ ¢Rm x i¡la, nË£mˆ¡, Cl¡e, C¢SÃV, C¾c¡e¢nu¡, p§œf¡a, h¡wm¡ i¡o¡ Hhw h¡P¡m£ pwú«¢a lr¡l ®pC l¡¢nu¡, ¢mb¤u¡¢eu¡, ®pÔ¡i¡¢Lu¡, ¢g¢m¢f¾p, fÉ¡l¡…u, B¾c¡mel ®Sl ®no fkÑ¿¹ 1971 p¡m pª¢ø q'm qä¥l¡p, CaÉ¡¢c z fËÙ¹¡h¢Vl fr ph ®Qu a¡vfkÑf§ZÑ Bd¤¢eL fª¢bh£l fËbj h¡P¡m£ l¡øÊ h¡wm¡cnl z ®i¡V¢V ¢Rm f¡¢LÙ¹¡e plL¡ll z HLC ®h¡dqu hm ü¡d£ea¡l ®pC ms¡C-H p¡¢jm qu¢Rme h¡wm¡cnl "C¢aq¡pl f¢lq¡p' z pjÙ¹ pÇfËc¡ul pjÙ¹ ®fn¡l j¡e¤o x L¢h, p¡¢q¢aÉL, AdÉ¡fL, ¢nrL, nË¢jL, ®rajS¥l, °p¢eL, f¤¢mn, HC fËp‰, HC fËhå¢Vl ¢nl¡e¡j B¢j d¡l Ll¢R L¨¨Ve£¢aL, R¡œ, ph¡C z Bl ®pC N¡e¢V k¡ ¢L e¡ ph¡CL p¡¢q¢aÉL-p¡wh¡¢cL A¢ja¡i ®Q±d¤¢ll ®mM¡ hC x "j¤Ml h¡wm¡ i¡o¡l jkÑ¡c¡ Hhw h¡wm¡cnl ü¡d£ea¡ lr¡l i¡o¡ h¤Ll l¦¢dl' ®bL z Bjl¡ AeLC S¡¢ee¡ ®k öd¤ ms¡Ca Eà¤Ü Ll¢Rm, ®p¢V ¢Rm x "Bj¡l i¡Cul lš² h¡wm¡cnC eu, j¡a«i¡o¡ h¡wm¡l jkÑ¡c¡ lr¡l ms¡C l¡P¡e¡ 21n ®ghË¥u¡l£, B¢j L£ i¥¢ma f¡¢l' z i¡laJ qu¢Rm z Bp¡jl ¢nmQll h¡P¡m£l¡ ms¡C Ll, lš² T¢lu, h¡wm¡ i¡o¡l A¢dL¡l Bc¡u prj OVe¡ ¢L¿¹¥ ®pM¡eC ®bj b¡L¢e z ""90-Hl cnL qu¢Rme z ¢nmQl ®Sm¡u Apj£u¡l p‰ p‰ h¡wm¡J L¡e¡X¡l iÉ¡ˆ¥i¡l nqll HL¢V ®üµR¡ph£ pwÙb¡ EcÉ¡N plL¡l£ i¡o¡ ¢qp¡h ü£L«a quR z phno, HM¡e ¢eu l¡oVÊf¤”l L¡R Bhce S¡e¡e – fË¢ahRl 21n EõM Ll¡ ®h¡dqu AfË¡p¢‰L qhe¡ ®k h¡wm¡ HMe ®ghË¥u¡l£-L "B¿¹ÑS¡¢aL j¡a«i¡o¡ ¢chp' ¢qp¡h ü£L«¢a fª¢bh£l pçj ph ®Qu L¢ba i¡o¡ z ®cJu¡ ®q¡L'' z ¢L¿¹¥ ¢hou¢V ®kqa¥ UNESCO-l H¢š²u¡ll jdÉ, a¡C fËÙ¹¡h¢V ¢eE CuLÑ ®bL f¡¢Wu According to the Encyclopedia Britannica — Bengali is the seventh most widely spoken ®cJu¡ qm fÉ¡¢lp, UNESCO-l pcl cgal z fÉ¡¢lp language in the world, after Mandarin, English, ®bL iÉ¡ˆ¥i¡lL S¡e¡e¡ qm ®k fËÙ¹¡h¢V ®kqa¥ Hindi, Spanish, Russian / Belarusian and Arabic.
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18 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter Trivia Quiz Ranajoy Ganguli
1. This great Indian leader went to study in eventually leave USA due to “McCarthyism”. He Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge to matriculate stayed in Vevey, Switzerland for the last twenty from there in 1919. He stood fourth in the ICS four years of his life. entrance examination and was selected. But he 8. This famous French existentialist author, rejected the offer because he did not want to serve the British. He later became one of the vital forces playwright, novelist and screenwriter was awarded of Indian freedom movement. a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, but he refused it saying that he always declined official honors 2. This English actor of international repute was and that “A writer should not allow himself to be actually spotted by Sir Laurence Olivier when the turned into an institution". new comer was acting in the Palace Theater in UK. He started acting as an understudy for Olivier in 9. This famous Indian star actor initially started his Royal National Theater went later on to career in Television in the TV serials called “Fauji” Hollywood to become one of the legendary actors and “Circus” before making it big in Bollywood. of all times. 10. This famous Indian star actor was initially named 3. Name three singers who never went through as “Inquilaab” (revolution) by his parents due to formal extensive classical trainings, but were very his being born in the pre-independence era. But the successful in their career as playback singers in the name was later changed. He also started working in Indian film industry. a company in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His first 4. This famous Bollywood singer actually went to break in a movie was as a voice narrator in a movie Mumbai to become a film actor, started as an actor- by Mrinal Sen. cum-singer but ended up being a singer instead. 11. This starving painter could sell only a single 5. This singer did his first recording in painting in his lifetime although all of his paintings All India Radio at the age of 13 and then went on to became priceless and were auctioned for millions cut his first gramophone disc under Columbia label of dollars after his death. In a fit of depression and at the age of 17. He also left Engineering to pursue insanity he even cut one of his ears and gifted it to a his career in music. lady. 6. This Western musician came to India 12. Apart from being authors, what else is common to learn Sitar from Pandit Ravi Shankar and among them the following people? implemented it in some of his music. He also became deeply interested in the Hare Krishna Robin Cook, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Ronald movement in India in the 60s. Ross, Khaled Hosseini, Karl Jung, Taslima Nasreen. 7. This legendary western actor and director was accused of communism in late 40s and had to Courtesy : Mr. Internet (answers on page 8)
CONDOLENCE We express our heartfelt condolence to Suparna Gupta (Rinku) who lost her father, Dr. Ranjit Kumar Roy, on January 10, 2013.
19 mgvR msev` Community Newsletter Bengali New Year Bani Bhattacharyya
When I left India that was tharosho ekathor saal happiness and joy in every Bengali's mind. Bengali New (=1964) according to Hindu Vedic Solar calendar based Year is celebrated mainly in West Bengal, Bangladesh on Surya Siddanta. Since that time I miss Bengali New and among Bengali communities in Assam, Tripura. Of Year very much. I want to write here about my course all over India in the world wherever Bengalis childhood experiences of Nabobarsho in the city of reside, they try not to forget to celebrate their new year Calcutta, when I was growing up there. This article is for and have fun. As I remember last day of the Choitra was all second and third generation Bengali children here in never celebrated at our home, but Bengali young people America, because I enjoyed tremendously that day welcomed Nabobarsho with the early morning “probhat i.e.the first day of Bengali New Year. pheri” processions traditionally wearing red border The New Year day among Bengalis is also known white sari for girls and white dhuti kurta for boys. as Pohela (i.e. first day) Baishakh (i.e. first month of the Household kitchen exude the delicious spicy Bengali year) which started on 12th April in the Julian aroma on that day, but Hilsa fish becomes the pure calendar between 590 CE and 625 CE. During Grishsho pleasantries for our palate with newly harvested rice kaal that means summer month, again which follows because short lived Hilsha fish promotion certainly Choitra i.e. last month of Bengali calendar. attract Bengali's nostalgic desire for food with other According to some literature King Shashangko of culinary delicacy. ancient Bengal started the Bengali era. In the evening there are cultural display of music, dance and drama all over where two popular Tagore's This year Pohela Baishakh going to be on 15th of musical invocations, “Esho Hey Baisakh Esho Esho” April, on Monday and will be the year 1420, about 594 years less than 2013 according to Gregorian calendar and “Aaj Ranashaje Bajiye Bishan Esheche Eshese era. Baishak” were sung very commonly to welcome New Year. Crowds are all over especially near Maidan, Nabobarsho (nabo= new and barsho= year), which Calcutta Town Hall, and New Market to enjoy the great means Bengali New Year is a seminal event in Bengali events. Government of India used to take part to conduct social & cultural life. It corresponds to harvest, Bangla Sangeet Mela in Rabindra Sadan when I was beginning of financial year for business with haal khata there. Yes, that used to be fun, and was whole day fun. for traders in Bengal when they purchase new book to start new venues only after Ganesh and Laksmi puja I do not want to forget to mention Baishakh month Mantra chanted. Devotees go to temples and to Kalighat is also considered auspicious month for wedding and Mandir making long queues in front to receive the who knows if I did not elope; I could have been married blessings from Almighty. Nabobarsho brings the in Calcutta at the very month of Baishakh! occasion for festivals, feasting and of course it brings Courtesy : Mr. Internet
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"Rituranga" — a musical journey through Rabindrasangeet by Bangla school children
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