BKPA Presents:

E-Magination Fall 2018 BKPA Kali Puja

Saturday, November 10th, 2018 Tagore Hall Somerset, NJ 08873

3:00 — 4:30 Puja & Anjali

4:30 — 5:00 Shyama Sangeet

5:00 — 5:45 Prosaad

6:00 — 7:30 Cultural Program Part I Udbodhoni Maaer Koley Kolkata Bardhoyker Baranasi

7:30 — 8:30 Fireworks & Dinner

8:30 — 9:30 Cultural Program Part II Chirodiner Gaan

Thank you for joining us today! See you at our future events. Dear Readers,

Welcome to BKPA’s third annual Kali Puja! I hope all of you are enjoying the festivities. Two years ago, we held our first Kali Puja, a day spent with family and friends, filled with fun. It takes such impressive amounts of teamwork, leadership, and energy to put together this event and the many others that the organization holds throughout the year. These cultural events are not just one of the core aspects of BKPA; they also shape our unique experience of East-West cross-cultural understanding.

Back when I was in third grade, my family attended our first BKPA event, Saraswati Puja. With the blessings of the Goddess of Learning, we began attending Bangla class. Immediately, I found a connection with all these kids who spoke Bangla just like me. It was exciting to learn more of the Bengali language and to understand more about the culture as a whole. Most importantly, I felt extremely proud to have a place where I could learn and share my Bangla heritage outside of my house.

As the years went by, BKPA became less of a Bangla class and more of an extended family. I realize now how lucky I am to celebrate Noboborsho, Rabindra Jayanti, and Kali Puja with the same group of people who spend Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas with me — allowing me to celebrate both sides of my cultural identity. Even on a day to day basis, I am so proud and thankful that I am able to understand, speak, read, and write both English and Bangla. I can easily communicate with my grandparents and other relatives, and I can learn and understand any catchy Bangla song on my own.

My experience really reflects on the organization as a whole — BKPA is a group brought together by cultural pride and guided by the passionate leadership of Meena-mashi and Anup-mesho. From the moment I joined, I felt that BKPA was unique because I was not just learning the Bangla language, I was also forming a new understanding of myself, my family, and my culture. Under the nurturing guid- ance of all the Mashis and Meshos, who generously volunteer their time, we learn how to read, write, recite, sing, and dance. Most importantly, we learn how to be proud of the Bengali heritage that we keep alive despite being almost 8,000 miles away from Bengal.

Best Regards,

Mitali Chowdhury BKPA Executive Team Member & Previous Co-President

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Dear BKPA Families and Friends,

We welcome you to the Bengali Kids of Princeton Area’s third annual Kali Puja. BKPA gives kids an opportunity to learn about the Bengali language and culture in a fun way.

As Kali Puja is our biggest annual event, we would like to take a moment to reflect on the organization’s progress. Starting off in the beginning of 2018, Saraswati puja on January 27th at Durga Mandir was a grand success. During the summer, we organ- ized a summer camp and had lots of fun. Unfortunately, due to inclement weather we had to cancel our summer picnic. We know many kids were looking forward to the picnic, but we will make it up with our upcoming holiday event. Throughout the year, including the summer, we had weekly Bengali Heritage Class (BHC) at the Plains- boro Recreation and Community center. The weekly BHC classes gives members the opportunity to learn how to read, write, and speak Bangla. Moreover, the weekly class gives us a consistent, specified time to come together with our friends to learn songs, dances, and plan upcoming events and community work.

Three years ago, Kali Puja started as a small event but has grown to be our main event, and therefore, an extra special occasion to look forward to. This year’s puja theme is “Kolkata and Kalighat”. We hope you enjoy all the effort that has been put forward to organize this puja and cultural show—our favorite part is always the fire- works! We would also like to extend our gratitude for enjoying Kali Puja with us, whether it is your first time or you have been here since the first one!

As always, BKPA members would like to thank our BHC teachers, parents, and volunteers for giving us a platform to express ourselves and learn about our heritage. We are so proud to be part of the BKPA family and it has been an honor to be your presidents.

Sincerely,

Anisha Das Anushka P kayastha 2018 BKPA Co-Presidents

7/7 Committee Members:

Co-Presidents: Anisha Das, Anushka Purkayastha

Vice Presidents: Rupsha Chakraborty, Swayam Shuvra Chakraborty

Executives : Sahil Banerjee, Mitali Chowdhury, Sanjukta Mahata, Sohan Pramanik

Officers: Aabir Banerjee, Shalin Banerjee, Pratyush Charkaborty, Sayan Shuvra Chakraborty, Biswajoy Mazumdar, Arush Sanbui

Staff: Roopkatha Bagchi, Aarohi Banerjee, Raima Bhattacharjee, Reyan Bhattacharjee, Anish Bhattacharya, Amolika Chatterjee, Krittika Dutta, Shreshta Haldar, Arush Kundu, Bipasha Mazumdar, Ayushee Mukhopadhyay, Autri Ojha, Nidhi Pramanik, Akanksha Purkayastha, Swarnab Roy, Aaryan Roy, Mia Saha, Raj Saha, Rishi Sanbui, Anya Sarkar

Assistants: Anika Bandyopadhyay, Anjelika Banerjee, Agniv Chatterjee, Kavisha Dutta, Eshan Ojha, Jason Roy, Anjali Mukhopadhyay, Saayan Sarkar

Thank you, to our past Presidents:

Sahil Banerjee & Mitali Chowdhury Sohan Pramanik & Sanjukta Mahata Soham Bhattacharya Arnob Dam Pia Pal Anu Gupta Anita Dam Nikhilesh Dey Subha Samanta Sneha Basu Nimita Mittra

8/8 Mission & Vision

BKPA stands for “The Bengali Kids of Princeton Area”. Our mission is to bridge the gap between American and Bengali cultures, while learning about the Bengali Culture, Heritage, and Language in a fun way.

Bengali is the 7th most spoken language in the world. Our organization focuses on four pillars of instruction: Education, Cultural, Literary and Charity.

As American Bengali Kids, our goals are to pursue higher education, establish ourselves as good citizens, and give back to the local and global community.

Four Pillars

EDUCATIONAL LITERARY • Weekly Bengali Heritage Class • E-Magazines • Trips/ Tours • Book Publishing • Physician Shadowing • Providing Academic Program in India Scholarships in West Bengal

CULTURAL CHARITABLE • Saraswati Puja • Autism Walk • Bengali New Year • Performance at • Summer Picnic Nursing Homes • Kali Puja • Volunteering Abroad • Holiday Play Outing

9/9 Executive Committee Members

Co-Presidents:

Anisha Das Anushka Purkayastha Vice Presidents:

Rupsha Chakraborty Swayam Shuvra Chakraborty

Other Executives:

Sahil Banerjee Mitali Chowdhury Sanjukta Mahata Sohan Pramanik

Founder:

Anita Dam

10/10 The Bengali Heritage Class concentrates in exposing kids to our Bengali language, culture, heritage and helps them to learn the material in a FUN WAY.

Current students are...

Aabir Arush S Rishi Aarohi Autri Rishita Aaryan Ayan Roopkatha Aishani Ayushee Rupkatha Akanksha Bipasha Rupsha B Amolika Biswajoy Saesha Anish Kavisha Sayan Shuvra Anisha Krittika Shalin Anushka Mia Shreya Anya Nidhi Sienna Arin Pratyush Sreya Arkayan Raj Swarnab Arush K Reyan

11/11 Bengali Heritage Class Teachers:

Language Teachers:

Anjali Ganguly Biplab Majumdar Rupa Sanbui Sujoy Dutta Meena Dam Sumana Bhattacharya

Teachers' Assistants:

Arush Sanbui Biswajoy Majumdar Akanksha Purkayastha

Performing Arts:

Simi Purkayastha Subhamita Chanda Sutapa Banerjee Sabari Chaterjee Debjani Das

Costumes & Make Up:

Soma Das Lata Banerjee Sanchita Pratihar Sumana Bhattacharya

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“ ” Ishani Chowdhury 14/14 “Kolkata, My Second Home”... By: Aishani Mukherjee

Our family has been get to each other’s houses. know I said I have a lot of moving since I was little. I Anyways, I’m gonna memories of Kolkata, so I was born in Boston, Massa- change the topic now. My can’t list ALL of them, but I chusetts, but we hardly most fond memories of have one more for you. The stayed there. It was like, we visiting Kolkata…..hmmm, last memory I will share is stayed in one place one or let’s see. One thing my Rajarhat. It’s where I lived two years, (if we were lucky, before I came here from maybe two and a half) then 2014-2015. That is a good one day, out of the blue, we place. I loved it there. My would get a call from my friends were the best, and dad that we had to pack up our parents were even our things and move. better friends. I went to a Whenever I heard this, good school, and wherever I was, this news everything was perfect. always shattered my heart Until we moved again, back into a million pieces. I quite to the USA was devastated. vividly remember the last However, I like my life here few times that I moved. One as well. But it’s not too bad particular place that we over at Kolkata at all. Not at frequently went and came all. back from was Kolkata. I have so many memories there that even I can’t keep count of all of them! The family loves doing is eating last time we visited was in egg rolls. I remember one January, for my Aunt’s wed- day my mom, aunt, and I ding. I call her Sweetheart (I went on a busy night to a don’t know why, the name roll shop. Mmmm, it tasted just stuck since I was little), like heaven! One specific and she calls me that back. place we went to eat rolls Anyhow, it was really fun. was Bedwin. Gods, it is The night before we left, I good! (Definitely try it) was so sad! I didn’t want to Another memory I have is leave India at all. Both my City Center 2. It is a huge mom’s parents and my mall in Salt Lake City. There dad’s parents live in are so many high-quality Uttarpara, so we don’t have shops there! It’s one of my to travel a million miles to favorite malls ever. So, I

15/15 My Kolkata Trip By Anisha Das

A couple of years back I some of the best Christmas took a trip to Kolkata with lighting in the central city of my family. I have visited the Park Circus and Esplanade city before – but I was too area and in the malls. young to remember the details. Just the thought Visiting my family was a that I would be going to Kol- wonderful experience for kata brought in lots of anxi- me because I got to meet ety in my mind. I had some relatives from both sides of pre-conceived ideas but parents. I have experi- was pleasantly taken aback enced the best hospitality I by modern Kolkata. could ever imagine. I met my Aunt and cousins for the I saw Malls, numerous first time; they came from hotels, flyovers in Kolkata. Australia to see us. I got to The malls also had arcade Shantiniketan though. I do many things I had never and bowling allies where I went with my Aunt and done before, such as ride spent time with my friends. Mom and it reminded me of on a motorcycle, riding a The best part of it was the 4th of July Carnival back Toto (3 wheeler) and get food court – which offered home in US because of the driven around by a chauf- different varieties of mouth- variety of rides, prizes, etc. feur. It was a memorable watering foods. In addition There were many booths experience to connect – there were KFC and Mc- filled with clay & ceramic myself to my heritage and Donalds chain that were sculptures and hand-craft- my family. I would love to serving Indian varieties of ed garments, leather ware go back and visit Kolkata food. & colorful jewelry and again. booths selling pickles, I saw people dressed up mouthwatering sweets. just like me, as a matter of There was Baul musicians, fact I found only in suburbs local folk dancers who & villages ladies wearing made the evenings splen- saree & salwar. I was totally did. fascinated by Dakshine- swar Kali Temple, Belur Besides sightseeing there Maath on the bank of river have been many fond Ganga and the Victoria Me- memories created while morial. I also spend a day spending time in Kolkata. at Nicco Park & Science Some of the best parts city. My favorite place were visiting family and Toto Car was the Poush Mela in touring fun places. I saw

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18/18 My Most Memorable Day By Ayan Das Last year I visited Aruba, a At some point – we actually remember our journey and Dutch Caribbean island in landed on the sea-bed. we came back to the hotel. South America. I have That concluded the most spent time in the most The sea bottom was full of memorable day of my life beautiful beach with white beautiful coral and numer- when I fulfilled my dream to sand and deep blue waters. ous fishes going in and ride in a submarine. But the most memorable around them. The sub was day was when my dad took going around an area. We us for a submarine ride. also saw couple of ships under water. One of them We got tickets on-line and was actual ship-wreck and then took a cab to down- the other one was put down town Aruba. There we had for display purpose. to wait till our boarding time. A boat took us to the After 30 minutes – the sub submarine. I had the started to go up. We took chance to view the beauti- plenty of pictures of the ful shore lines from the sea-life. My only regret is I edge of the boat. was looking for a shark and could not find one. Soon the sub-marine was in sight floating in the After the submarine ride – middle of the sea. It looked we came back to shore in like something from a the same boat. My mom movie – but was much got some souvenir, so we smaller in size. We lined up to board the sub-marine. I ARUBA also shook hands with the captain.

We got inside the sub through a small stair. There were port holes from where we would be able to see outside. After everyone was boarded – the subma- rine started to go down. There was a digital scale which was showing how far we were going under water.

19/19 My Fond Memories of Kolkata !¢öìëû˜y þ™y!œ“þ

„þœ„þy“þy £œ xy›yîû Ÿ£îûÐ xy›yîû xyþ™˜‹öì˜îû ‹yëû†y Ð „þœ„þy“þy öëöì“þ xy›yîû ¢î ¢›ëû ¦þyöìœy œyöì† Ð !îöìŸ¡ì „þöìîû vþzê¢öìîîû ¢›ëû Ð ”)†Åy þ™)‹y– „þyœ# þþ ™)‹yîû ¢›ëû „þœ„þy“þyöì„þ öìîŸ# ¦þyöìœy œyöì†Ð ”)†Åyþ™)‹yëû „þ“þ àþy„%þîû £ëû– “þyîû ¢yöìí ö¦þy† …yçëûyÐ xyîû „þyœ# þþ™)‹yöì“þ îy‹# šþyÝþyöì˜y îyvþü#îû ¢îyîû ¢yöìí– xy›yîû ¢î öíöì„þ ¦þyöìœy œyöì†Ð „þœ„þy“þyîû Birla Planetorium ö”öì…!ŠéÐ “þyîû ¢yöìí ›ëû”y˜– †Dyîû‡yÝþ xy›yîû ¦þyöìœy œy†yîû ‹yëû†yÐ

Ayushee Mukhopadhyay

20/20 Kolkata: The City of Joy

By Arin Dutta

Goto bochor goromer chutite ami maayer sathe Kolkata giechilam. Puro ek mas chilam. Roj kothao na kothao berate jetam. Kono din Science City, kokhono Eco Park, Birla Planetarium, Dakhineshawar. Science City rope way amar darun legeche. Science Cityr pro- gramme guloo khub bhalo chilo. Eco Park er toy train journey ta o khub enjoy korechi. Birla Planetarium e tara mondol dekhe planetser onek kichu shikhlam. Dahineshawarer Rani Rashmoni Mondir o amar darun legeche. Okhane toto, auto, ricksaw, local train e chore khub moja peyechi. Kolkata sotti ekta mojar city. Ki korey je ek mash kete gelo bujtai parini. Kolkatar ice-cream aar misti doi khub miss kori. Maa boleche abar porer bochor goromer chutitey Kolkata niey jabay. Tai din gunchi. Kobe abar jabo aro aro onek kichu dekhbo onek moja korbo.

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21/21 Amar Priyo BKPA Event

By Akanksha PurKayastha

Amar priyo BKPA event hoiche jokhon amra Broad- way Show gechi. Okhanae amra boroder ebong bond- huder sathe gechi. Jawar pothe amra snacks kheye- chi ebong amra games kelechi. Amra onnorokom show dekhechi jamon “Mat- idla” ebong onek kichu show-te amra beshe gaan ebong nach dekhechi. Shob kichur modhye anander chilo amader jol khabar (breakfast) bus e boshey. Tai amar shob theke priyo BKPA Event hoiche Broad- way Show.

Fond Memories of Kolkata By Biswajoy Mazumdar

Amar shobche bhalo Kolkatar memo- rie bhalo legeche jokhon ami Victoria Memorial ei geche. Amar khub moja hoyche proti deen ei ice cream kawa. Amar bhalo legeche amar thakur-da aar thakur-ma shonge kotha bolar. Aar jokhon recently Kolkata galam ami akta bhison boro mondir dekechi. Kub amar bhalo lage Kolkata jawar kintu khub gorom.

22/22 My Trip to Hong x‹y˜y ~„þ ö”öìŸ Kong Disneyland ¢%˜#“þy ›%ö…yþ™y•Äyëû ( xyëû%¡ì# ç xO!œîû àþy„%þîû›y) By Arush Kundu

I have always dreamed of ”#‡Åþ™í ‰þœöì“þ ‰þœöì“þ öŸöì¡ì– going to Disneyland, so I was ~œy› xy!› x‹y˜y ~„þ ö”ö쟖 very excited when my father öœyöì„þ îöìœ ~Ýþy ˜y!„þ told me that we were going ò¢îöìþ™öìëû!Šéîû ö”Ÿó– éôé on a vacation to Hong Kong ~£z ö”öìŸöì“þ ¢î þ™yçëûy ëyëû Disneyland. I was so excited I ˜y£zöì„þy þ™yçëûyîû öŸ¡ì felt like doing 20 jumping ~£z ö”öìŸöì“þ ~ö윖 éôé jacks that day. So I waited ëy ‰þyçëûy ëyëû ¢î£z ˜y!„þ ö›ö윖 and waited until the day Ýþy„þyéôéþ™ëû¢y– ö¢y˜yéôé ”y˜y– came. When the day had £öìîû„þ îû„þ› …y˜y!þ™˜y– come we reached Hong Šé!îîû ›öì“þy ‡îûîy!vþü ¢î ˜y£zöì„þy ö„þyíyç „þy!œ– ˜y£zöì„þy „þy”y– ˜y£zöì„þy ›y!Ýþ– ˜y£zöì„þy •)öìœyîy!œ– ¢îy£z îöìœ ~£z ö”öìŸöì“þ ¢î£z þ™yçëûy ëyëû– xy!› ö”!… ¢öìîîû ›yöìGþ ”%öìÝþy !‹!˜¢ þ˜y£zÐ ˜y£zöì„þy ›%öì… îy‚œy ¦þy¡ìy– Kong at night. Then the next ˜y£zöì„þy vþz¡Œ ¦þyöìœyîy¢y– morning, my dad had lots of ~£z ”%öìëûîû£z x¦þyî !˜öìëû work so I watched television. ”%ƒ… !Šéœ ›ö옖 Then the next morning my family went to Disneyland. “þy£zöì“þy xy!› îöì¢!Šéœy› When we reached Disney- ~„þœy ‡öìîûîû ö„þyöì˜Ð land, first my dad bought me “þyîûþ™öìîû ~£z BKPA-öì“þ ~öì¢ some caps. Then we started îy‚œy ¦þy¡ìy– ¦þyöìœyîy¢y– ”%£zéôé£z öþ™öìœ öŸöì¡ìÐ walking and walking. My family and I went on lots of îy‚œy öíöì„þ xö옄þ ”)öìîû rides, and then we went to ¢%”)îû ¢y†îû þ™yöìîû–éôé the castle. We also went to a ~îûy xy›yëû î¤y•öìœy ¢îy£z toy shop. At night, we ö„þy˜ ö¢ ›yëûyéôéöì“þyöìîûÐ watched the fireworks. I was so happy that I had a fantas- ~öì”îû öŠéöìvþü ö„þy˜ç !”˜ ”)öìîû ë!” ëy£z– tic adventure that I would ~öì”îû „þíy îû£zöìî ›ö옖 ¦%þœöìîy ˜yöì“þy ¦þy£zÐ have done 50 laps around my school gym. 23/23 Plainsboro Chahana Das Founder’s Day

By Krittika Dutta

“Hooray!” We are celebrating Plainsboro’s birthday. But did you ever wonder who made Plains- boro? I wish I was one of the per- sons to make Plainsboro.

Celebrating Founder’s Day is awesome especially when BKPA gets to perform dances and audi- ence applause.

At the end, we get to play on the rides and collect lot of toys. Anjali Mukhopadhyay

24/24 „þœ„þy“þy „þœ„þy“þy ¦þyîûöì“þîû !m“þ#ëû îvþü Ÿ£îû ~î‚ ¦þyîûöì“þîû ‰þyîû!Ýþ ›£y˜†îû# Ÿ£îû=!œîû ›öì•Ä ~„þ!ÝþÐ xy!› 2013 ¢yöìœ xy›yîû þ™!îûîyöìîûîû ¢yöìí „þœ„þy“þy !†öìëû!Šéœy›Ð xy›yîû !þ™!¢îû öŠéöìœîû !îöìëûîû ‹˜ÄÐ xy›yîû “þ…˜ ¢y“þ îŠéîû îëû¢Ð xy!› xy›yîû ”y”%– àþyÁ¿y– xö옄þ xyd#ëûéôéßþº‹öì˜îû ¢yöìí ¢›ëû „þy!Ýþöìëû!ŠéÐ xy!› xö옄þ îû„þ› ›yŠé ~î‚ !›!ÜT ö…öìëû!Šéœy›Ð xyîyîû ¢îöíöì„þ !²Ìëû £ö쉊é ö¦þÝþ!„þ ›yöìŠéîû šÊþy£z ~î‚ Rasgolla. xy!› þ™%„%þöìîûîû •yöìîû îyîyîû ¢yöìí ¢y£zöì„þœ ‰þy!œöìëû!Šéœy›Ð xy!› ¦þyîû“þ#ëû !›vþz!‹ëûy› !†öìëû!Šéœy›– öîŸ !„þŠ%é unique exhibits !†öìëû!Šéœy›– Elephant skele- ton, Egyption mummy about 4000 years old, National emblem, stone imprint of Buddhas foot, stone sculpture of Devi Durga, skulls of Indus Valley inhabitants etc. xy›îûy …%î Ÿ#‡Ê£z „þœ„þy“þy öîvþüyöì“þ ëyî ~î‚ ~£z ßþ¿,!“þ=öìœyöì„þ !šþöìîû þ™yîÐ xyîû&¡ì ¢y¤î%£z

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