Satyanusanndhan :Coolection of SIx plays in Assamese

My new book Satyanusandhan (সত্যানুসন্ধান), a collection of plays has reached the store.

It is Distributed by: Bandhav  ,Panbazar (বান্ধৱ, পাণবজাৰ)

Interested readers can go through the book and will be obliged if you give your valuable feedback (Whatever the cynicism, criticism it may be please do discuss in open)

Few of our readers are not acquainted with reading ASSAMESE drama (I don’t claim to be a master craft though) but reading plays can be a enchanting experience.

Why this new book?

“We have entered a post truth age, searching for truth has become obscured idea

Post truth phenomenon has entered the world of performance art so as in plays  

Has it hindered the importance of written word (or playwright as a whole?)

That makes documentation of this search for truth (সত্যানুসন্ধান), necessity.

Name :Satyanusandhan

Page no : 208

Price :180 only 

It contains three full length Play

one each -One act Play ,Children's Play and a Street Play

 

Publisher :Bhargavi Prakashan ,Assam contact :bhargaviassam@gmail.com

Distributor :Bandhav ,Panbazar,Guwahati , conatact bandhavpublication@gmail.com

Choking air and us

I live in Meerut, some 60 km away from Delhi and I was just wondering that age is taking toll on my health. Since last four days there is a general sense of fatigue, breathlessness, sense of not being well and slight cough. As temperature is changing a little children are also coughing and sneezing.  On top of it the children are also waking up alternately at night, crying and coughing.  After helping them to sleep again there is a feeling of suffocation in the air that is not relived even after opening the door. Then we have to wake up early in the morning for school and work feeling lethargic for the whole next day. This has become a vicious cycle.

On the top, it has been all smoky and smoggy even inside our house. Not to speak of outside.

 I could hardly see anything in the morning; in the noon forget the evening or the night. I could see every children coughing as they are waiting for school bus. But temperature is not that low as it seems in the photographs .  

 A layer of mist covered my car window; I wiped it clean only to find a layer of black dirt being erased.

Frosted dirt we are breathing in

Are these the air we are breathing in! I asked my young students –they are also feeling the same.

Then the pollution news started pouring in and there was some paradoxical relive. Hey may be its not my age, anyway I am never that old.

Another paradox may be my car, my refrigerator my life style is contributing to these.

Then comes today’s TOI head line ….DELHI_YOU_ARE_ KILLING_ ME

May God bless us #

Cover Story and an interview in The Sentinel's Mélange

Munin Barkotoky Literary Award 2016 Ceromony

Munin Barkotoky Literary Aard 2016 to Singhdwar

Citation

award ceremony

News paper coverage Assam Tribune

award ceremony

SOME DADA ART

SOME DADA ART

While trying to fictionalize the spirit of DADAISm I came across various famous DADA art. Though I am not from art academia I Thought I should share few of them with my reader .Now a day’s everything is available in internet , but all information do not reach all user ,hence this effort 

Cut with the Kitchen Knife by Hannah Höch  

One of the initial painting that resulted in the DADA movement. Hannah Höch, was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or, photomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain

Perhaps the most famous and controversial Dada artwork of all was Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. It consisted only of a urinal set on its back, but it raised a powerful question: “What exactly is worthy to be called art?” After all, this work of art is just an ugly toilet. But more than just being unappealing to look at, Fountain also attacked the idea that art takes time and effort to make. Duchamp called it a “readymade” piece. . . something we call “found art” today.

Also read : DADAISM fictionalization

The language dilemma

Few days ago I saw this advertisement in “Times of India” asking for scholar to translate Tamil Classic Thirukkural. The Thirukkural is a classical Tamil literature authored by poet Thiruvalluvar. ….

The problem of vernacular language often troubles me. To me A Tamil body putting the effort to translate their classic into language like Dongri, Santhali or Bodo is a big step forward.
We can agree that English is a killer language and globalization annihilating a small languages one at a time…One language, every forthright to be precise  
For those who think in mother tongue it pains when we observe many  words are de facto not in use, not understood my children be on the verse of extinction.

 Language scientist and psychiatrist all over the world have said it over and over again that-initial learning language should be best done in Mother tongue…that we often ignore.
But still English is a very important language, we cannot ignore in this so called modern life...in fact we can take help of this for betterment of smaller languages may be in the form of translations ,once a work is translated into English readership increases many fold across language and continent . For survival and propagation of our tale across the globe we can’t deny the importance of English language. But on second thought many things can be lost in translation …for example as Assamese, Bengali, Oriya are such interrelated language that best result are expected if it gets a direct translation. This is just one example, all languages in the South East Asia are interrelated, so why we letting the original ethos to be distorted when we have option other than English when it come to translation.

That’s why translation amongst regional languages plays a very important role in propagation of vernacular language.
This project is a much welcomed project by Central Institute of Classical Tamil. Hope their project becomes a success and after translation they take the completed project to the ethnic people also. We see very less such language projects, but we need many of them.

Work in progress: Singhadwar re imagined by a creative group

Filmmaker , artist, photographer recreating scene from Singhadwar 

      Parinisha searching her painting

   Raindrenshed Aditya  searching for a story

 Aditya imagination in artists pencil

  Aditya imagination in artists pencil : Final work to be incoprporated in the promotional video

     The final product :ADITYA searching a love story 

The Filmmakers imagination through this promotional video :feel free to watch and comment