Nineteenth Century Bengali Women's Poetry - Views & Perceptions on Social Issues
In 19th century Bengal, it was very hard to correlate women as a poet or as a writer.
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Calcutta Comparatists 1919
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Calcutta Comparatists 1919 is proud to present to you its online Biography Series, which is based on the idea of "One India, Plural India". In this series, we will recall those who have expressed their strong views on Indian culture and literature through their writings long before independence. In this way, we will be able to increase our interaction by remembering and practicing the lives and creations of these eminent scholars and writers of different Indian languages. This biography series aims to promote multi-cultural and multi-lingual dialogue among people from all walks of life.
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হোমেন বরগোহাঞিকে যেমন দেখেছি
সময়টা বোধহয় ১৯৮৩ বা ১৯৮৪ সন হবে।দীৰ্ঘ দিন অসম আন্দোলনের ফলে স্কুল কলেজ বন্ধ থাকার পর আবার শিক্ষানুষ্ঠানগুলিতে নতুন করে পড়াশোনা শুরু হয়েছে ।গণেশ গুড়ির কাছে হেংরা বাড়ির সরকারি আবাসনে গুয়াহাটি কমার্স কলেজের বাংলা বিভাগের অধ্যাপিকা ভারতী চক্রবর্তী থাকতেন। আমার সেখানে নিয়মিত যাওয়া আসা ছিল। একদিন পিসির কাছে (ভারতী চক্রবর্তী)শুনলাম পিসিদের ঠিক উপরের ফ্ল্যাটে হোমেন বরগোহাঞি থাকেন।
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“জীবনের ধন কিছুই যাবে না ফেলা”। একটুকরো কাগজেরও যে আনন্দঘন মূল্য শৈশবের কাছে, তেমনই আমাদের জীবনে সমস্ত ‘তুচ্ছে’র সেই মূল্য। আবার বৃহৎ সমাজের কাছেও সমস্ত তুচ্ছ জীবনের সেই মূল্য। যা মনে রয়ে যায় তাই স্মৃতি, স্মৃতিই আখর। এই আখর দিয়েই মানুষের চিন্তাবিশ্ব তৈরি হয়। এই চিন্তাবিশ্ব একক মানুষের হলেও তা আসলে বৃহৎ কাঠামোর সঙ্গে কেমন সুতোয় বাঁধা। তুচ্ছ মানুষের জীবনের সমস্ত তুচ্ছ আখর আসলে একের নয় বহুর বহু তুচ্ছের সঙ্গে সমান ও স্বতন্ত্র।
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Conversations on the go: Thinking about social lives of roads in India
Calcutta Comparatists 1919 invites you to the 90th online lecture of the CC19 lecture series. We are very happy to announce that Professor Sadan Jha, Associate Professor, Centre for the Social Studies agreed to deliver an invited lecture in our forum.
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Being And/ Or Becoming: The Dalit Feminist Way
Calcutta Comparatists 1919 presents to you the 89th online lecture of the CC1919 lecture series.
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Creole Indias and the Archipelago of Fragments: Transoceanic and littoral memory circuits
Calcutta Comparatists 1919 brings to you the 88th online lecture of the CC19 lecture series.
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' নতুন যৌবনেরই দূত’ একদল নব্য গবেষকের আন্তরিক ও উষ্ণ আহ্বানে সাড়া দিয়ে বক্তা হিসাবে উপস্থিত হয়েছিলাম এই আসরে - বিস্বজোড়া মহামারীর সংকট লগ্নে। সুন্দর ও সুচারু সেই আয়োজনে মুগ্ধ হয়েছি। নিত্য নতুন বিষয়ের চমৎকার পশরা সাজিয়ে প্রতিনিয়ত তাঁর অভিনব সব মননশীল বক্তৃতার আয়োজন করে চলেছেন। আন্তরিক শুভেচ্ছা জানাই তাঁদের এই মহতী উদ্যোগের। দিন দিন শ্রীবৃদ্ধি ঘটুক ‘Calcutta Comparatists 1919’ বৌদ্ধিক গোষ্ঠীর।।
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I believe Calcutta Comparatists to be an important initiative for interdisciplinary scholars. It is crucial to cultivate dialogue and exchanges between researchers at all stages of their careers and this group is doing this very well. I was approached by them to give a lecture on my historical research on material histories, and I had a wonderful experience delivering the talk as well as engaging in fruitful discussions with the organizers and attendees. I look forward to the future events and talks organized by Calcutta Comparatists.
The Calcutta Comparatists 1919 are a group of enthusiastic students and research scholars who have come together during the pandemic to bring a series of talks/ lectures on wide ranging topics from literature and culture studies. I was one such speaker and must say that the entire program was wonderfully organized. My best wishes to this energetic bunch of young people as they forge ahead.
It has been an excellent experience to be associated with the Calcutta Comparatists 1919. This forum of sincere, talented and young scholars of literatures and humanities from universities and research institutes across the world has been recently engaged in exploring multiple intersecting trends of the contemporary studies in social sciences and culture. The ongoing lecture series organized by CC1919, with its very distinctive nature, is a novel and highly successful way to focus and continue dialogues on several areas of research interests in humanities. I feel myself really fortunate to be linked with the collective effort of this forum to interrogate and change the paradigms, and wish it every success.
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