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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।
Read moreFor my research purposes, it was important for me to incorporate eminent Dalit writers from Bengal who are yet to be recognized by many.
Read moreThe eminent Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), on his visit to China during 1924 delivered some very important and these lectures have been collected as Talks in China (1924).
Read moreCalcutta Comparatists1919 presents to you the 78th lecture of the CC1919 lecture series. Though this is indeed a hard time for all of us and we are trying to stay calm and cope up with the situation, but for our team, Calcutta Comparatists 1919, this is also a very confusing and exhausting time.
Read moreCalcutta Comparatists1919 presents to you the 77th lecture of the CC1919 lecture series. This time we hosted Dr.
Read moreCalcutta Comparatists1919 invites you to the 76th lecture of the CC1919 lecture series. Prof. Didier Coste, Professeur Émérite de Littérature Comparée, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Fellow of JNIAS-JNU, New Delhi, 2017 & 2018, spoke on " Heteroglossia in Cosmopolitan Perspective: Jhumpa Lahiri’s leap across to Italian”.
Read more' 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।।
As a PhD Candidate, it is always wonderful to have opportunities like this, where we can share our research and our evolving ideas and get feedback and comments from our peers. It was wonderful to be able to Skype in across time zones, and give a talk in an Indian university. I think academia reinscribes a lot of problematic colonial relations, by keeping institutions in the “West” isolated from institutions in other places. I think it is important to have dialogues across these divides, and so presenting my work scholars in India, while residing in the US, felt like both an interesting and important opportunity.
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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