Tripura Assembly’s collective devotion to Rabindranath Tagore — reflected in its passing of a private member’s resolution that proposed to rename Agartala airport after Asia’s first Nobel laureate — has put one of India’s greatest literary icons in an unsavoury controversy in the 150th year of his birth.
On June 29, Congress legislator Sudip Roy Barman had proposed during the just-concluded budget session of the Assembly that Agartala airport be renamed after Tagore. Chief minister Manik Sarkar immediately welcomed the suggestion and said it was a “very good proposal”.
Next day, the matter was tabled in the Assembly in the form of a private member’s resolution and passed by the House almost unanimously.
However, Bijay Kumar Hrangkhawal, the president of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura and a former rebel leader, refused to support the resolution on the ground that he had earlier pleaded for renaming of the airport after Tripura’s last king, Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya.
Full report here Telegraph
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Tripura urges UN to adopt Bengali as official language
Tripura has urged the UN to introduce Bengali as one of the world body’s official languages, in the run up to the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
‘The assembly during its just concluded budget session passed a unanimous resolution urging the UN to make the Bengali language as one of the official languages,’ assembly secretary Subhas Bhattacharjee told IANS.
He said the assembly resolution was sent Thursday to the UN secretary general through the union human resource development (HRD) ministry.
‘On the momentous occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Tripura assembly resolves to urge the UN to introduce Bengali language as one of its official languages.’
Seeking attention of the union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, Bhattacharjee in his letter to the HRD ministry secretary said: ‘The relations of the internationally acclaimed bard with the then kings of Tripura were extremely close and the poet had visited the state as many as seven times between 1899 and 1926.’
Full report here Calcutta Tube
‘The assembly during its just concluded budget session passed a unanimous resolution urging the UN to make the Bengali language as one of the official languages,’ assembly secretary Subhas Bhattacharjee told IANS.
He said the assembly resolution was sent Thursday to the UN secretary general through the union human resource development (HRD) ministry.
‘On the momentous occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Tripura assembly resolves to urge the UN to introduce Bengali language as one of its official languages.’
Seeking attention of the union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, Bhattacharjee in his letter to the HRD ministry secretary said: ‘The relations of the internationally acclaimed bard with the then kings of Tripura were extremely close and the poet had visited the state as many as seven times between 1899 and 1926.’
Full report here Calcutta Tube
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Tagore loved northeast and it loves him back
It is yesterday once more in the northeast cultural calendar as the region brushes the dust off its ties with Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who was recognised as a "great poet" by the then king of Tripura at a time when few others did 128 years ago.
Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam and Manipur have planned year-long celebrations starting Sunday in the run up to the 150th birth anniversary of the poet who penned famous dance-dramas, songs and novels during his visits to the region, especially his favourite haunts Agartala and Shillong.
"Tagore took skilled weavers from Assam to Bengal to develop and popularise weaving. He inducted Manipuri dance teachers in Santiniketan. He also sought the assistance of erstwhile Tripura kings for scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose," said researcher Pannalal Roy.
Full report here Times of India
Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam and Manipur have planned year-long celebrations starting Sunday in the run up to the 150th birth anniversary of the poet who penned famous dance-dramas, songs and novels during his visits to the region, especially his favourite haunts Agartala and Shillong.
"Tagore took skilled weavers from Assam to Bengal to develop and popularise weaving. He inducted Manipuri dance teachers in Santiniketan. He also sought the assistance of erstwhile Tripura kings for scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose," said researcher Pannalal Roy.
Full report here Times of India
Monday, March 22, 2010
Nagaland poetry competition celebrates region's writers
The 5th Nagaland Poetry competition 2010 in celebration of 175 years of Assam Rifles and 25 years of the Poetry Society India, organized by coordinator North East Region (NER) Poetry Society India (PSI) and Assam Rifles took place on Monday at 16th Assam Rifles with state Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio and Nyeiwang Konyak, Minister of School Education and SCERT gracing the events as chief guest and the guest of honour respectively.
The theme of competition is “Friends of the Hill People” and a total of 2,346 entries were received, out of which 1127 were male entries and 1219 female entries. The ten top winners of the poetry competition recited their poems. Addressing the gathering, Rio lauded the Assam Rifles for completing glorious 175 years of existence and for creating many memorable milestones and also building trust with the north east people. Congratulating the Assam Rifles for the service to the people, he said that the AR not only provided security to the people, but were also involved in carrying out many welfare programme for the people. On the AR slogan “Friends of Hill people”, the chief minister said that the tribal people, especially the Nagas were straight forward and stated “If you are his friend, he will give his life for you and if you are his enemy, he will take your life”. The chief minister also said that the Assam Rifles should live with their slogan Friends of the Hill people in the years to come and wished them a bright future in service of the nation and for the people of Northeast.
On the poetry competition, he said that literature and music played an important role in promoting peace in the world and encouraged the budding poets and award winners to use their God given talents to the fullest. He further congratulated all the award winners and released the book The Voices of North East Poets. The chief minister also felicitated six poets of the region - awards winners Mamang Dai from Arunachal Pradesh, professor Streamlet Dkhar from Meghalaya, Head of Khasi department NEHU Shillong, professor L. Khiangte from Mizoram, head of Mizo department from Mizoram University, Bijay Bantawa from Sikkim, Editor of Snowline Magazine, Kalyan Gupta from Tripura, director of art and culture, Tripura and Raghu Leishangtiem from Manipur, Seike Academy.
Full report here Nagaland Post
The theme of competition is “Friends of the Hill People” and a total of 2,346 entries were received, out of which 1127 were male entries and 1219 female entries. The ten top winners of the poetry competition recited their poems. Addressing the gathering, Rio lauded the Assam Rifles for completing glorious 175 years of existence and for creating many memorable milestones and also building trust with the north east people. Congratulating the Assam Rifles for the service to the people, he said that the AR not only provided security to the people, but were also involved in carrying out many welfare programme for the people. On the AR slogan “Friends of Hill people”, the chief minister said that the tribal people, especially the Nagas were straight forward and stated “If you are his friend, he will give his life for you and if you are his enemy, he will take your life”. The chief minister also said that the Assam Rifles should live with their slogan Friends of the Hill people in the years to come and wished them a bright future in service of the nation and for the people of Northeast.
On the poetry competition, he said that literature and music played an important role in promoting peace in the world and encouraged the budding poets and award winners to use their God given talents to the fullest. He further congratulated all the award winners and released the book The Voices of North East Poets. The chief minister also felicitated six poets of the region - awards winners Mamang Dai from Arunachal Pradesh, professor Streamlet Dkhar from Meghalaya, Head of Khasi department NEHU Shillong, professor L. Khiangte from Mizoram, head of Mizo department from Mizoram University, Bijay Bantawa from Sikkim, Editor of Snowline Magazine, Kalyan Gupta from Tripura, director of art and culture, Tripura and Raghu Leishangtiem from Manipur, Seike Academy.
Full report here Nagaland Post
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Kakborok poet awarded
Kishore Mura Singh has been awarded this year for his literary works. Tribal Research Institute of Tripura conferred him the honour ceremonially recently. Dipankar Sen Gupta of Eastern Panorama recently met up with this noted poet and speaking about literature, Mr. Singh says, “Sometimes inferior complex even serves as a guiding force.”
A farmer by profession and now aged thirty-five years old, Kishore Mura Singh is one of the leading poets of Tripura’s second major language, a Mongoloid dialect called Kakborok and has been penning down his thoughts for the last seventeen years.
He says, “We have much to write about, sorrow, pleasure, nature and of course politics and the plight of the oppressed. Our traditional culture has a rich treasure of oral literature but all these are either in the form of tales or songs. The practices of Jhum or shifting cultivation and hunting as the way of life of the Kakborok speaking people have made it such that they were once solely dependent on the cultivation at hilly slopes and hunting.
Full report here Eastern Panorama
He says, “We have much to write about, sorrow, pleasure, nature and of course politics and the plight of the oppressed. Our traditional culture has a rich treasure of oral literature but all these are either in the form of tales or songs. The practices of Jhum or shifting cultivation and hunting as the way of life of the Kakborok speaking people have made it such that they were once solely dependent on the cultivation at hilly slopes and hunting.
Full report here Eastern Panorama
Friday, March 5, 2010
Book on India role in Bangla war
A book, Sonali Egal O Udbastu Samay, by leading Bangladeshi writer Haroon Habib was launched by Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar at the Agartala Press Club in the city last night.
The book, based on Habib’s personal reminiscences as an actual liberation fighter and journalist during the 1971 Bangladesh War, was released at a gala function during the ongoing Agartala book fair. The author, Habib, was the guest of honour at the function.
Published from Dhaka, the 318-page Bengali novel was described by critics here as the first major literary work that depicted the 1971 liberation war in its true perspective.
The speakers at the function said for the first time in literature, the novel presented an undaunted recognition to India’s unequivocal support to Bangladesh’s independence struggle.Sarkar described the novel as an unbiased portrayal of history and praised Habib as a committed humanitarian author, a creative personality and journalist.
Full report here Telegraph
The book, based on Habib’s personal reminiscences as an actual liberation fighter and journalist during the 1971 Bangladesh War, was released at a gala function during the ongoing Agartala book fair. The author, Habib, was the guest of honour at the function.
Published from Dhaka, the 318-page Bengali novel was described by critics here as the first major literary work that depicted the 1971 liberation war in its true perspective.
The speakers at the function said for the first time in literature, the novel presented an undaunted recognition to India’s unequivocal support to Bangladesh’s independence struggle.Sarkar described the novel as an unbiased portrayal of history and praised Habib as a committed humanitarian author, a creative personality and journalist.
Full report here Telegraph
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