Oglam

01/01/2024

A new page beckons,
A new leaf whispers,
A new promise brews a new tale,
While the old year has turned pale.

A few flags flutter,
Yester-glories stutter,
New hands hold your growing faith
Older hearts warm your inner strength.

Year anew soars super high hopes,
And my good wish, with you, elopes.

Regards
Janardan 2024

03/09/2023

RAMAYAN: Fractured, Fixed & Foretold, Next performance in The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata...

Let us know if you are interested to host the show. It’s in English, interspersed with folk songs with Multimedia presentation. It is eco-feministic in approach. The performance is Light, Portable and Cheap... The three conditions that Badal Sirkar had proposed.

24/08/2023

A great news like a pleasant breeze.

It was and is always great to work with Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti. I salute Anjan Bose da's vision and mission. The National Award is faith being reestablished... It is celebration time. Wish to congratulate my co-actors and the entire team... Bravo!!!!

Director duo Rajdeep Paul and Sarmistha Maiti’s experimental film ‘Kalkokkho’ won the Best Bengali Film award at the 69th National Film Awards. The Be

09/08/2023

My article on Chaitanya's contribution to theatre.

However, if we sketch a detailed picture of the expanse and grandeur of Vaiṣṇava Nāṭyalīlā by referring to Śrī Śrī Caitanya Bhāgavat composed by Vrindāvandās, Kṛṣṇadās Kavirāj’s Śrī Śrī Caitanyacaritāmṛta, Jayānand’s Caitanyamangal and Locandās...

17/06/2023

In an International conference on Ramayana in South East Asia organized by IGNCA, New Delhi. Sharing frames with the Cambodian Reamker dancers and masks. The green mask is Ravana's mask, white mask is Hanuman's. Was involved in their rehearsal. Also worked with the Mudra dance group of Kolkata. Moderated the two day conference.

08/07/2020

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09/05/2020

This month being Kobi Pokkho, we have promised to engage in Tagore's work, consistently encouraging everyone to read and be with Tagore's creations. Here are a few more renditions from our group members and well wishers. It also includes a few poems on Tagore by other poets.

08/05/2020

An evening post on Rabindranath Tagore from OGLAM. Part 2 of our homage to the Great poet, philosopher and polymath

08/05/2020

A tribute to Tagore from OGLAM, Bally. We have learnt that 'Life is beautiful' and 'Humanity is the only treasure'. We celebrate both through Tagore, like Amol from Dakghar we have kept our windows open... peep in for a while. See and Share.

06/05/2020

Hayavadana: The Head or Tail of it!
Girish Karnad came and met us before we started our rehearsal. His only caution was ‘Do whatever you wish to do… but let it be my play.’ We edited the text, but did not change Sankhababu’s (Sankha Ghosh, Poet) words at all. We made the play site-specific and used the driveway area and the passage to the auditorium. In the porte-cochere, we had a sculptor making heads with clay, there we started the introduction, then moved all the way to the space singing songs. At the end the audience would play a puzzle game with heads and bodies. We went mad with ideation.

06/05/2020

The second compilation of some fine people, sharing their experiences with touch