Culture World

By International Publishing Centre

Culture World discusses Rabindranath Tagore-the first asian nobel prize winner in 1913 for his book Gitanjali...

it also discusses the life and works of Satyajit Ray,Mrinal Sen,Zainul Abedin,Peter Handke,Irrfan Pathan

it discusses on Indian Culture-Odissi Dance 

Satyajit Ray-the great film director,Mrinal Sen-the new wave film director, Zainul Abedin-the great Artist of Bangladesh

Peter Handke the nobel prize winner in literature in 2019

• Language: English
• Publisher: International Publishing Centre
• Release date: Sep 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393529217

International Publishing Centre

            Moumita Bahubalindra spent her childhood at historical place Moyna Garh. She had born in Kolkata. Her Educational qualification are. M.Sc, D.EL.ED., PhD . She has complited Diploma course in Computer from Webel and also complited the " Bachik Sudhakar" Degree in  Recitation. Her subject is anthropology. She is a Teacher, Poet and Journalist. She has written Poems, News, views in the different magazines and Newspapers.  She was Associated  with "Kalantar", " Jago Bangla", "Biswa Bangla", "Ekdin" etc newspapers. She has attended the program of F.M and "Ananya" program of D.D.-7. She has recited poems at 'Sishir Moncho', 'Nandan', "West Bengal Banbla Acadamy", 'MadhuSudan Moncho', 'InduMati Hall' of Jadavpur Univercity. She has published two Books namely " Samuderer Nil Swapna" "ChandraDhanaya". She was awarded with 'Vivekjoyti Samman' from Channel Vision, Sera Samman -2018 from All India Legal Forum of New Delhi, Kisore Kumar Award from Kolkata.    She has got a certificate from Asiatic Society regarding 'Manuscript Reading' and associated with many Social works.  She has own Magazine "The Tadanta News".She has working Experience from West Bengal State Health Projects. 

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CONTENTS  Page

Editor’s Desk  5

Culture World International  Advisors Team  6

Section1: Cover Story-Rabindranath Tagore

1.Rabindranath Tagore: The First Asian Nobel Prize Winner   

- Prof Unus Molla and Prof Dr A Rahman    8 

2. Tagore’s Worldwide View on Peace and Harmony  -Jyotirmaya Thakur  34 

3. A Thought  About  Tagore’s  ‘Geetanjali" -  Manaswita Thakur  44

4. Rabindra-Sangeet  as a  "Psychotherapy –Bhumika Ganguly  47

Section 2 : Tribute to Legends

5.Satyajit Ray:The Legend Film Director  -Prof Unus Molla  52

6. Mrinal Sen :The New Wave Film Director  -  Wasim Pervez  73

7. .Zainal Abedin :The Legend Artist  - Intajul Haque & ICC Team   77

Section-3 : Current Topic/Burning Issue

8 Culture  Manuscript At The Time of Corona  -Santasree Chaudhuri  84

9; How Digital  India  has  reshaped India-  Dr. Ayanjit Sen     88

10. Turbulent Times,Culture and Some Thoughts  Prof Ketaki Dutta    90

Section 4: Cultural Spotlight

11. Irrfan Khan:The Multi-Talented Film Actor -Dr T  Z  Abidi & ICC Team  95

Section 5 : Indian Culture

12. History of Oddisi Dance  - Shreya Chakraborty     103

Section 6 :International Cultute

13. Peter Handke : The Nobel Prize Winner in Literature in 2019    

Dr  M. Rahman  110

14.  Die Empty : Tedd Henri- ICC Team         114

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Section 7: Cultural Kaleidescope

15. Indian National Flag: Its Evolution and Adoption   -  Sekhar Chakrabarti   116

16. The  Globe trotting Namaste!  -     Tinku Rajeev Gupta  124

Section 8 :Creative Literature

17. Varanasi   -  Dr Sharmila Ray  127

18. I will embark to reach you    -Mrittika Das      130

19. KASHI"-The Luminosity!   -  Santasree  Chaudhuri  131

Section 9: Cultural Events/Festival

20. Eid ul Fitr -the Festival of Joy in the Time of Corona - Jawhar Sircar ,IAS   134

Section10:Learning Institute for Culture

21. Visva –Bharati University Founded by Rabindranath Tagore 

-S  Sarkar & ICC Team   137

Section 11: ICC  World

22. ICC - List of Activities  & Scope of Work  145 

23. ICC Membership Benefits  148

24 .ICC –Courses Offered  150

25. ICC-International Culture Festival-2020     151

26  ICC-International Arts Festival-2020  153 

27.Culture World Magazine –Advertisement & Publicity Tariff   154

Section12: Culture World Magazine –Advertisement/Publicity/Info

1 .WB Tourism Development Corporation Publicity Info       156

2. RBI Museum .Kolkata, Publicity  Info     157

3. United Nations -75 years  -Sustainable  Development Goals  158   

4. Rotary International  159

5 .Internaional Business Centre  160 

6 . International Publishing Centre      161 

ICC TEAM & CONTACT Us  162

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EDITOR’S DESK

The modern term culture is based on a term used by the ancient Roman orator Cicero in his Tusculanae Disputationes, where he wrote of a cultivation of the soul or "cultura animi ‘ using an agricultural metaphor for the development of a philosophical soul, understood teleologically as the highest possible ideal for human development. 

Culture (/ˈkʌltʃər/) is an umbrella term which encompasses the social  behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

Humans acquire culture through the learning  processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies.

In the words of anthropologist  , E.B. Tylor, it is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.Culture is the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time"

The objective of Culture World  magazine is  " Loves culture,Shares Cultures,and Connect People across the world  through  Culture ...

We ,the culture world team is inspird by the poem Where the mind is Free without Fear of Great Poet Rabindranath agore –The First Asian Nobel Prize Winner in 1913 for :Gitanjali" in Literature....

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

In this magazine, Our Team has chosen a number of diverse topics on Culture ,so that each reader can enjoy the contents of this magazine .

Hope that every reader  will love our magazine Culture World as a platform to exchange cultures across the world . We should love and respect the culture of people of each country .Exchange of Cultural Values will create peace in the World.....

With lots of Love ,Regards and Happiness,

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Prof. Unus Molla, Chief  Editor , Culture World

Culture World International AdvisorsTeam

1. Dr A.Rahman, Bangladesh

2. Robin Findlay , UK

3. Ms J Heemstra  USA

4. Ms Najmoon , Germany

5. S Ray, USA

6. G.Talukder, Italy

7. S Ahmed ,USA

8.  B. Chakraborty, Canada

9. K   M  Safar  A ,Singapore

10. Dr T Z Abidi , Malaysia

11. Swami Nikheleswaranda. India

12. Santasree Chaudhuri ,India

13. K  Islam ,Bangladesh

14. S Sarkar, Bahrain

15. Goutam De ,India

16. B  Mallick , UK

17. Dr S Roychoudhury,India

18  Unus Molla ,India

19  A  Akash, Australia

20. Ms I .Gumowska, Poland

1. COVER STORY

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Rabindranath Tagore

Santiniketan

Rabindranath Tagore : The First Asian Nobel Prize Winner

Prof Unus Molla and Prof Dr A Rahman

Rabindranath Tagore  borned  on 7th May’1861.,He was also known by his sobriquets Gurudev,Kabiguru,and  Biswakabi.  He was a Bengali  poet, writer, music composer, and painter from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse of Gitanjali .

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He became in 1913 the first Asian  to win the Nobel  Prize in LiteratureTagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his elegant prose and magical poetry remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as the Bard of Bengal.

A Brahmo Hindu from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Burdwan District  and Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-oldAt the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha (Sun Lion), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics 

By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist,]he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's  Amar Shonar Bangla. The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.

Family History:

The original surname of the Tagores were Kushari. They were Rarhi Brahmins and originally belonged to a village named Kush in the district named Burdwan in West Bengal. Rabindra-biographer Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya wrote in the second page of the first volume of his book named Rabindrajibani O Rabindra Sahitya Prabeshika that, The Kusharis were the descendants of Deen Kushari, the son of Bhatta Narayana; Deen was granted a village named Kush (in Burdwan zilla) by Maharaja Kshitisura, he became its chief and came to be known as Kushari.

Early life: 1861–1878:

The youngest of thirteen surviving children, Tagore (nicknamed Rabi) was born on 7 May 1861 in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta to Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875).

The last two days a storm has been raging, similar to the description in my song—Jhauro jhauro borishe baridhara  [... amidst it] a hapless, homeless man drenched from top to toe standing on the roof of his steamer [...] the last two days I have been singing this song over and over [...] as a result the pelting sound of the intense rain, the wail of the wind, the sound of the heaving Gorai River, [...] have assumed a fresh life and found a new language and I have felt like a major actor in this new musical drama unfolding before me.

— Letter to Indira Devi.

Tagore was raised mostly by servants; his mother had died in his early childhood and his father travelled widely.The Tagore family was at the forefront of the Bengal renaissance. They hosted the publication of literary magazines; theatre and recitals of Bengali and Western classical music featured there regularly. Tagore's father invited several professional Dhrupad musicians to stay in the house and teach Indian classical music to the children.Tagore's oldest brother Dwijendranath was a philosopher and poet. Another brother, Satyendranath, was the first Indian appointed to the elite and formerly all-European Indian Civil Service. Yet another brother, Jyotirindranath, was a musician, composer, and playwright. His sister Swarnakumari became a novelist Jyotirindranath's wife Kadambari Devi, slightly older than Tagore, was a dear friend and powerful influence. Her abrupt suicide in 1884, soon after he married, left him profoundly distraught for years.

Tagore largely avoided classroom schooling and preferred to roam the manor or nearby Bolpur and Panihati, which the family visited  His brother Hemendranath tutored and physically conditioned him—by having him swim the Ganges or trek through hills, by gymnastics, and by practising judo and wrestling.

He learned drawing, anatomy, geography and history, literature, mathematics, Sanskrit, and English—his least favourite subject .Tagore loathed formal education—his scholarly travails at the local Presidency College spanned a single day. Years later he held that proper teaching does not explain things; proper teaching stokes curiosity:

After his upanayan (coming-of-age rite) at age eleven, Tagore and his father left Calcutta in February 1873 to tour India for several months, visiting his father's Santiniketan estate and Amritsar before reaching the Himalayan hill station of Dalhousie. There Tagore read biographies, studied history, astronomy, modern science, and Sanskrit, and examined the classical poetry of Kālidāsa. During his 1-month stay at Amritsar in 1873 he was greatly influenced by melodious gurbani and nanak bani being sung at Golden Temple for which both father and son were regular visitors. He mentions about this in his My Reminiscences (1912)

The golden temple of Amritsar comes back to me like a dream. Many a morning have I accompanied my father to this Gurudarbar of the Sikhs in the middle of the  lake. There the sacred chanting resounds continually. My father, seated amidst the throng of worshippers, would sometimes add his voice to the hymn of praise, and finding a stranger joining in their devotions they would wax enthusiastically cordial, and we would return loaded with the sanctified offerings of sugar crystals and other sweets.

He wrote 6 poems relating to Sikhism and a number of articles in Bengali child magazine about Sikhism.

Tagore returned to Jorosanko and completed a set of major works by 1877, one of them a long poem in the Maithili style of Vidyapati. As a joke, he claimed that these were the lost works of newly discovered 17th-century Vaiṣṇava poet Bhānusiṃha.Regional experts accepted them as the lost works of the fictitious poet. He debuted in the short-story genre in Bengali withBhikharini (The Beggar Woman).Published in the same year, Sandhya Sangit (1882) includes the poem Nirjharer Swapnabhanga (The Rousing of the Waterfall).

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Rabindranath Tagore & his Wife

Shelaidaha: 1878–1901:

Because Debendranath wanted his son to become a barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878. He stayed for several months at a house that the Tagore family owned near Brighton and Hove, in Medina Villas; in 1877 his nephew and niece—Suren and Indira Devi, the children of Tagore's brother Satyendranath—were sent together with their mother, Tagore's sister-in-law, to live with him.

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Shelaidaha Kuthi Bari

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He briefly read law at University College London, but again left school, opting instead for independent study of Shakespeare's plays Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra and the Religio Medici of Thomas Browne. Lively English, Irish, and Scottish folk tunes impressed Tagore, whose own tradition of Nidhubabu-authored kirtans and tappas and Brahmo hymnody was subdued. In 1880 he returned to Bengal degree-less, resolving to reconcile European novelty with Brahmo traditions, taking the best from each.

After returning to Bengal, Tagore regularly published poems, stories, and novels. These had a profound impact within Bengal itself but received little national attention. In 1883 he married 10-year-old Mrinalini Devi, born Bhabatarini, 1873–1902 (this was a common practice at the time). They had five children, two of whom died in childhood.

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Boat  at Padma River in Banagladesh

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In 1890 Tagore began managing his vast ancestral estates in Shelaidaha (today a region of Bangladesh); he was joined there by his wife and children in 1898. Tagore released his Manasi poems (1890), among his best-known work. As Zamindar Babu, Tagore criss-crossed the Padma River in command of the Padma, the luxurious family