Durgapur
Municipal Corporation celebrated the 150th Birth Anniversary in a
pomp and grandeur manner.
Durgapur Municipal Corporation celebrated the 150th
birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda in a gala way in Srijani
Auditorium with grandeur on 4thFebruary 2012 . Crowds of
enthusiastic people attended the programme. Smt Sunanda Ghosh the renowned
singer from Kolkata, Shri Biplab Chattopadhyay and Shri Goutam Dutta of this
City presented devotional and patriotic songs. Besides Debesh Thakur, the renowned
elocutionist of Burdwan performed his Sruti Natak ‘Param Purush Sri Ramkrishna’ and bemused the audiences.
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| Mayor Rathin Roy is lighting the candle |
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| The group of Shrutyonupras. |
Special mention goes to Shrutyonupras
team who presented the ‘Abriti Alekshya’ “Ebar Phirao More”
on the beliefs and feelings of Swami Vivekananda. It was composed and directed
by Shri Goutam Chakraborty – the famous elocutionist of Durgapur. The whole
programme enchanted the audiences in the Srijani
Auditorium, City Center. Durgapur There was a pin drop of silence in the hall
when they all performed the Alekshya. They were 14 in all and everybody
performed to the excel. Mayor Rathin Roy specially thanked Shri Goutam
Chakrabaorty for his incredible script writing, team work and direction which
really enkindled the people more to rethink on the philosophy of Swami
Vivekananda even now. The melodious tune of Dipankar Chakaborty who presented
the relevant devotional and patriotic songs heightened much the whole programme
of Shrutyonupras. Last year Goutam Chakraborty celebrated the 150th
Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore throughout the year through various
programme in various places of Durgapur. In honour of Tagore he released a CD
of 150 poems “Ekdin Shatabarsha Pare” by his students from the age group
of six to sixty which gathered much reputation of this famous elocutionist. He
has plans to celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami
Vivekananda through various programme and the most attractive is the Drama by
his kid artists on Swami Vibekanantda’s child life ‘Naam Jar Bile’
written by Shri Arati Kumar Bose, the famous writer of this City. The programme
was ended by the Nrittya Alekshya on the Philosophy of Swamiji by the
students of Durgapur Children’s Academy .
Rathin Roy, Mayor, Durgapur Municipal Corporation says,
“Last year we have celebrated the 150th Birth Anniversary of
Rabindranath Tagore and Acharya Prafullya Chandra Roy in this auditorium
through various programme. Today we are celebrating the 150th birth
anniversary of the legend Swami Vivekananda. He needs no introduction for his
is a household name in India. Swamiji was one of the greatest spiritual leaders
of the modern world, a great lover of humanity whose unconditional love
extended to all people without any distinctions of caste, class, creed, race,
region or religion. In this auspicious occasion we are releasing one book in
honour of the spiritual monk Swami Vivekananda as Bahurupe Sammukhe Tomar.
Earlier we have published other two books ‘Ami Tomaderi Lok’in honour of
Rabindra Nath Tagore and Srishti Sukher Ullase in memory of Kaji Najrul
Islam. ”
He honoured all the famous writers of this valuable book
who were present in the auditorium on that day and without whose contribution
it was not possible for DMC (Durgapur Municipal Corporation) to publish such a
worthy and informative book and he especially thanked Shri Ashoke Majumdar for
his valuable involvement. Some rare pictures of Swamiji in the august
convention of Chicago which was itself a vindication to the world of the
wonderful doctrine really enriched the book.
“We heartily want that more and more people of this city
come and take active part in various cultural activity. We want the
manifestation of the budding stars of this industrial complex and we always
extend our help in this noble mission and this center has been set up with this
aim only.”- says Mayor further.
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