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Article; Tapas Sarkar: Li ke other indigenous people, Rajbanshi community is a mass tolerant indigenous and ethnically oriented community which has been, geographically and demographically, residing in different areas in diverse situations. As the four states of India- Bengal, Assam, Bihar, and Meghalaya are identified as Rajbanshi resident regions, and simultaneously the same community is also dwelling in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal with minimal existence. Whithersoever they are living, they are confronting extreme identity crisis being divided by political and geographical conditions. With this context the Rajbanshi community of the six districts of Bengal (Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and, especially Malda, Dakshin Dinajpur, and Uttar Dinajpur), are currently undergoing through traditional, cultural, social, and historical identity crisis surreptitiously containing the same language, identical culture, and similar but constantly modified tradition from generation to genera...

  Essay; Tapas Sarkar : (Source: Wikipedia) Satyajit Ray and the Unique Identity of Indian Film Introduction Film or Cinema is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating- or indoctrinating- citizens. The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India. Cinema is immensely popular in India from the beginning era of film. The early 20 th  century was a golden age for Indian film. There were several impacts of  great film directors on film making and development, like K.A. Abbas, Chetan Anand, Ritwik Ghatak , Bimal Roy , Satyajit Ray etc.  Among  them the contribution of Satyajit Roy is remarkable. He leads the Indian film to the global stage with its own identity and new breath. And Indian Cinema is now a global enterprise. Early Life Of Ray Ray was born into an illustrious family in C alcutta(kolkata) in 1921.His grandfather, Upendra Kishor Ray Choudhary, was a publisher, ...

Tapas Sarkar; Essay:  The creation of an artist is either based on imagination or reality or can be mixed with fantasy and reality. The image of imagination and the concrete knowledge of reality is directly reflected oh human psychology. And all these procedures and environments happen in/within a society. Therefore, what human psychology represents is simply the simulation of the social exhibition. So, it can be said that the creation of art, by artists, is a simulation of society. The human with their sense, sentient, and conscience are the medium of this socio-psychological system of simulation. This representation of simulation is not fixed; it changes at different ages after several perceptions of generations. Therefore, the definition, form, meaning, and representation change from time to time. What can be art to someone can be destructive sense to others, or some others' perceptions of life can be the true presentation of art.       Now, why the artists a...

Essay; Tapas Sarkar; Imagination cannot be excluded from reality. In other words we can say that reality is the concrete reflection of imagination. When our bodily existence is concrete, then the mental or psycho existence is imaginary (conscious, subconscious, superconscious). As we are, fundamentally, made of body and mind. Therefore, our exclusive true existence is the blend of both these conditions complementarity. With imagination, Antoine de Saint's novella "The Little Prince" reflects this philosophical motto providing fruitful meanings of experience.       The story begins with an aviator who is lonely and frustrated in a desert after his plane crush, where he finds a little prince whose experience of life is a little strange to an earthly man like the aviator, but the little prince's  experience is important to formulate a revolution in the aviator's struggle. Here the little prince can be the aviator himself and the aviator can be interpreted as the re...

  Tapas Sarkar,  Akshay Kumar Roy,  Delwar Hossain  Abstract:  From the very beginning of literature, poetry has remained as one of the unique mediums of communication between the poets and the readers. It conveys messages of love, morality, philosophy, war, revolutionary ideals and so on and so forth. Over the period of times the form and function of poetry has undergone a drastic change. Different poets in different periods have emerged with their own poetic canons to present their creations to the audience. While talking about British poetry, it too has vast changes both in form and content and its aim from the age of Chaucer to Shakespeare, from Shakespeare to the Romantic period, from the Romantic to the Victorian period and from the Victorian to the present day England. England, of course, in this post-colonial era has become the land of multiculturalism, trade, religion, and so on, especially with the black emigrants from the African-Caribbean continents ...

 Book Review; Tapas Sarkar, PhD English; Three Stories: Jibanananda Das is a collection of three translated short stories from Bengali poet, novelist, essayist, and author Jibanananda Das, by Chandak Chattarji. These three translated short stories are “Shadow play” which is translated from Das’s “Chhaya Nat”, “Tale of City and Village” from “Gram o Shohorer Golpo”, and “Bilash” from the same Bengali title “Bilash”. Jibanananda Das is mostly acquainted as a modern Bengali poet just after the name Tagore. Das’s remarkable poetry collections are Jhara Palak (1928), Dhushor Pandulipi (1936), Shreshtha Kobita (1954), and others. It was Clinton B. Seely who translated most of Das’s poems and wrote his biographical text “A Poet Apart: A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet Jibanananda Das (1899-1954)”. With Seely’s contribution, Das is recognized as a poet worldwide. Now, many of Das’s poems are translated into English. But, as a prose writer Das’s identity is still concealed, esp...