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Notification; Tapas Sarkar;  Call for Book Chapters Book Title: Postmodern India: Literature, Film, and Drama Concept Note   The word ‘postmodernism’ comes across in varied facets, straying the readers and speakers from its specific interpretation and meaning. Jean-Francois Lyotard, in his book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), defined the term with the statement, “Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” It means disbelief in ‘any grand theory’. Lyotard suggests that we should not just listen to one story or one narrative, because there are multiple stories behind a story. Therefore, we should listen to small narratives and not just metanarratives. In this context, mind must be open to all form of stories and narratives of knowledge. Today, India is one of the very few nations which can call itself a true ‘postmodern’. We, in India, celebrate diversity and heterogeneity of ideas, philosophy, literature, lang...

Scholarly Talk Series; Lecture-1; posted by Tapas Sarkar; The lecture was delivered by Mr. Janardan Bhoi, a PhD research scholar of Sanskrit at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, 845401, on the topic "Water Memory in the Perspective of Holy Water."  ◼️Date: February 05 (Sunday), 2023. ◼️Time: 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM ◼️Platform: Google Meet and YouTube (recorded) ◼️YouTube video link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=356puh8LJe4&t=27s ◼️For enquiry  Editor and Host: Tapas Sarkar   Mobile:  9609622754 E-mail:  scholarlychronicle@gmail.com

Essay; Tapas Sarkar:  Photo credit: pixabay.com   Suffering, suffering, and suffering…We are suffering, of course indomitable. Most importantly Human beings are suffering today. This is the matter to think and re-think, this is the knowledge to be taught and re-taught about. In this situation, on one side, we are severely suffering from COVID-19 and its tremendous consequences, on the other side we are growing in ignorance and inaptitude; we are still unlearned pseudo-humans. We are blind, rather too busy to prove ourselves superior to man (Human being itself), to other lives of nature and to Nature itself. We see ourselves as perfect critics discriminating ourselves as rich and poor, white and black, male and female, believer and atheist, political and apolitical, right and left, illiterate and literate, even as human and Nature. Nature whom few of us loved to call ‘Mother’ is now being separated from us, polluted by us, parodied by us which is the real intellectual decay of ...

 English Grammar, Tapas Sarkar:  Rhetoric What are "Figures of Speech"?  What is a "Literary Device"? Literary Terms

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...