Sunday, July 17, 2011

Dylan and Marley

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A Literary Workshop on Iconic Folksingers entitled

'Modern Poetry in the Lyrics of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley'

 Sunday, July 17th 
 Tracks & Commentary by Jugneeta Sudan and Dan Driscoll



Newspaper prints of the event: 



Introducing 'Gitanjali Listening Post' :

At the July 17th Workshop we  unveiled a new feature: a 'pilot project' entitled 'Gitanjali Listening Post' , whereby high quality music CDs donated by friends of Gallery Gitanjali were accessed by gallery visitors .
Currently there is on inventory some fifty audio-cds (including  Dylan & Marley) comprising
more than a thousand music-tracks, with prospect of further additions.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Commemorating the occasion of Tagore's 150th birth anniversary, Gitanjali Readings

 Commemorating the occasion of Tagore's 150th birth anniversary, a Book Reading session on his award winning book of verse on 8th may, 2011

 

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

GITANJALI

Song Offerings
A collection of prose translations
made by the author from
the original Bengali
With an introduction by
W. B. YEATS
to WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN


Readings comprised of recitations in Bangla and the English language along with a Power Point Presentation and and a few movie excerpts

"Song Offerings"
Translations made by the author from the original Bengali.

Mind Without Fear
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.
Little Flute
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail
vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales,
and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in
joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine.
Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Resource Persons : Daniel Driscoll, Dr Maitra (BITS Goa), Ipsita Das , Jugneeta Sudan

Friday, March 18, 2011

Commemorating Centennary Celebrations of Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy

'World of Books'
Book Reading Workshop
Leo Tolstoy Centenary Celebrations in Nov, 2010 made us revisit his works and we did a book reading on "ANNA KARENINA",  which he called his first true novel
An extremely engrossing read, this book tells the tale of one of the most enthralling love affairs in the history of literature.  Penned while Tolstoy was wrestling with a religious crisis that nearly destroyed him, the book is filled with passion and soul-searching. Serialized in the Russian Herald from 1875?877 and published in its entirety in 1878, Anna Karenina was wildly popular and controversial. 
Yet Anna Karenina is a book that covers much more than one woman's misguided love affair. Tolstoy's broad canvas is big enough to include insight into happy marriages, adultery, sexuality, country life, politics, masculinity and femininity, individuality, conformity, altruism, love, death, longing and success. On nearly every one of its more than 800 pages is a sliver of Tolstoy's philosophy of life. Again and again, these small philosophical interludes resound with meaning that is as applicable today as it was more than a century ago. In all of literature, there are few novels that cover as much territory, or have stood the test of time so well.
There is always a struggle between superficial entertainment and meaningful entertainment. It is like the struggle between a video game and a good book. The literary workshop ‘Pleasure of Reading’ wants us all to look at our innate and compulsive love affair with story, as a species. The workshop entailed analysis, readings, movie excerpts and a PowerPoint presentation.
Rendezvous @ICG "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
18th Mar, 2011 from 5.00pm to 7.00pm
The resource persons were Daniel Driscoll and Jugneeta Sudan