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Ananda Sangbad
Devil Plays Violin
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erotic, and outright immoral. Therefore, Church authorities, as the arbiter of European societies dubbed violin, with its origin in the Middle East as the instrument of the devil. Soon myths relating devil and fiddling started flying. Rumor spread far-and-wide that people who played violin were in tryst with Satan.
The first devil or Satan in the biblical texts is the serpent in the Garden of Eden that enticed Adam and Eve to eat the proverbial apple and commit the ‘first sin’ by the humankind. By the middle ages, devil’s imagery became wildly varied and colorful. In depictions after depictions, Satan has horns and forked legs of a mule or a goat, wings and often a tail. In some other images devil is decidedly more monstrous with protruding incisor teeth, multiple heads and often a pitchfork in his hand, depicting the tormentor of sinners in hell. These images are very similar to those of Rakkhowsh-khokowsh, Bhut-Petni, Brahmadotyi of Indian mythology. Even the description of ‘narak’ and tormenting of ‘papi’-s is remarkably similar, as described in the accompanying 14th century French depiction of ‘two souls tortured in hell by demons’.
Since violin was the instrument of devil, violinists were often seen as entranced by devil, or devil themselves. Rumor has it that in 1655, after a virtuoso violin-performance by Thomas Balthazar in London, a professor of music in Oxford stooped forward to inspect the feet of the famous German violinist whether they were forked hoofs!
Myth about devil plays the fiddle has lasted through the nineteenth century and beyond. Niccolo Paganini was a legendary fiddler of the nineteenth century. He played his violin with an unmatched skill and tonality. Therefore, people often thought that he possessed by Satan. The following description of his performance in London comes directly from Addison Nugent’s article with implicit permission from the author. “The audience should have been filled with hushed excitement that spring night in 1831 at London’s King’s Theatre as they awaited the debut of a renowned violinist. Instead, the air was marked by nervousness and fear. Ladies fanned themselves and glanced over their shoulders, while gentlemen stared fixedly ahead, crossing and uncrossing their legs. Their anxiety was born of rumors that had been spreading throughout Europe: Niccolo Paganini, the virtuoso violinist about to perform, was possessed by the devil.
The lights dimmed and a tall, hawkish figure dressed in black took the stage. Muffled screams could be heard as Paganini’s slender, grayishwhite fingers grasped the neck of his violin. Then, wielding the bow like a weapon, he attacked the first chords of his opening concerto, “Il Streghe” (“The Witches”). The maestro played with wild abandon, his long black hair flying as he sweated over his wailing instrument. In a review for Athaeneum, a music critic referred to Paganini as “Zamiel” (a mythological demonic huntsman) and said of the performance, “The poor violin was a transformed victim in the demon’s hand, uttering the anguished complaints of his inflicted torture.” In 2013 biopic, ‘The Devil’s Violinist’ an image of horned and longrobed satan rises behind David Garett as Paganini, playing Caprice 24 (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YCsVEsQlm7o), while women are seen fainting in ecstasy. Paganini was a known womanizer. Therefore, myth has it that G-string of his Amati violin was made of innards of a woman he murdered!
Niccolo Paganini died in 1840, but the Church denied him a Catholic burial because of his rumored personification of Satan. After thirty-six years of delay that included appeal to the Pope in the Vatican, his body was finally buried in 1876. In 1896, his body was entombed in its final resting place in Parna, Italy, the birthplace of the ill-fated violinist.
That evening, after a sumptuous meal and a generous helping of my favorite Pinot Noir I picked up my violin to play. I had David Garett and his Paganini’s Caprice 24 in mind, but I do not have his genius nor his skill, and I had not practiced for ages. Therefore, I fumbled through several songs to produce a decent tone, miserably failed to shift to third and fifth positions, and finally gave up.
Next morning I woke up late with a thumping headache. I took some aspirin and dosed off. An hour later, I woke up with a persistent nagging headache. While combing my hair with my fingers for relief, I touched something hard on both sides above my forehead. In addition, there was a funny feeling at the end of my tailbone. I closed my eyes in horror lest I wanted to inspect my feet!
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October 2018 13 Recent Sahitya O Alochana Sessions at Ananda Mandir
Reported by Subrata Bhaumik
Sahitya O Alochana (SOA) is a monthly literary and topical discussion forum under the aegis of Ananda Mandir (AM). It completed its 10th anniversary in January 2018 and will have organized one hundred and eight (108) sessions - including the Literary Seminar at NABC 2018 - by the time this report goes to press. These monthly sessions feature exciting and illuminating discussions on diverse subjects including literature, art, theater and movie; history, philosophy and religion; science and mathematics; economics and business; and social issues, sports, and current affairs. Below is an account of the recently held sessions. June 2018 This was one of our away from home sessions (we had one before in late 2016 in New York). The session took place in Atlantic City as a part of NABC 2018 – which was organized by Ananda Mandir. This event was an astounding success that delivered programming content in excess of 12 hours spread over two days featuring discussions on Literature, Drama, impact of digital media, and 4 hours of uninterrupted poetry and prose readings by the stalwarts of contemporary Bengali literature and Indian English Literature (IEL), including Chitra Divakaruni, Amit Chowdhury, Srijato Bandyopadhyay, Tilottama Majumdar, Angshuman Kar, and others. Attendance was very strong and averaged about 125 each day. Based on the feedback from the attendees and the writers, it could be deemed the best literary seminar in the 38-year history of NABC. A ton of thanks goes out to the volunteers and organizers of the Literary Seminar.
July 2018 In July we were able to take advantage of the continued presence in the US of a couple of star writers from the NABC Literary Seminar and we presented an event entitled An Evening with Srijato and Angshuman. This event featured reading of the works of these two very famous poets in contemporary Bengali literature who are also the joint editors of “Krittibas,” the venerable Bengali poetry magazine stirred up quite a bit of excitement amongst the local literary enthusiasts. Attendance was really robust with more than 50 people; the atmosphere was inspiring; the mood was intimate, infused with breathless expectation on the part of the audience. And boy, weren’t the blown away? They marveled at the wondrous literary work that was shared with them: Srijato, along with some of his prose-poetries (including the famous “Najam”), read a selection of paragraphs from his very famous new novel “Tara Bhora Akasher Niche,” an adaptation of parts of van Gogh’s life, while Angshuman read several of his famous poems. The experience was fantastic, almost bordering on surreal.
A ton of thanks goes out to Srijato and Angshuman.
August 2018 In August we had session that focused on the life and works Raymond Chandler – the famous detective fiction writer.
Chandler, an American, who spent his formative years in Britain returned home in early twentieth century as a young adult just to find that he had to relearn the American way – thinking, expressions, slangs, baldly plain worldview, and the contemporary crime riddled society. Embarking on a writing career at a relatively older age, he focused on pulp writing with hardboiled plots. His fame gathered slow but serious inertia as he established himself as a mystery writer with an eye for intricate, sometimes poetic, details, who also shunned the affinity in the established mystery writing world for inordinately complex plots that demanded highly intellectual and objective solutions. On the contrary, his plots and characters including the famous detective Philip Marlowe often had a human angle, although sometimes prejudiced, and a touchy and feely side to them. His famous novels include “Farewell, My Lovely; The Lady in The Lake, The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep, among others. Some of his novels were made into movies including The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart playing the role of Philip Marlowe.
This was a wonderful session and attracted a completely different crowd who love mystery novels. A ton of thanks goes out to Abhijit Gupta.
Future sessions Quite a few interesting sessions are in the pipeline for next several months. They feature eclectic topics including a discussion on business environment in India, one on theory and the concept of lineage in Indian music, a session on Block chain, and an event showcasing local writers.
The friends of Sahitya O Alochana would like to thank Ananda Mandir for its continued support for the forum’s contribution to the cultural enrichment of the local Indian and Bengali communities.
The Kishalay Awardsfor Writing Excellence were established by Ananda Mandir(AM) in 2016. This program is designed to recognize superior writing skills of school age children and kin of AM members. The initial year awards were made possible by a donation by Abhijit Sen, a life member of Ananda Mandir.In 2017, the award was funded by a donation by Ashok Rakhit, the current president of AM.
For 2017, the winners were Puja Vengadasalam (first prize) and Shruti Roy (second prize).
Nominations are hereby invited for 2018 Kishalay Awards, which have been made possible by a donation by Utpal Sengupta, a member of the Trustee Board of Ananda Mandir.
Following are the basic rules that govern the award administration. 1. The first place winner will earn prize of $300, and the second prize is worth $200. 2. It is available for only school age children and kin of Ananda Mandir members. The contestants for the awards need to reside in the US, and preferably enrolled in a high or middle school. 3. A contestant will need to be nominated by a member of Ananda Mandir or be self-nominated following the nomination rules set forth herein. 4. Potential contestants over 18 years of age will be automatically disqualified. 5. Number of submissions is limited to two (2) per contestant per year. Only English prose (essay, story, report, article, etc.) would be considered, and the length should be limited to 2,500 words. 6. Submission of published article in any magazine (school or others) is highly encouraged although unpublished work will be accepted as well. 7. Nominations should include short biography of the author and his/her connection to Ananda Mandir. 8. Deadline for nominations (with copies of the submissions) for the 2018 awards is November 15, 2018. Awards will be announced and presented by the end of the year. 9. All nominations will be made using the Nomination Form downloaded from Ananda Mandir’s website. For copies of nomination form, please contact Subrata Bhaumik and /or Pronoy Chatterjee at the following email addresses. Completed forms should be supported by the submitted piece(s) of work of the young author. 10. Nomination forms will be available on Ananda Mandir’s website and distributed via email. In case of questions, please email Subrata Bhaumik (Bhaumik.subrata @gmail.com or Pronoy Chatterjee (pkc_usa@yahoo.com). 2018 Kishalay Awards for Writing Excellence
V.S. Naipaul Passes Away
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language, his “Ticket to Ride” to the outside world.
A vocal critic of traditional Eurocentric writings with defined beginning and end, he often leans toward shunning any clean sweep conclusions thereby leaving the playing field open for the story to breathe and move on, alluding to a kind of eternity that some of his characters dissolve into. Traces of his Hindu roots may sometimes be noticed in these tinges of “Ananta”, the perpetual cycle of the universe. Thus, “A House for Mr. Biswas”, is a prompt for Anand, the son of Mohan. It is Anand writing Mohan, the son refiguring the world of his father, and, in the end, with the father’s death, the son begins his life.
Naipaul on occasions appeared to be overly obsessed with cultural identities of people. At times it might seem that he would be vulnerably prone to self-denial, to the extent that he chose to overlook the undebatable truth of humankind regardless of time, race or creed: the human identity. History is replete with triumphs of this paramount identity over any other sub-identities created by human behavior.
Despite his legendary stature, he has a penchant for stirring up great controversies. Naipaul is famous or infamous for the humanity or lack of it expressed through his opinions, his discomfiting assertions – about Islam, about women, races and cultures including Africa, Indian subcontinent, and Trinidad and Tobago, his country of birth. While his assertions and thoughts may often be biased, inaccurate, and unpleasant, but he consistently pointed out that, despite the unpleasantness, they possessed unflinching quality of truth.
Furthermore, he often found himself in murky waters due to his vocal disregard of the establishment as well - the literary world at large. He is known to have made disparaging statements about many stalwarts of the western literary world – the likes of Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Earnest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Rudyard Kipling – dismissing them for repetitiveness, incomprehensibility, shallowness, and revelatory tone, among other things. He also decried the banality of some of the latter-day works of Derek Walcott, the celebrated poet and a fellow Nobel Laureate who he shares a Caribbean background with. It is interesting to note here that it is Naipaul himself who, at the beginning of the Walcott’s career, accoladed him with a comparison to the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
Various literary quarters have matched such indignities, riddling him with scathing criticisms for his apparent bias towards life in exile, haughtiness, and at times, limited vision, while grudgingly conceding him the stature he so deservedly commands in our times. Thus, in The New York Times, Fouad Azami, a Middle Eastern studies scholar of repute, noted in a review of his writings about Islamic civilizations that the master, while delivering his craft at its best, exhibited a limitedness of vision. Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our times, a figurehead of magical realism after Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and a compatriot of Naipaul in terms of a shared Indian lineage, observed of Naipaul’s rejection of fantasy as a literary technique, “When fiction fails the writer, what remains is autobiography”.
James Wood, a literary critic of enormous fame, called him a “public snob and a grand bastard” in a New Yorker magazine review. He theorized that a discernible dual personality in Naipaul had always estranged him from where he strived, on one hand, to be one from within, while rejecting such assimilation on an intellectual level – “He lives in English countryside but is ashamed to live there; The house for Mr. Naipaul in England, as for Mr. Biswas in Trinidad, is a homeless house”.
On the other hand, many literary scholars argue that recognition of Naipaul’s achievements would have been reached considerably unparallel and higher (than he was afforded to) plains during the time he lived and wrote but for obvious reasons. As Amit Chaudhuri, a famous writer and literary scholar of our generation puts it – “which is so obvious that we aren’t conscious of it. Naipaul was not white. This means we must primarily view him as a representer – or misrepresenter – of the culture he came from, rather than as one who’s renewing language and radically rethinking the form he uses. After all, how can you renew something – in this case, the English language and the novel as a genre – which you don’t have cultural ownership of (the novel is seen to be a Western invention “adapted” to other milieus)?”
For all the controversies Naipaul was mired in and the denigrations showered on him, history would still uncontentiously recognize him as a literary pathbreaker who almost singlehandedly created the concept of “Post-colonial literature in realism” focusing on the dynamics of the lives of individuals ruled by extrageneous people in changing times, in complete rejection of the fashionable exoticness with which tales of such bonded societies were hitherto greeted in the first world, the world of the rulers.
The food for the needy comes from generous donations made by you - our members, temple attendees and all well-wishers of the community. Will you please help? This is a year-round program, so any time is good for the donation. All kinds of non-perishable food and toiletries are needed. No glass jars please! Thank You, Krishna Dutta Roy, Chair, Ananda Mandir Humanitarian Activities Food Drive by Ananda Mandir
Annual General Meeting Garden State Cultural Association held its Annual General Meeting at the Crown of India restaurant at Plainsboro on Saturday, March 31st. The attending members were first treated to a savory lunch buffet of North and South Indian delicacies. The meeting which started at 1 p.m. had a full agenda, the highlights of which were reports by the outgoing Chairman of the Board, the General Secretary and the Treasurer, approval of the current year’s budget, followed by reports by the coordinators of the nine committees. The meeting concluded with a welcome note by Sandip Saha, the new Chairman, and self-introductions of this year’s new members. A brief Q&A session followed as well. The meeting concluded at 3:45 p.m. “Baishakhi” was celebrated by GSCA at Linwood Middle School, North Brunswick on Saturday, May 12th. It organized a cultural program commencing with children showcasing their talents. A GSCA In-House program with theme of the Sun and its preyasi was enjoyed by all. In another item, five dance schools from New Jersey participated in presenting marvelous dance medleys which captivated the audience. A short “Shruti-Natok” with a comedy theme followed. The program concluded with “Sur Safari” by Arindam and group whose melodious renditions enthralled all present.
Clothing and jewelry and food stalls drew crowds and added to the festive mood of this day. Picnic GSCA hosted its Annual Picnic on Sunday, July 29, at Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Around 150 people, members and members’ friends, adults and children of all ages, enjoyed a gorgeous day at this beautiful picnic site amidst green meadows next to the Mercer Lake. Morning breakfast included popular Bengali jalkhabar items such as kochuri, ghoogni (prepared on site) and jilipi. Later, for lunch, typical picnic grilled food was made and served in abundance. Varieties of hot and cold beverages were available all through the day.
Many fun-filled activities were planned to keep both adults and children occupied and entertained. Several games were organized for all age groups including spoon races, tugof-war, three-legged races, water-gun fights and soccer. Some picnickers were seen on paddle-boats on the lake, making merry of the gorgeous summer day. Several GSCA teams, in particular food and recreation, put in commendable efforts to make this day of delightful food, great company and outdoor activities go by too fast, it seemed. Sharad Mela For the first time, GSCA will be hosting a “Sharad Mela” during Durga Puja 2018 in the massive space of Plainfield High School’s gymnasium. Stalls of various kinds, traditional and new-age music, video contents will create a nostalgic mela like atmosphere to augment the puja experience this year. GSCA Corner Reported by Pradip R. Das T he cold weather has transitioned to warm summer days and we are devoted to leisure and good times with people we love. This year, NJPA ‘s summer started with the meeting of our ‘parivar’ at East Brunswick in NJ. A new executive committee was formed for 2018-2020 at the AGM. The incoming President elect is Aparajita Sengupta, the Vice-President is Ranadip Sarkar, the Secretary is Chanakya Ganguly and the Treasurer is Pankaj Mishra. The new committee will strive to continue the good work done by the previous committees and will look forward to the continued support and encouragement of one and all.
As India and the World celebrated the International Day of Yoga this summer, the seedsof yogic consciousness seem to have sprouted a little more to develop thePower of Constant Awareness. With the celebration of India’s Independence Day all over the world, one is reminded of the Nobel Laureate, Late V.S Naipaul’s words, “… the beginning of self-awareness is in India now what didn’t exist200 years before: A central will, a central intellect, a national idea… Theywere a part of the beginning of a new way for many millions, part of India’sgrowth, part of its restoration.”
Summer will eventually fade away and Fall will be knocking at our doors. The crisp fall air will herald the season of festivities and celebrations. It will also be the time for NJPA’S gala event of the year-”Diwali and Kali Puja celebration”. We welcome all to come, join us at our annual extravaganza and make our parivar a part of your parivar.
Information about the upcoming event will be available on our Facebook page “NJPA Parivar.”
Till we meet again, have a Joyous Summer and a Happy Fall. S araswati puja was held at ICC with a pretty large number of participants. After the pratima decoration was finished, puja was done with proper ceremony, followed by pushpanjali. In keeping with our tradition, many ICC’s kids participated in a variety of good cultural programs. Naturally, they got the biggest applause from their parents in the audience!
Among the adults, musical programs were beautifully presented by Sangrami Lahiri, Arpita Gupta, Mousumi Chakraborty, Ruma, Kakoli, Suthapa M, Suthapa C and Babhrabi. The Bangla School presented a drama, “Choda”, with their students.
Food was ordered from “Raandhuni” and it was delicious.
Our next celebration was “Baishakhi”. There was a large attendance for this program too. The entertainment programs were built to showcase the ICC kids. Performance of Disahri, Monalisa, Ragni and Ananya were really of high quality. ICC served goat meat, non-veg biriyani and many other items to complete the celebration.
ICC supported NABC2018 at Atlantic City, New Jersey, hosted by Ananda Mandir, with a lot of organizational effort. Arpita served as co-chair of the Reunion Committee, and did an exceptionally good job. Debol, Nilay and others played important roles. ICC Corner Reported By Arpita Gupta Debol Gupta NJPA Corner Reported by Chanakya Ganguly
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Please note that you can become an Associate Member of Ananda Mandir by donating a minimum of $100. Your subsequent donations of $50 or more are credited to your account. When your total cumulative donation reaches $1000, you become a Life Member. Your support, small or large, is most welcome and sincerely appreciated.
At the recently held NABC in Atlantic City, NJ, Ananda Mandir presented Lifetime Service Awards to the following individuals for their sustained and extraordinary contributions to the organization and to the local Bengali community: • Suprasad Baidyaroy • Debajyoti Chatterji • Surya Dutta • Prativa Hore • Chandi Maitra • Biswajyoti Nayak • Late Anil Raychaudhuri • Late Sukanta Sengupta • Kamalesh Sirkar Members Recognized for Leadership by Ananda Mandir During the Annual Fund-Raising luncheon on August 26, Ananda Mandir presented Distinguished Leadership Awards to the following members for their numerous contributions to the organization: • Amitabha Bagchi, and • Dilip Chatterjee Please see the “Distinguished Leadership Awards” (on Page 8 of this issue) for more on the awards to Amitabha Bagchi and Dilip Chatterjee. Lifetime Service Awards Distinguished Leadership Awards Ananda Mandir Board of Trustees is pleased to recognize Mita Sinha as an “outstanding volunteer” of the organization on the basis of a recommendation from the Awards & Recognition Committee.
For the last few years, Mita has volunteered as a dedicated member of the Puja Committee. However, she started volunteering at Ananda Mandir long before joining the Puja Committee. For many years she gladly volunteered for numerous hours to help in the kitchen and in food distribution to guests.
Mita is a very responsible and dependable individual, and it is a pleasure to work with her. She always does all tasks assigned to her with a smiling face. She never says “no” to any job whether it is a Puja Committee or Food Committee task and is always ready to help. Mita is in the temple from early in the morning till night during many pujas and during the 5-day long Durga Puja festivities. Some days she is happy to be there just to keep a watch on the temple.
During the 2018 NABC, Mita helped with the preparation of guest registration packages before the conference and then worked tirelessly at the Registration Desk during the entire three-day mega event in Atlantic City.
Mita is indeed an outstanding volunteer, and Ananda Mandir is grateful to her for her tireless service. Mita Sinha Recognized as an Outstanding Volunteer
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