Rhythm Divine Poets’ Poetry
Meet on Colours at Art Fair
Rhythm Divine Poets group organised a gala poetry meet
at the fifth season of Sufia’s Art Fair (Chemould Art Gallery) on Sunday 6th
December, 2015. This was second such association, the first being at last
season’s Art Fair. Art Fair 5 was inaugurated on 4th December by noted
photographer Kaunteya Sinha, fashion designer Lopamudra Mandal Saha, artist and
professor of RBU Sohini Dhar, and social activist Urmi Basu of New Light. The
fair is on till 8th December. The first day also saw the performance of the
noted singer Tapasi and her band. On Saturday the Art Fair hosted the book
cover launch of Defiant Dreams: Tales of Everyday Divas edited by Rhiti Bose
and Lopa Banerjee. The event was followed by songs by the talented singer Tiasa
Ray.
Art Fair has long been the place where poetic jamming
has taken place before any poetry groups came into vogue, other than a few
niche ones, and poets have always looked forward to it. This time it was no
exception. There was increased participation from poets who love the warmth of
the event and the quality of the poems recited. The theme of the day was
“Colours” and amidst an atmosphere of art, paintings, photography, craft, lifestyle
products and music poets sat and recited in front of an august gathering. Among
the guests were Prof. Jharna Sanyal, former Head of the Department of English,
Calcutta University, and Shri Dinesh Vadera of Mudra Arts. Both Prof. Sanyal
and Dineshji are themselves poets. Prof. Sanyal has also been the judge of the
Rhythm Divine online poet of the month contest. It was a privilege to have such
eminent personalities at the meet.
The evening started with the felicitation of the
guests and the awarding of certificates to the online poetry competition
winners Niladri Mahajan and Ipsita Ganguly. Among the poets who read their
poems mainly on the theme “Colours” and
wore the colour they recited on were Kushal Poddar, Niladri Mahajan, Ipsita
Ganguly, Aiman Abdulla, Ranjani Chowdhury, Bob D’Costa, Sana Mohammed, Rahul
Mall, Samrat Dey and others including the hosts Sufia Khatoon and Amit Shankar
Saha. Prof. Jharna Sanyal as well as Shri Dinesh Vadera too read their
compositions. Dineshji’s poem was in Gujarati and so for the first time there
were poems in English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati recited at a single
event of Rhythm Divine Poets group. Prof. Sanyal was impressed by the
compositions of the poets. Some of her old students like Lopa Banerjee and
Anindita Bose too joined later. The evening saw a fitting culmination in an
enthralling musical performance by Samrat Dey. Rhythm Divine poets group is
thankful to all those who turned up to make this event a grand success.
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My review of Surviving in My World by Manohar Mouli Biswas appears in the open access journal LangLit released on 30th Nov. - http://langlit.org/langlit-current-issue (See review section)
