Gitika Trust

26/01/2026

Greetings to you on Republic Day with a conversation with Dr. Peter McDonald, conducted by Dr. Aditi Das Gupta on Jana Gana Mana, Amar Sonar Bangla, and Tagore's communities of songs.

Jana Gana Mana, Sonar Bangla, and Tagore’s Communities of Song : a conversation with Dr. Peter McDonaldDedication: This initiative by Gitika Trust is a tribu...

26/01/2025

Greetings to you on Republic Day with Rebanta Gupta telling us how Rabindranath Tagore, Abid Hasan and Mumtaz Hussain's remarkable creations offer an "open architecture" enabling all to appreciate and cherish songs paying ode to the motherland!

Eulogizing the nation as the Mother: A Comparative Study of ‘Jana Gana Mana’ and ‘Subh Sukh Chain’ by Rebanta GuptaDedication: This initiative by Gitika Trus...

01/04/2024

Gitika Trust is memorializing the 80 years of the Bengal Famine by inviting researchers who have studied the famine from several aspects. Dr. Dr. Joanna Simonow, Assistant Professor, University of Heidelberg, South Asia Institute, Germany has produced scholarly works such as "Famine Relief in Colonial South Asia, 1858–1947: Regional and Global Perspectives,"(Routledge Handbook of the
History of Colonialism in South Asia, 2021) and “The Great Bengal Famine in Britain: Metropolitan Campaigning for Food Relief and the End of Empire, 1943–44,” (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2020). In particular, if you want to know how women contributed to transnational famine relief work, tune in to the complete lecture.
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Gitika Trust is memorializing the 80 years of the Bengal Famine by inviting researchers who have studied the famine from several aspects. Dr. Dr. Joanna Sim...

25/03/2024

এস' এস' বসন্ত, ধরাতলে--
আন' মুহু মুহু নব তান, আন' নব প্রাণ, নব গান।

26/01/2024

Greetings to you on the 75th Republic Day with Dr. Achintya Prahlad exploring some works of poet-songwriters of the Indian freedom struggle Kazi Nazrul Islam and C. Subramania Bharati. Achintya's rendition of Nazrul's 'Aye asuchi ayere patit' and Bharati's 'Aaduvome pallu' invoke foundational values of our republic- a society with a shared purpose, free from discrimination.

2024 Kalyani Sengupta Memorial lecture delivered by Dr. Achintya Prahlad, Fellow at Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge on 'Shakti and the Nation: The ...

10/01/2024

Gitika Trust cordially invites you to the 2024 Kalyani Sengupta Memorial lecture by Dr. Achintya Prahlad, Fellow at Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge on 'Shakti and the Nation: The Divine Feminine in the Eyes of Bharati and Nazrul'. Dr. Prahlad studies ethnomusicology with focus on Hindustani, Carnatic and Indian devotional music. Dr. Prahlad's talk will be based on his research findings published recently in the Yale Journal of Music and Religion, The Dance of Ādi Śakti (2021), which explores the works of poet-songwriters of the Indian freedom struggle C. Subramania Bharati and Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Smt. Kalyani Sengupta (1923-2008) was a vivid personality and participated in Gandhiji's call for Civil Disobedience Movement at the age of 10. Kalyani maintained a collection of Swadeshi songs (Swadeshi Ganer Bhandar) that she had learnt during the glorious years of India's struggle for independence. To honor Kalyani’s life and love of Swadeshi Sangeet, her daughter instituted the Kalyani Sengupta Memorial lecture to spread awareness on research being done on Swadeshi Sangeet and continue expanding the scope of Kalyani's Swadeshi Ganer Bhandar in contemporary times.

We hope that you will be able to join us for what we expect will truly be an informative virtual session. Please see the flyer and link below for more details.

Time: Sunday Jan 14, 2024 06:00 PM India

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Let us know if you have any thoughts or feedback and look forward to seeing you there.

23/12/2023

Gitika Trust cordially invites you to attend a special lecture titled 'Recovering the historical Chaitanya' by Dr. Amiya P. Sen, Hony. Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and the author of 'Chaitanya: A Life and Legacy'. The session will be chaired by Mrs. Tapati Sengupta, Retired Professor of History at Loreto College. We hope that you will be able to join us for what we expect will truly be an informative virtual session. Please see the flyer and link below for more details.

Topic: 'Recovering the historical Chaitanya'-Special Lecture by Dr. Amiya P. Sen
Time: Dec 24, 2023 11:00 AM India

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Meeting ID: 859 5705 6205
Passcode: 865408

Gitika Trust is committed to developing the next generation of public intellectuals and promoting soc

27/11/2023

Gitika Trust is memorializing the 80 years of the Bengal Famine by inviting researchers who have studied the famine from several aspects. Dr. Colin Alexander, lecturer in Political Communications
Nottingham Trent University, UK is the author of the book 'Administering Colonialism and War : The Political Life of Sir Andrew Clow of the Indian Civil Service'.

Dr. Alexander's book reveals that "Those who suffered the Famine were those who could not afford food as a result of the boom economy and who the British did not prioritize as ‘useful’ to save."

To know how internal communications of the British government inform us about the events that occurred in 1943 Bengal, tune in to the complete lecture.

https://youtu.be/9z5MHExtcUs?si=vhZaJpv50OWCs6oz

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Gitika Trust is memorializing the 80 years of the Bengal Famine by inviting researchers who have studied the famine from several aspects. Dr. Colin Alexande...

07/03/2023

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26/01/2023

Dwijendralal Roy and Songs of Nationhood by Dr. Sarvani Gooptu :: 2023 Kalyani Sengupta Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Dr. Sarvani Gooptu, Professor, Department of Asian Literary and Cultural Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India.

Dedication: This initiative by Gitika Trust is a Centennial tribute to Kalyani Sengupta and aimed at disseminating research on different facets of the Swadeshi music in the landscape of Indian Independence movement .

Acknowledgements:
Our freedom fighters.
Shri Dwijendralal Roy and his immortal creations
Dr. Gooptu (research, music and presentation)
Friends, volunteers, well-wishers and patrons

26/01/2023

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 2023 Kalyani Sengupta Memorial Lecture. Dr. Sarvani Gooptu, Professor, Department of Asian Literary and Cultural Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India will be presenting her research on 'Dwijendralal Roy and Songs of Nationhood'. This is our Centennial tribute to Smt. Kalyani Sengupta and aimed at disseminating research on different facets of the Swadeshi music in the landscape of Indian Independence movement.