The Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley is thrilled to announce Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore, a two-week long virtual festival on Rabindranath Tagore. Featuring lectures and presentations by eminent scholars of Tagore Studies, Rabindrasangeet performances by world renowned artists, as well as a staging of Dak Ghar, a play by Tagore's, this festival will showcase the life and legacy of Rabindranath Tagore.
The thirteenth event in this series is a staging of Tagore's famous play, Dak Ghar (The Post Office) by Tannistha Mukherjee and team.
Please scroll down to see a list of other events in this series.
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DATE: Friday, February 5, 2021
TIME: 7pm Berkeley | 3am London (+1 day) | 8am Lahore (+1 day) | 8:30am Kolkata (+1 day) | 9am Dhaka (+1 day) | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute's FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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Synopsis: Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as the greatest modern Indian writer. Of his entire literary oeuvre perhaps his little play The Post Office (Dak Ghar) has held the most direct, intimate and powerful appeal to audiences in India and around the world.
Daakghar does not follow theatre oriented rules but it is a unique strategic art to depict a symbolic drama. It surrounds and flourishes around a single emotion. A timid, sick and helpless boys relentless curiosity, eager and intense desire to be free from restraint, control and bondage and explore the unknown world of carefree nature.
The deep realization of the poet's personal life is portrayed through Amals character. It portrays his love for nature and thirst for Eternal Beauty and his own childhood, which was confined within the four walls and he was under a strict regime.
The intense desire of the human soul to unite with the Ultimate Soul of ETERNAL BLISS is portrayed through Amols character. Amol is that desperate and eager soul who is attracted towards the endless or God ( Annonto Ashim). Poets this realisation of God is the main inspiration of conceptualisation of Dakghar.
Team members:-
Sakti Das- Moderator
Tannistha Mukherjee- Director
Shreyan Godsay: Amol
Mukund Marathe: Thakurda
Chaitanya Godsay: Madhav Dutta
Ashish Chakrabortty: Doctor/Doi-wala
Shekhar Sakhalkar: Watchman
Dinesh Rao: Headman
Richa Garg: Raja's physician
Shreya Bhide: Shudha
Abeer Kilche: Boy
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All events (except for last event) @ 7pm PST or 8:30 am IST (+1 day)
Mon, Feb 1 @7pm PST:
Sukanta Chaudhuri - Tagore as Big Data
Tue, Feb 2 @7pm PST:
R. Sivakumar - The Long Way to Tagores Self-discovery as an Artist
Wed, Feb 3 @7pm PST:
Mousumi Banerjee - Rabindra Sangeet Performance
Thu, Feb 4 @7pm PST:
Serajul Islam Choudhury - Tagore on the question of Nationalism
Fri, Feb 5 @7pm PST:
Subhasree Ghosh - Rabindra Sangeet Performance
Sat, Feb 6 @7pm PST:
Samik Bandyopadhyay, Partha Ghosh, Bikash Sinha - Tagore and Science
Sun, Feb 7 @7pm PST:
Ashis Nandy, Sudipta Kaviraj, Pranab Bardhan - Tagore & Nationalism
Mon, Feb 8 @7pm PST:
Arindam Chakrabarti - "Why whisper so secretly, O Death, My Death?" Dying in Rabindranath's Poetry and Philosophy
Tue, Feb 9 @7pm PST:
Kalpana Bardhan - Rabindrasangeet Lyrics as Poems
Wed, Feb 10 @7pm PST:
Someswar Bhowmik - Improbable Footprints: Cinematic Turns in Tagore's Literary Creations
Thu, Feb 11 @7pm PST:
Sahana Bajpaie - Rabindra Sangeet Performance
Fri, Feb 12 @7pm PST:
Supriya Chaudhuri, Tanika Sarkar, Rusati Sen - Women in Tagore's Literature & Art
Sat, Feb 13 @7pm PST:
Dak Ghar (The Post Office)
Sun, Feb 14 @noon PST:
Imtiaz Ahmed - Rabindra Sangeet Performance
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Launched in Fall 2019, and housed in the Institute for South Asia Studies, the Tagore Program on Literature, Culture and Philosophy at UC Berkeley, is the first of its kind in the US. Designed to showcase the life and legacy of Rabindranath Tagore, the program sponsors talks and workshops on Tagore, as well as semester-long visiting professorships in Tagore Studies at UC Berkeley. Read more about the program HERE.
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
