DEBABRATA REJ CENTENARY
PROGRAMME AT RTC, ICCR ON 1 NOVEMBER 2017
First part
Opening video with quotations of Debabratat Rej about art and literature with music of Ravi Shankar and Menuhin in the background.
Welcome address by Ragne Birte Lund (former Ambassador and Daughter-
Literary biography of Debabrata Rej
Reading from the drama “Jonomo Jonmantor” by Nandi Ranga Theatre Group
Rreading from “Faust” by Nandi Ranga Theatre Group
Introduction to a new genre of writing novel:
Shankar Roy Choudhury will read from “Gorur Gari”
Launching of the website http://Centenary.DebabrataRej.in by the Guest of Honour Sir Fazle Abed
Poem “Why I Crave for Peace?”
The way of accessing the dramas by using “Qr-
PAUSE
Second part
Quotations from different western philosophers (background music of Shostakovich).
The views of Heidegger on language
Views and vision of Debabrata Rej about creative literature
Postmodernism in language (background music of Prokofiev)
Visions which led Debabrata Rej to the spiritual world
Poem “Sobbing at Midnight” with artworks of Anup Rej
Premonition of death
Poem “Poem in Search of Itself” with artworks of Anup Rej
Mysticism of Debabrata Rej in the light of “ I and Thou” of Martin Buber
Poem “Monologue on Evanescence” with artworks of Anup Rej
Music of Rakhmaninov
Overcoming the fear of death by writing poems
Poem “What Is It Kandinsky?” with artworks of Anup Rej
Concluding speech: The poets in the digital age.