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  • Probasi of Charlotte Probasi.org1

    Durga Puja 2011

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  • Many known faces, few new ones. Same Hindu Mandir, same Devi vandana. New times, new prayers. Rejuvenated energies and renewed hopes. With these we wish to extend our most warm welcome to new and existing members to our annual Sharodiaya Durgapuja.

    This is our 32nd years of Probasi of Charlotte and 10th anniversary of our Durga puja. Flourishing far, far away from Kaashful and drumbeats of Bengal, Probasi has matured to a steady and vibrant Bengali community. But our enthusiasm to celebrate our cultural roots is still as before.

    With the same enthusiasm, we are starting our most beloved moment of this year Sharodiaya Durgapuja of 2011. Besides Devi-vandana, we have arranged our an-nual cultural program. Probasi members of all ages toiled hard to present a concise and entertaining program, which will blow your mind. To top that off, we will initi-ate the program with a chorus song coordinated by our next generation member, Treena Chaudhuri followed by songs of Suvodeep & team from Kolkata.

    This magazine is compiled from works of our members. We have created a Bengali-oasis so far away from Bengal. Among all the varieties among us, we are still connected by the same cultural thread we still cry with Apu of Pather Pnachali, and smile with Bombagar-er Raja of Abol Tabol. To commemorate and celebrate our rich culture, we extend our hearty invitation to all of our Probasi families and are a vital part of this extended family.

    Probasi Organizing Committee (2011-2012)

    Biplab DasDhanonjoy Saha Tathagata De

    Durga Puja 2011 Organized By

    Probasi of CharlotteBengali Community of Greater Charlotte

    Sponsored By Hindu Center of Charlotte

    Edited & Published by Kausik Chaudhurion behalf of Probasi of Charlotte

    Front cover art by Swapan Nandi

    Our sincere thanks to all businesses & individuals who donated to Probasi,

    contributed to this magazine and helped raise money for Probasi.

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    Program ScheduleFriday, October 7, 20115:30 PM - Puja Anusthan (Bodhan, Sashthi Puja) 8 PM - Dinner 9 PM - Chorus song and Suvodeeps program

    Saturday, October 8, 20119:00 AM - Puja Anusthan (Shoshthi, Saptami & Ashtami), Pusphanjali & Prasad 12 Noon - Lunch 6 PM - Aarati / Sandhi Puja 7 PM - Cultural Program 9 PM - Dinner

    Sunday, October 9, 201110 Noon - Puja Anusthan (Maha Navami & Dashami)12 Noon - Lunch 2 PM - Sindur Khela, Bishorjon

    MC: Shipra Paul and Animikh Sen

    Rabindrasangeet by Ajay Chakroborty

    Song "Aa Chal Ke Tujhe" by Aditi Sengupta

    Song "My Heart Will Go On" by Treena Chaud-

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    Nritya-geet Alekhya Devi Namastute" Di-

    rected by Animita Saha

    Participants: Anik Sen, Ahana Kusum Sen,

    Nalini Dutta, Remy Ghosh, Soha Desai,

    Anushree Ghosal, Ahana Biswas, Anushka

    Mukherjee, Anantika Khindaria, Avanti Saha,

    Anushka Baidya , Rhea Desai, Poulami Das,

    Penakee Das, Rishiraj Puspala, Keya Roy, Jay-

    eeta Banerjee, Tama Banerjee, Idrisha Mou-

    lik, Animita Saha, Soma Das and Animikh

    Sen

    Vote of Thanks to our sponsors: by Kausik

    Chaudhuri

    Song Dhitang Dhitang Bole Modern Ben-

    gali by Sharnali Ghoshdastdidar

    Dance with Songs Medley Ekaaler Chaya-

    geet by Sana and Syon Subramaniyan

    Song Bristir Paye Paye by Rikhia Saha

    Dance "Dolna" by Dibya Baidya, Shreya Nan-

    di and Sneha Mehrotra.

    SATURDAYS CULTURAL PROGRAM

    Friday cultutral program will begin with We are the world choir performed by lil champs of Probasi.

    Followed by singer-composer Suvodeep Mukherjee from Kolkata. He will be perform-ing Bengali & Hindi songs accompanied by Shyamal K Ghosh and Partha Chatterjee on instruments. Please join us at 9PM for this enchanting evening filled with music, dance and fun.

    FRIDAYS CULTURAL PROGRAM

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    This year we have seen record-breaking fund-raising by superb efforts of some of our key members: Animikh, Animita, Anwesha, Arindam, Ashis, Atul, Haimanti, Rakhee, Sanjay, Swa-pan ,Udayan-da and others. With this finan-cial success, Probasi gained confidence to make some long-awaited changes in our puja arrangements: especially to bring positive changes in cultural programs and food prepa-rations. This year we replace the SOLAR SAAJ of our Protimas with new SAAJ Swapan brought from Kolkata. Thanks to him and thanks to Animikh, Sanjay, Swapan & Uday-an-da to spend time labor to fix those new SAAJ. This year, Durga puja bhoj is expected

    THANK YOUto be a huge success with contributions from our members. We understand how difficult it is to prepare dishes in such a large scale: we specially thank all those persons who are contributing their time & effort.

    We would like to thank Udayan-da for ar-ranging Subhodeeps program. Thanks to those families who are very generous to be host for Subhodeeps group for couple of days. In addition, we would like to thank our ad-hoc Board of Directors for their guid-ance at the time of making critical decisions. This is everyones puja: your contribution in kinds, however small it seems, is the galva-nizing factor for this function. Together, we will make it a memorable one, as always!

    Probasi Committee

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    another five minutes and started getting impatient but

    then the dolphins came into limelight.

    The crowd screamed with delight. The first dol-phin had jumped out of the water. But the part of the dolphin that was visible resembled a crescent moon. I could only see the air hole and tail but I felt excited. Later dolphins kept on coming. We saw packs of 2, 3, and even 4. We passed the Shelter Cove Marina and sped deeper into the Atlantic Ocean. The sky started getting as black as coal. Even that did not leave me worried.

    A few minutes later the boat turned back. We had taken around 45 minutes to come here so it would take 45 to go back. Then within a few seconds it started sprinkling rain. In the middle of the ocean it was rain-ing! I went inside trying to keep myself warm and then started the worst storm I ever encountered.

    Rain hit hard on the churning ocean waves and lightning missed the boat by inches. One of the other sailboats was hard hit and its mast and sail were broken. It was stranded out in the open sea. This was the most frightening day in my life. Could we get back home? Would the driver be able to see? Would we reach home alive? All these questions were spiraling around my head which made me crazy. The sky was getting bluer but the rain was still pouring in full force. I closed my eyes and prayed to God. After about an hour the rain had stopped. We were nearing the dock. I rushed down the steps to the first floor. As soon as we touched the dock I got off. Everything was good. Hilton Head has always something new for me.

    The Stormy Dolphin CruiseIshaan Maitra (Age 9)

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    Last November we lost Apurba Rakkhit, our beloved friend and founder member of Probasi of Charlotte. This year we lost S. P. Subrama-nian (father of Probasi member Mahesh Subra-manium) and Binapani Saha (mother of Probasi member Dhononjoy Saha). Words seem inad-equate to express the sadness we feel.

    In Loving Memory of...

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    HappyDurga Puja & Diwali

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    The world seemed bleakand color had seeped into oblivion.He walks silently, invisible,every day the same.

    The days seemed to go on forever.He felt like he was at the end of his line.

    And at the endof the line he was.Almost.

    Because he planned to give himself10 days. But 10 turned to 20then to 30and soon became 99...and an entire lifetime.

    Everyone of those 99 days,he found another reason that his life was worth living.

    The colors soon returned from their nothingness.The music played again and melodies floated lightly.The days shone brightly.

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    With Best Compliments& Peaceful New Year

    James FamilyRakhee, Dilip, Ethan & Mrs. Protima Dey

    DURGA PUJA AUR DIWALILalima Mehrotra

    Ram hain Maryada purshottam

    Krishna hain Makhan chor, nand kishore

    Sita hain Vaidehi aur Radha hain Bhav vibhor

    Laxman hain Ram ke Bhrata, Balram hain bade bhai

    Arjun hain param shishya aur Hanuman nei lanka jalai

    Durga hain Sabki maa shaktishali, dasbhujaonwali

    Har saal aakar hamko darshan dene wali,

    Hamari prarthanon mein hain yeh sub

    DURGA PUJA AUR DIWALI

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    The FallAnushka Baidya (Age 9)

    The fall is hereDurga puja is near.The clouds are clearAnd we all are going to cheer!

    The leaves are turning yellow and red,They are making a colorful bed.The grass is turning brown,I am going to put on a crownFor Halloween!

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    Chhoto SunnyAditi Sengupta (Age 7)

    Letter to HomeRohit Chaudhuri (Age 9)

    My owner is making me go to one of her

    friends house for the week because she

    is going out of town. The bad part is

    that they have a cat. You probably dont know why

    Im so scared of a fat house cat. Well, Im a hamster. I

    would rather stay home alone then getting killed by

    a cat. Lets see what happens.

    Dear owner,

    Its horrible out here. They are tor-turing me. Once they took me out of my cage and put me in the cats bowl. But I luckily escaped on time. Please come back and save me. Im getting scared to death.

    P.S if you come pick me up today Ill give you a penny I found in their liv-ing room. Sincerely, Theodore Hamstein

    And by the way my name is Theodore hamstein. I

    just changed it from whatever that my fat owner

    named me. My owner didnt even pick me up after I

    said that Ill give her a penny. But I was lying anyway.

    Dear owner,

    Please save me. I almost died like

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    My familyPoulami Das (Age 12)

    My family is different My family is cool Even when they

    Make me go to school.

    We have a lot of funLike when we play uno

    I couldnt survive without themThis I know.

    My family and I Love to watch movies

    And on hot summer days We love to drink smoothies.

    We just love to travel Around the world

    I guess you can say I am one lucky girl.

    Poulami Das (Age 12)

    three times now. I dont know why they hate me so much. Every time I see them they are figuring out a new way to kill me. Its horrible here.

    P.S please pick me up!!!!!!!! Sincerely, Theodore HamsteinSomebody please help! Dear owner,

    I decided that Im running away from this death trap and Im going to live in someones backyard. I cant stay with this terrible nightmare any more. I had enough.

    P.S please help! Sincerely, The. Ham.Well, my owner finally picked me up today. She found all my letters. She said that Ill never see those hooligans again.

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    It was the monsoon season in a diamond harbor neighborhood. It was late at night when Hori was returning home from tuition. It was pitch dark due to load shedding and the roads were very muddy after the afternoons downpour. Somebody had left a banana skin on the road and it so happened that providence had predetermined that Horis left foot would fall on the banana skin just when he would turn his torch to the wall of the adjacent building to try and take a glance at the movie poster that was pasted there to check the timing for the next week-ends show of Batman Begins.

    Splash was the sound that nobody heard as Hori landed face down on the mud. He remembered the trailer of the movie where Bruce Wayne was thrown to the muddy ground but in slow motion he would keep getting up. Suddenly Hori was Wayne and somehow things were moving slow around him, seemed he could con-trol time. Wait a min, he thought to himself, this is Batman, not Harry Potter or Back to the Future forget controlling time time to flex muscles and fight the bad guys.

    He cleared his mind of any lingering thoughts of time travel or time control and, still in slow motion, got up to his feet. He could feel the bulging mus-cles and could almost hear his shirt sleeves tear apart as they could no longer hold his muscles in place.

    Yet something was missing thats it I need a cape, thought Hori. He looked around and saw a deserted pan dokan with the black plastic rain cover still hanging. Perfect, thought Hori, and he draped the black plastic around him. Does this also make me invisible, he wondered but his mind quickly course corrected Dude its Batman not Harry Potter.

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    took a peek and with the dim light emanating from his torch, which lay on the ground, saw a few open potlas sitting in Banerjee kakus veran-dah.

    Abar chichkey chor ra attack korechey, thought Hori, If only I could have picked a fight with them, I would have reduced them to pulp tonight bechey galo ora. He closed the collapsible gate and made a mental note to call Banerjee kaku when he reached home, and started walk-ing homewards.

    Arey torch ta no nilamna remembered Hori, so he turned back to get it. In the midst of his sprint Ranj-an Gul turned around to see if bhooter raja was following them and thankfully he saw him backing away.

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    The next morning the sun came out and as Hori was walking towards the bus stop, Gopal stopped his bicycle to tell him Janish Ranjan da kalkey raat ey bhoot dekhechey Banerjee kakur barir kachhey. Hori immediately new what he was talking about and he took the opportunity to say Bhoot na re, ota Bhootman amiyo dekhlam amar shongey kotha bollo je o naki eyi parar choreder bondi banabey.

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    Rabindranath Tagore was, and still is, a famous person in our Indian Culture. He wrote Bengali poems, music, painted artwork, and playwright, was novelist and also wrote Indias nation an-them, Jana Gana Mana. Sadly, though he died on August 7, in 1941. While Im talking about Rabi-ndranath Tagore, youre probably thinking, what does she THINK about him? What is her views about his this person she was just talking about? Sit back, relax, and read by tribute to find out ex-actly what I think about Rabindranath Tagore.

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    5-kW Power Conditioning System for Photovoltaic Systems

    Description

    Making the most efficient electronicproducts for energy power conversion

    Features Ultra high efficiency, peak efficiency > 98%

    Soft switching in a wide load range

    High frequency switching to reduce passive components

    Interleaved operation for ripple current elimination

    Low cost with passive component reduction

    Fast maximum power point tracking update

    Low device temperature for high reliability operation

    High isolation voltage, >3000V

    Low voltage level DC input, suitable for PV sources

    Configurable input voltage, nominal at 24V, 36V, or 48V

    High voltage DC node for future DC distribution systems

    Utility voltage level AC output, nominal at 110V or 220V

    High power at 5 kW, enough for household loads

    Universal output for grid tie or standalone

    Low AC output harmonic distortion, THD < 2%

    Applications Photovoltaic power conditioning systems

    Solar charging station

    Battery charging systems

    Fuel cell power conversion systems

    Regulated DC power supply

    AC programmable load

    PVPCS5000WXX

    Enertronics2204 Hardwick StreetBlacksburg, VA 24060

    TEL: 1-540-552-3052 FAX: 1-540-552-0982 www.enertronics.net

    PVPCS5000W48VDC 48 V DC 400 V

    PVPCS5000W220VDC 400 V AC 400 V

    Enertronics PVPCS5000WXX series is the power conditioning system designed for photovoltaic applications. It has DC-DC and DC-AC versions for different conversion stages. The input of DC-DC stage can be configured with different input voltage levels. The output of DC-AC stage can be configured with different output voltage levels. A common DC bus is available at 400V for DC micro-grid system connection. Power handling capability is higher than 5 kW, enough for a typical household load.

    Users can access the internal microprocessor to program the voltage or current control. Therefore, the output of the DC-AC stage can be configured for utility grid-tied current control or standalone with voltage control. Paralleling multiple units is also possible through voltage and current control designs. Flexibility is the most unique feature of the Enertronics power conditioning systems.

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