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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)
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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-
huri
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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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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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.
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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.
In his excitement of being just crowned a super-hero, he forgot about the torch which lay on the ground throwing light on his caped torso that cre-ated an umbra and penumbra on the front wall, the shadow created by the laws of physics was 3 times his size.
At the same time from the other end, parar Chichkey Chor group was in action.
Their leader Ranj-an Gul was busy with his gang in cleaning out some kitchen utensils and notun pujor sari from Banerjee kakus house which was empty as the residents had gone to Darjeeling for kali pujo.
Ranj-an and his gang had their hands full with lots of potlas and couldnt really see well in the front they walked on intuition and they also dared not turn on the torch.
As they slid past the col-lapsible gate they froze
as they could see a shadow of a big caped figure coming towards them. It looked ominous in the dark and suddenly Ranj-an Gul remembered his thakuma warning him that evening as he left his house -Aamabashyar rathey beroshna bhuter raja dhorbey, he had brushed the statement off as mindless senile banter.
His companions waited as they always do when Ranj-an Gul stops and look for direction from him. Aajker maal ta chhere de bujhli, bhooter raja dekhe fele chhey amader. Aamabashya raat ey bhuter raja ashey shuneychi.
Bhoot shuney shobayi de-bhag.
Hearing the sound of splashing footsteps, Hori
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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.
Eyi ki kada mekhey eshechish uthoney giye shoja chan kor tarpor baari dhukbi screamed Horis ma as she saw him come in through the side lane. aar eyi plastic ki porey achish joto shob ulta palta kaaj tor khol ota key
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.
And thus was born a legend that kept perpetra-tors at bay for years to come
My vacation to Austin, TXBy Nalini Dutt
It was August when Baba, Mama, Rahul and I went to Austin on a plane. In the plane I played some games and slept for a long time.
Mesho picked us up from the airport and we went to Aishees apartment. Aishee is my cousin sister. That day we played in Aishees room.
Next day we all got into Meshos car and went to visit a cave. We got some candy first and waited for our turn to enter. When it was our turn our guide Mr.Joe told us we couldnt get any food or drinks into the cave.
We got onto a small bus and sat on a bench and the bus took us into the cave. When we sat on the bus it was very hot and it became cool inside the cave.
I saw a lot of rocks. I saw rocks hanging from the ceiling, some of them looked like ice cream cones. I saw two shoes between the rocks and thought someone was stuck there. Mr. Joe said its just pretend, not real.
Mr. Joe said not to touch the rocks except the dry one. If we touched the other rocks they may die and not grow. Some rocks looked like carrots and grapes.
Mr.Joe also showed us a story in the rocks. Once upon a time there was a princess, a king, a queen and a knight. The knight wanted to marry the princess. The king said he can only marry the princess if he killed the dragon. The knight said he would do it and he killed the dragon. Now the knight could marry the princess. Mr. Joes showed us rocks that looked like a princess, a king, a queen, a knight and a dragon just like the story.
I also saw some paintings in the walls of the cave. One of the paintings was that of a mammoth the great great great grandfather of the elephants.
I also saw some water puddles and Mr.Joe said the water is 100% clean and that we can drink it.
We then went to an ice cream room where there were lots of rocks that looked like ice creams sandwich and cones.
After that we went to the imagine room and saw lots of rocks that looked like real things.
After a long walk in the cave we got on to the bus and got out of the cave. Then we went into the car and came back home. We had lots of fun in the cave and we took lots of pictures.
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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.
PoemsHere is one of my favorite poems:
Roaming Cloud
I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn uselessly roaming in the sky, O my sun ever-glorious! Thy touch has not yet melted my vapour, making me one with thy light, and thus I count months and years separated from thee.
A Tribute To: Rabindranath TagoreRitwika Chakrabarti (Age 12)
If this be thy wish and if this be thy play, then take this fleeting emptiness of mine, paint it with co-lours, gild it with gold, float it on the wanton wind and spread it in varied wonders.
And again when it shall be thy wish to end this play at night, I shall melt and vanish away in the dark, or it may be in a smile of the white morning, in a coolness of purity transparent.
One of the things I love about this poem is the title!!! When I first looked through his collec-tion of poems, this poem instantly shouted at me Pick Me! Pick Me! I fell in love with it!!!One of the reasons I worship this poem is it goes into depth about nature, making you feel as if you were almost the cloud itself. Where did he get all this inspiration? Maybe he was looking at the clouds one day, and thought of the idea, or it just came into his mind? It still remains a mystery to me today .All in all; I think Rabindranath Tagore is a god-gifted and talented poet.
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His wagging tailHell fetch my mailHell love me even when Im frail.
He eats little and slobbers a lotHe cant catch a ballOr sit in one spot.
His wet, black noseHis padded toesHe loves to play and lick the snow.
And as his chew-toy, I decreeNo more than five scarsPer arm on me!
As uncanny as he may beAnd though he acts as if only threeI love him to death, my dear dog Manny.
MusicOne of Rabindranaths music quotes is: Music fills the infinite between two souls. He has writ-ten much admirable music for the Bengali culture. Writing the national anthem for India (which you should know by the way is Jana Gana Mana) can be tricky, unless you would like to object. He also wrote the national anthem for Bangladesh, Amar Shonar Bangla. There are so many astonishing works of music by Rabindranath Tagore, and I am grateful that he has written so mush MUSIC!!! We can dance, sing, and enjoy all that music coming from that stunning brain!
Today, Rabindranath Tagore is 125 years old. We respect, and judge him, yes, but he is very brilliant, and without him, I dont think we could do much. No matter where you go to watch a program, Rabindranath Tagore will always have something to do with the program. Whether its the music, the plays, or people reading poems, he will definitely keep influencing the Indian cul-ture, and how we roll.
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I sit here every day. I dont move, but listen. Sometimes I think that I have seen too much. I feel that maybe I wasnt supposed to witness certain things. Horrible things. Sad things. A child who has lost his mother. A dog
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He was sitting on the bench by the bushes away from everyone, scribbling in his notebook. His clever-ness and wits were dangerous. He was smart, and has gotten away with this many a time. He had an itch to kill. No sense of what he was doing. No reason. Just the want, just the crave.
Pictures of Annabelle were taped into his book. He had noted down everything about her. Only four-teen years old, in the ninth grade. Athletic, and friend-ly, loved by many. That is why he wanted this job done. He knew everything about her. Where she went,
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He was curled up around his notebook, prevent-ing anyone from seeing it. He was staring at her pic-ture, his pencil in one hand tapping against the bench seat. Her brunette hair framing her face, a beautiful faade. He knew how to trap her. He knew what she would agree to. He knew how to get the job done.
He laid the notebook down on the bench next to him, and threw his warm sweater over it. He left it there as he walked over to the newsstand by the foun-tain. He bought a crisp, new newspaper and sat down next to his things. She was on the front page. Her arm wrapped around her sisters, both of them smiling in-nocently. They had tied in the state final swim meet, both of them going to the nationals. This was the per-fect place to strike. People from all over will be there, making this more difficult and more interesting for him. He scribbled some more, glancing at her picture once more. He was ready to kill. He was ready to end her life, and then move on to the next.
And I cannot do anything to help. I am a tree, in a park. Every day I see, but I can do nothing. I am help-less because I cannot help.
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The worlds third largest religion with over five hundred million followers.
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It began in India. Hinduism has no known founder or date of origin.
However, the first sacred writings of Hinduism, which date to about 1200 BC. A more philosophi-cal focus began to develop around 700 BC, with the Upanishads and development of the Vedanta philosophy. Around 500 BC, several new belief systems sprouted from Hinduism, most signifi-cantly Buddhism and Jainism.
Over two-thirds of its followers live in India.
No single scripture or single prophet to follow.
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Does not require its adherents to accept any one idea, and thus, is considered culture.
Known for its attitude, attitude of tolerance, of ac-commodating other religious and cultural perspec-tives into their own.
Hinduism is thought to have gotten its name from the Persian word hindu, meaning river, used by outsiders to describe the people of the Indus (Sindhu) River Valley.
Hindus themselves refer to their religion as sanatama dharma, eternal religion, and varnas-ramadharma, a word emphasizing the fulfillment of duties (dharma) appropriate to ones class (varna) and stage of life (asrama).
The fundamental concepts of Hinduism are:
Belief in the ultimate reality called Brahman (universal soul) and its identification with the Aatman (individual soul).
All creatures go through a cycle of birth and re-birth.
The status of the being in each birth is deter-mined by the principle of Karma.
Hinduism: some tidbits that everyone should know
Karma - the law of cause and effect; what you do in this life will affect the next life.
The Karma can be broken only by self-real-ization, and the being is said to be attained Moksha (liberation).
Reincarnation - the soul is born again and again until it finds freedom and that the soul of every person has lived since the beginning of time.
Puja (alternative spelling pooja; Sanskrit: rever-
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Computerized Diagnostics and Perfomance. Tune-Up Wheel balancing / Tire Rotation Air Condition & Cooling System service Brakes Shocks & Struts Oil & Filter Change Engine: Service / Repair Minor & Major.
Coolant Flush Transmission Flush Transmission Tune up Mufflers / Custom Mufflers Install New Audio Sale New Audio & Speakers
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