Calcutta,April 10 :
Calcutta,April 10:
A corner of Curzon Park (now renamed Surendranath Park) will remain forever Bengal, thanks to Bhasha Shahid Smarak Samity, which has set up an enclosure called Bhasha Udyan there. The organisation will hold regular seminars and cultural programmes in the enclosure to promote the art and culture of Bengal.
Bhasha Udyan will be inaugurated by Rabindrasangeet exponent and city sheriff Suchitra Mitra on the morning of Poila Baisakh (April 14). Day-long cultural programmes will follow.
'We are trying to give Bhasha Udyan the ambience of Banga Sanskriti Sammelan and Mukta Mela of the Sixties and the Seventies,' said Ranadhir Das, a Samity member.
The inauguration will be followed by felicitation of eminent Calcuttans, like scientist B.D. Nag Chowdhury, film maker Mrinal Sen, set designer Khaled Chowdhury, light director Tapas Sen, stage personality Kumar Roy and singer Dwijen Mukherjee.
Artist Paritosh Sen will inaugurate an exhibition centre, named after sculptor Ramkinkar Baij. A marble structure at the south-eastern corner of the park will be christened Parash Pathar Angan after Satyajit Ray's comic masterpiece. In the film, Tulsi Chakraborty, the protagonist, had stood under the structure to take shelter from a downpour. Actor Soumitra Chatterjee will inaugurate the Parash Pathar Angan in the afternoon.
The line-up for the day-long musical programme includes Ajoy Chakraborty, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Banashri Sengupta, Jatileswar Mukhopadhyay and Subir Sen. The Samity's Bengali New Year's Day celebrations will start on the eve, April 13, with performances by folk artistes Amar Pal, Prahlad Brahmachari and Sukhabilas Barma on Lalan Mancha, which had been erected earlier by the Samity.