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January 22 - 24 at Madhusudan mancha & January 27 - 31 at Rabindra Sadan; 6.30 pm: Banga Natya Samhati has organised a festival of plays in memory of Ramaprasad Banik and for the aid of needy theatrepersons. Today: Purba Paschim presents Patolbabu Film Star, directed by Ramaprasad Banik. Tomorrow: Nandikar will stage Madhabi, directed by Swatilekha Sengupta. January 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Shohan presents its latest production, Manbhanjan, based on a short story by Tagore. Direction: Anish Ghosh. January 22 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandipat will stage Shrinwantu Comrades. Dir: Bibhas Chakraborty. January 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.45 pm: Rang Roop presents Mayer Moto, directed by Seema Mukhopadhyay. January 22 at The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Harrington Mansions, 2nd floor, Flats 5 & 25B, 8 Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 7 pm: The Harrington Street Arts Centre presents A Slice of Life III featuring three plays So Please Be Kind by Frank D Gilroy, directed by Rohit Pombra; Lost by Mary Louise Wilson, directed by Nandini Banerjee; and Today A Little Extra by Michael Kassin, directed by Rohit Pombra. Produced by Stagecraft. Till January 27 at Tapan Theatre; 6.30 pm: A festival of plays by Niva Arts to mark its 20th anniversary. Today: Homa Pakhi (Direction & performance: Soumitra Chatterjee). Tomorrow: Lagle Bolben (Direction & performance: Arun Bandyopadhyay). Till January 26 at Purbashree, EZCC, Salt Lake; 6.30 pm: 13th Lokkrishti Natyotsav O Rabi Pranam. Today: Sunopoka by Natranga. Direction: Sohan Bandyopadhyay. Tomorrow: Laboratory by Lokkrishti. Direction: Phalguni Chattopadhyay. January 22 & 23 at Garpara Bidhan Smriti Sangha Prangan, Gobardanga; 5.30 pm: The second phase of Rupantar Natyotsav: Today: Tasher Desh and Achalayatan by Rupantar, and Anngshuman by Theatre Platform. Tomorrow: Chandalika by Komal Gandhar and Bhoot Puran by Shilpayan. January 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm: Deepa Danda, a Bohurupee production, directed by Kumar Roy. January 23 at Minerva Theatre; 6 pm: Minerva Natya Samskriti Charcha Kendra’s Repertory presents Raja Lear, with Soumitra Chatterjee in the lead. Dir: Suman Mukhopadhyay. January 23 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Purba Paschim will stage Tagore’s Raktakarabi. Dir: Gautam Halder. January 23 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Pratham Paath — an Ajantrik production, written & directed by Ramaprasad Banik.pERFORMING ARTS
January 22 at Rabindra Sadan; 3.30 pm onwards: Parampara Bishnupur, in collaboration with EZCC, presents Bishnupur Utsab. Artistes: Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Manilal Nag, Siuli Bosu, Samir Chatterjee, Santanu Bandyopadhyay and Gobindo Chakrabarty. January 22 - 30 at Sree Thyagaraja Hall, P-530 Raja Basanta Roy Road: Rasika Ranjana Sabha presents its 65th annual music festival to celebrate the 164th anniversary of Saint Thyagaraja. Today, 5.15 pm: Inauguration by Governor M.K. Narayanan; at 5.30 pm: Vocal recital by Bombay Jayashri Ramnath. Tomorrow, 5.30 pm: Vocal recital by T.M. Krishna. January 22 at Sisir Mancha; 5.30 pm: Surer Aagun — Tagore songs by Mausumi Tarafdar and Puranjan Tarafder; narration by Dr Pabitra Sarkar. January 22 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6 pm: Bhavna presents an evening of Tagore songs by Anindya Biswas, Anasua Choudhury, Gautam Chowdhury, Manisha Murali Nair, Manoj Murali Nair, Rakhi Sen and Swapan Basu. Tickets at hall (11 am - 7 pm) / 24557845. January 22 - 25 at Nazrul Mancha, Rabindra Sarovar; 8 pm onwards (night-long): Desh presents The Dover Lane Music Conference: 59th Annual Conference. January 22: Manjusha Patil (vocal), Avijit Ghosh (sarod), Gundecha Brothers (dhrupad), Kushal Das (sitar), Ajoy Chakraborty (vocal). January 23: Yamini Reddy (Kuchipudi), Kaushiki Desikan (vocal), Amaan Ali Khan (sarod), Rashid Khan (vocal). January 24: Rakesh Chaurasia (flute), Arati Anklikar (vocal), Dr N. Rajam (violin), Kaibalya Kumar Gurav (vocal), Shiv Kumar Sharma (santoor). January 25: Jayateerth Mevundi (vocal), Rajendra Prasanna (flute), Ashwini Bhide (vocal), Amjad Ali Khan (sarod).TALK
January 22 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 5.30 pm: Swami Tattwajnanananda will speak on Mundakopanishad. January 22 at Netaji Research Bureau, Netaji Bhawan, 38/2 Elgin Road; 6 pm: Sisir Kumar Bose Lecture to be delivered by Ambassador Satyabrata Pal on An Empty Cup: Human Rights in the New India. January 22 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Dr Samiran Chandra Chakraborty will speak in Bengali on Prasthanabheda. January 22 at the hall of Iran Society, 12 Kyd Street; 6 pm: Dr M. Ishaque Memprial Lecture. Topic: Humayun in Persia: Saga of Fraternal Hospitality. Speaker: Dr Madhumay Ray. January 22 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake City; 6 pm: Reading from Sri Sri Mayer Katha by Bijan Kumar Lodh. January 22 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 6.10 pm: Discourse on Yuganayak Vivekananda by Amiya Prasad Chakraborty. January 22 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Abhedananda Memorial Lecture Hall; 7 pm: Swami Paramatmananda will speak on Mrityu Rahasya.QUIZ
January 22 at Hops, The Slounge Bar, South City Mall; 4 pm onwards: Open General Quiz for three-member teams. Quizmaster: Dhruv Mookerji. Eight teams qualify for the finals. January 23 at Serampur Battala Harisabha; 12 noon: Arnab Kumar Pal Memorial All Bengal Inter-School Quiz for two-member teams. QM: Suman Kumar Niyogi. For details, call 9476422199, 9433080901. January 23 at Khamarpara Sishu Sangha, Bansberia, Hooghly; 11 am: An open-to-all quiz contest. For details, contact 9748148171.BOOK LAUNCH
January 22 at Rotary Sadan; 6 pm: Launch of a bedside medical guide, Poketey Chikitsa - Part I, authored by eminent medical journalist Dr Sujata Mukherjee. The book was written under the guidance of renowned medical practitioner Dr Sukumar Mukherjee. The book will be released by Shishendu Mukhopadhyay, Dr Sukumar Mukherjee, Gautam Mohan Chakrabarti and Agnimitra Paul.WORKSHOP
January 22 at Rollicks Store, 119 Block B, Lake Town; 2 pm - 4 pm: Fruity Freeze invites all fun-loving kids to Little Chefs — fun with ice-cream, a creative workshop for the age group, 6 years to 13 years. Charges: Rs 500 per child. For details, call 9830127296. January 23 & 30 at Eduzone; 11 am: One hour free diagnostic test & a free workshop on SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL & IELTS. Certification courses in basic, intermediate and advanced French & Spanish. Public speaking, personality enhancement, spoken English and soft skill courses on offer. See www.eduzoneindia.com. Register at eduzoneindia@gmail.com or call 9830020277, 92306135278.exhibition
Till January 23 at Abanindranath Gallery, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 10 am - 6 pm: A spectacular collection of mainly traditional Japanese dolls of various forms, such as Miyabi, Tsubaki, etc., in a typical Japanese ambience.ANNIVERSARY
January 22 at Dilip Kumar Roy Resource Centre, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, 3 Regent Park; 4.30 pm: Gharer Mangal Shankha Nohe Tor Jonyo — Dilip Kumar O Subhas Chandra, a discourse by Supriti Mukhopadhyay to mark the birth anniversaries of Dilip Kumar Roy and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Also, a selection of Dwijendrageeti, sung by Dilip Kumar Roy, will be played. January 22 at Satyajit Ray Auditorium, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani; 6.30 pm: Sura Kavya Trust celebrates the 114th birth anniversary of Dilip Kumar Roy with Kabir Kabita by Joy Goswami; Antaranga Sanglap: Tagore & Dilip Kumar Roy, presented by Pankaj Saha and Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee; and songs by Arindam Dasgupta, Sujata Majumdar and Raghab Chatterjee.SCREENING
January 22 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Stree); 3pm: Towards Life Foundation (TLF) organises the screening of a documentary film on various ways of providing education, economic independence and proper health & hygiene to city pavement dwellers. To be followed by a panel discussion and a painting exhibition (by children). Shakila will grace the occasion as the guest of honour.EDUCATION
January 22 at Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, 19A Gurusaday Road; 3 pm: British Council, in association with Birla Industrial & Technological Museum and Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search, presents Celebrating Mathematics, a series of events on popular aspects of mathematics and its applications. Musician Nondon Bagchi will inaugurate the first session and speak on Music and Maths.NETAJI ORATION
January 23 at Netaji Research Bureau, Netaji Bhawan, 38/2 Elgin Road; 10.30 am: Netaji Oration 2011 on If only Netaji had participated in post-independent India building by N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys. Opening song by Pramita Mallick. Governor M.K. Narayanan to preside.READING
January 23 at The Creative Arts Studio, 23 Gobind Banerjee Lane, 9830775677; 5.30 pm: An Evening with Guru Dutt by author Sathya Saran — reading from 10 Years with Guru Dytt - Abrar Alvi’s Journey and clippings from his films. Co-reader: Barun Chanda. Moderator: S.V. Raman.COMPETITION
January 22 at Kala Mandir; 11 am - 1 pm: Mir will host the final round of Spellinc, the inter-school spelling competition, organised annually by Linc Pen & Plastics Ltd. The contest will see 200 schools vying for the position of the ultimate victor.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to:
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