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By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 16: The Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF), Guwahati, has decided to hold the International Bishnupriya Manipuri Literary and Cultural Festival in Guwahati in September this year. The decision was taken at the general meeting of the Forum held on August 15, 2011 with its president and noted writer DILS Lakshmindra Sinha in the chair. The meeting was hosted by Forum’s advisor Advocate Bimalesh Sinha. According to BMWF acting general secretary Sanjib Sinha, the two-day international festival will be participated by a number of litterateurs and a drama troupe from Bangladesh, besides writers and artistes from Tripura and Assam. The Forum has decided to meet again on August 21, 2011 in order to form the reception committee for the festival. BMWF’s acting general secretary further said: “The meeting had a detailed discussion on various issues concerning the Bishnupriya Manipuri community. In a resolution taken at the meeting, the Forum has than...

Courtesy: The Sentinel  By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, April 25: A number of Bishnupriya Manipuri intellectuals and litterateurs from Assam and Tripura actively participated in the International Manipuri Sahitya and Sankriti Festival, 2011 held in Moulabi Bazar in Bangladesh recently. The participants in the grand Manipuri congregation from the two Northeast Indian States were Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMS) vice-president Hemkanti Sinha, Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF) president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha , cine artiste Ashutosh Sinha (Rabi) and artist Shakti Kumar Sinha, all from Assam, litterateur and journalist Samarjit Sinha, writer Haridas Sinha, noted story writer and journalist Anukul Sinha and journalist Pratim Sinha, all from Tripura. This apart, noted Manipuri dance guru Padmashree Darshana Javeri of Mumbai took part in the grand two-day congregation organized by the Bangladesh Manipuri Kalyan Samiti. Talking to this reporter DILS Sinha, who too...

Courtesy: The Sentinel  By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Feb 23: The Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum has observed the 52nd death anniversary of Mahendra Kumar Sinha, a great Manipuri historian, poet, dramatist and social activist of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community at a simple function in Guwahati on Tuesday. The function began with the paying of floral tribute to the great historian by distinguished guests, intellectuals and social activists. A symposium on the life and works of Mahendra Kumar was also held on the occasion. It was presided over by advocate Bimalesh Sinha. Poet Dils Lakshmindra Sinha gave a detailed account on the contribution of Mahendra Kumar Sinha. During the British period some Kolkata-based writers made their propaganda that the “Manipuris are uncivilized and uncultured people”. It hurt the sentiment of young Mahendra Kumar who had graduated from Kolkata’s City College. In 1917, he went to Manipur to have an in-depth research on records and sources on...

Courtesy: The Sentinel   By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Feb 7: The Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF) conducted a seminar on “Bishnupriya Manipuri Drama” on Sunday evening at Radhamadhab Sebashram at Maligaon in Guwahati. It was followed by a poets’ meet. Speaking at the seminar presided over by noted poet Sashi Kumar Sinha, BMWF president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha and Dr Smriti Kumar Sinha, professor and Dean of Students’ Welfare, Tezpur University, dwelt at length on the origin and development of Bishnupriya Manipuri drama. Dr Sinha gave a detalied account on Bishnupriya Manipuri drama vis-a-vis elements of Indian dramas and western theatre found in them. Dr Sinha threw enough light on Indian drama and the role of Bharat Natya Shastra on them, and the artistic blend of Bharat Natya Shastra and the folk elements of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community. He also threw light on performances like Udukhal Leela, Gostha Leela, Lankakanda, Kurukshetra and the like seen in the Bis...

By DILS Lakshmindra Sinha Regarding the topic “ The Man Dils Lakshmindra Sinha ” I have to say something which is given below.  Thanks to Dils Debojyoti Sinha, for taking much interest on my works and activities. I know him personally as a learned and genius person. But he seems to be over conscious to pass his comment, contracting me, on the spelling of the name of my mother, “Juthi” and suggested the spelling to be “Jyoti”. In our tongue the two words are pronounced as “Juti”. But there is a difference in meaning – “juthi’ (in Sanskrit) is a flower of sweet fragrance (Jasmine), whereas ‘jyoti’ means light. In our Vaisnaba literature especially in Rasaleela songs and Basak songs Juthi is associated with Jadav ( as in the line “jadaba buliya juthi githia…” or “madhaba baliya gathe malati, jadaba baliya gathaye juthi” etc). It was an accident that my father, late Jadav Sinha married Juthi Devi (Sinha)( my mother) like one of my cousin Late Krishna Gopal married Late Radharani (s...

By RK Rishikesh Sinha There is only one literature of India though there are many languages. – Radhakrishnan Just going through the BMBooks Gallery Online, it brings few of the details to us. The details may be correct or incorrect, since it doesn’t claim exclusivity to the complete Bishnupriya Manipuri literary output and literary scrutiny that is required. An example: Can we come to the conclusion that the year 1925 with the publication of Jagaran to be taken as the beginning of the Bishnupriya Manipuri literature? It may be ‘Yes’, according to the details in the book blog, or ‘No’. Whatsoever, considering the year 1925* as the historical year to the enrichment of the Bishnupriya Manipuri literature, still we find in comparison to the history of Assamese literature, it is to be noted that ‘the literature of Assam [i.e. Assamese language] influenced in its own way the creative literature of most parts of northeast India’, the Bishnupriya Manipuri literature had an early and impr...

Courtesy: The Sentinel (November 27) By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Nov 27: Litteraturs, intellectuals, academicians, politicians, journalists and hundreds of others of the Bishnupriya Manipuri and other communities remembered alternative media mogul Gokulananda Geetiswami on his 115th birthday through a day-long function at Radhamadhab Sebashram at Maligaon in Guwahati on November 26. The function continued till night. Organized by the Brihattar Guwahati Geetiswami Gokulananda Singha Janma Jayanti Utjapan Samiti (BGGGSJJUS), under the aegis of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF), the programme included a seminar on the life and philosophy of Geetiswami Gokulananda Singha. Geetiswami Gokulananda Singha was born on November 26, 1896 and died on July 10, 1962. During his about 67-year span of life, Geetiswami Gokulananda made many an impossible task in the filed of social awakening and development possible through alternative media since there had been a mainstream m...

Courtesy: The Sentinel (November 25, 2010) By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Nov 25: Litteraturs, intellectuals, academicians, politicians and others of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community will assemble at Radhamadhab Sebashram at Maligaon in Guwahati on November 26 to commemorate alternative media mogul Gokulananda Geetiswami on the occasion of his 115th birthday. Organized by the Brihattar Guwahati Geetiswami Gokulananda Singha Janma Jayanti Utjapan Samiti (BGGGSJJUS) under the aegis of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF), the day will be observed with day-long programmes, including a seminar on the life and philosophy of Geetiswami Gokulananda Singha at 10 am. Alternative media mogul Geetiswami Gokulananda Singha was born on November 26, 1896 and died on July 10, 1962. During his about 67-year span of life, Geetiswami Gokulananda made many an impossible task in the filed of social awakening and development possible through alternative media since there had been a mains...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Aug 16: The Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF), Guwahati, condoled the death of Bangladesh Manipuri Samaj Kalyan Samiti president Padmasen Sinha, who was one of the working presidents of the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha (NBMM). The social worker died in Bangladesh on August 14. Talking to The Sentinel over telephone, BMWF president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha said that Padmasen Sinha, who was the executive engineer of the Sylhet Municipal Corporation (SMC), had led a group of muktibahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was actively associated with many Bishnupriya Manipuri organizations in Bangladesh and India, DILS Sinha said, and added that the untimely demise of the social worker would create a void that would be very difficult to fill. Courtesy: The Sentinel (August 16, 2010)

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, May 18: Eminent Bishnupriya Manipuri kirtanga singer Braja Kumar Sinha, fondly called as Pacha Ojha in the Bishnupriya Manipuri community, breathed his last at his Krishnanagar residence in Durlabchhara in Karimganj district this morning. According to Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF) president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha, who is younger sibling of the singer, Pacha Ojha died of prolonged illness. He was 73. He leaves behind his wife Pramila Devi, brother DILS Lakshmindra Sinha, sister Fulkumari Sinha, four sons, three daughters, two daughters-in-law and a host of grand children. The mortal remains of the singer was cremated at Krishnanagar today. Pacha Ojha was the recipient of Geetiswami Sanman. Talking to The Sentinel over telephone from Hailakandi, BMWF general secretary Santosh Sinha said the Forum condoled the death of the singer who had contributed much in implementation of Bishnupriya Manipuri language in mahasankirtans replacing Bengali. ...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, March 26: The Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF), Guwahati, today welcomed the announcement of three development councils for Muslim fishermen, Bishnupriya Manipuris and the Nath community for their socio-economic development. Talking to The Sentinel today, BMWF president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha thanked Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Assam Government spokesman Himanta Biswa Sarma and Patharkandi MLA Kartik Sena Sinha for their initiative for the announcement of the three new development councils. A meeting of Bishnupriya Manipuris with DILS Sinha in the chair at Christian Basti here yesterday felicitated minister Gautam Roy and Kartik Sena Sinha for their initiative towards the announcement of the three development councils. The meeting was attended, among others, by litterateurs and senior citizens Biresh Ranjan Sinha, Sashi Kumar Sinha, youth leaders Hareswar Sinha, Narendra Kumar Sinha, Shankha Sinha and advocate Bhimsen Sinha. Photo: Path...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, March 15: The 14th death anniversary of Bishnupriya Manipuri Bhasa Swahid Sudeshna Sinha will be observed with a day-long function at Sri Sri Bishnu Mandir at Dakshingaon, Guwahati by the Dakshingaon Bishnu Mandir Committee and the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum, Guwahati, tomorrow. Besides, discussion on the life and contribution of Swahid Sudeshna, the programme will have a poets’ meet and a cultural programme where guest artistes’ like Shyam Kumar from Silchar will perform. Courtesy: The Sentinel (March 15, 2010)

From a Staff Reporter SILCHAR, Feb 15: The Kapaklei-Tanu Smriti Chaturtha Sahitya Sanmelan, 2009-10 felicitated noted Bishupriya Manipuri singers and gurus (kirtanango) Ojha Bijoy Sinha of Silchar and Ojha Gaurogopal Sinha of Bhubaneswar Nagar at east Kachudharam on the outskirts of Silchar town. The Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum, Guwahati, which collaborated with Kapaklei-Tanu Smriti Chaturtha Sahitya Sanmelan in holding the sanmelan, also felicitated Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha’s former president Gopimohan Mukherjee at the programme that concluded with a cultural programme recently. Due to the absence of ailing Mukherjee, Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha’s former president Manoranjan Sinha, who presided over the felicitation programme, received the felicitation comprising a set of angabastra and a citation on his behalf, said president of the organizing committee Champalal Sinha and executive secretary Rasamoy Sinha. The sanmelan that was inaugurated by poet K...

Bishnupriya Manipuri writers' meet By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Jan 10: That picnic and literature can go together has been proved yet again when the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF) successfully blended the two, atop a five-storeyed building at Rehabari in Guwahati on Saturday. Host of the programme and BMWF president DILS Lakshindra Sinha made an arrangement where a picnic, a literary discussion and a cultural event could go together. The programme began with a picnic that also provided scope for literature and culture. When cooking was under way BMWF members and their family members started a programme where the litterateurs could read out their self-composed poems and short stories, and the artistes could perform songs and dance. While DILS Sinha, BMWF vice-president Narendra Kumar Sinha, Sanjib Sinha, Sujit Sinha and Mrinal Kanti Sinha read out their self-composed poems, DILS Sinha, Rumi Sinha, Rittik Sinha and Nani Gopal Sinha mesmerized others with t...

The foundation stone of the Gokulananda Geetiswami Sanskriti Bhavan was laid by MLA Kartik Sena Sinha at Hatirhar near Srikona in Cachar district recently on the sidelines of the observance of the 113th birth anniversary of Bishnupriya Manipuri national poet, bard and alternative media mogul Gokulananda Geetiswami. The birth anniversary of the alternative media maven was observed by the Gokulananda Geetiswami Kala Krishti Kendra with a day-long symposium that was presided over by Professor (Retd) Kamini Mohan Sinha and participated, among others, by Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha, noted poet Brajendra Sinha, Kalasena Sinha, Gobinda Sinha, Dr Prabhat Kumar Sinha, Professor Santosh Sinha and Rajkumar Sinha. Speaking at the symposium, DILS Sinha threw enough light on the life and work of the alternative media mogul. Kalasena Sinha, Gobinda Sinha, poet Brajendra Sinha, Rajkumar Sinha and Santosh Sinha also spoke on the occasion. Noted artistes Ch...

GUWAHATI, Jan 1 – Gokolananda Geetiswamy Kalakristi Kendra celebrated the 113th birth anniversary of Gokolananda Geetiswamy, the national poet of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community, on December 26, a press release said. A symposium organised on the life and philosophy of the poet at Bagarangan, Srikona in Cachar district was presided over by Kamini Mohan Sinha. A number of writers, poets, social activists and intellectuals attended the programme and paid their deep respect to the poet. Lakshmindra Sinha, the president of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum and the speaker of the symposium, discussed at length on his multi-faceted genius as a poet, philosopher, social worker, harbinger of new thoughts and awakening and the alternative-media moghul quoting a number of lines from the works of the poet. Kalasena Sinha, Gobinda Sinha, Prof Dr Prabhat Kumar Sinha, Prof Santosh Sinha, retired Prof Barindra Sinha, noted poet Brajendra Kumar Sinha and Rajkumar Sinha spoke on various a...

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Dec 20: The 113th birth anniversary of Gokulananda Geetiswami, an alternative media mogul, was observed with a day-long function at Silpgram in Guwahati by the Gokulananda Geetiswami Kalakristi Kendra today. The programme started with the flag hoisting by celebration committee president RK Chandrakanta Singha. Noted Manipuri dance exponent Guru Sashi Kumar Singha was felicitated at the function that was graced by MLA Kartik Sena Sinha as the special guest of honour. Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF) president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha and others were also present at the programme. Convenor of the programme Jitendra Kumar Singha delivered the welcome address. Courtesy: The Sentinel (December 20, 2009) Today is Ninthoapa (Monday)

By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, Dec 17: Byatikram, a publication house, today inked a record in the ongoing 11th North East Book Fair at Chandamari Field in Guwahati today by releasing as many as 17 books on the same forum. The books were released by litterateurs and intellectuals like Anima Guha, Anuradha Sarma Pujari, Rita Choudhury, Rani Gohain, Professor Amalendu Chakravarty, Maini Mahanta, Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha, Gautam Bandopadhyay, Lumding College Principal Ashok Pal, Axom Xahitya Xabha president Ronbong Terang and others. So far, Byatikram has published Bengali, Assamese, English, Manipuri and Bishnupriya Manipuri books. Releasing a Bishnupriya Manipuri book, Sija, Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF) president DILS Lakshmindra Sinha said longevity of any literature depends much on its human appeal. He said poetry is a garland of words that create a vivid picture in the minds of readers. DILS Sinha further said: “In th...

NEWS Pratibha Sinha, Guwahati The 114th birthday celebration of Geetiswami Gokulananda was held with religious zeal and zest at Shri Shri Radhamadhav Sevasram, Maligaon (Guwahati) on November 26. The day-long programme saw a huge gathering of Bishnupriya Manipuri people who came from the Guwahati city, Silchar, Tripura and from other places. The programme started off with a flag hoisting ceremony (firal kupani) by Purandar Sinha, a senior citizen, and lamp lighting by other senior social workers. Jayprakash Sinha, President of the reception committee, gave the welcome speech. Narendra Kumar Sinha (Thakur), General Secretary of the Gokulananda Geetiswami 114th Janma Tithi Udjapon Committee and Dils Lakhsmindra Sinha, President of Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum, also addressed the audience and they thanked everyone attending the programme for extending their co-operation in organizing the birthday celebration of Gokulananda. The programme was presided over by Shyamaka...

NEWS GUWAHATI, Nov 27: The 114th birthday of Geetiswami Gokulananda, an alternative media mogul, was observed with a day-long programme, including an impressive cultural programme that continued till late last night, by the Bishnupriya Manipuri Writers’ Forum (BMWF) at Radhamadhab Sebashram, Maligaon, Guwahati. The programme was presided over by Radhamadhab Sebashram president Shyamakanta Sinha (Paran). Dr Prabhat Kumar Sinha stole the show light by presenting a comparative study on various aspects of life and contribution of Kalaguru Bishnu Rabha and Geetiswami Gokulananda conducted by himself. Dr Sinha has already submitted a thesis to the University Grant Commission (UGC) on this very topic after completion of his research work. Litterateur Manashi Sinha, while giving a detailed account on Geetiswami Gokulananda, highlighted the efforts made by the alternative media mogul and bard to uplift the condition of women. A woman activist herself, she made a fervent appeal to the wom...