BishnupriyaManipuri.org: June 2009

Friday, June 26, 2009

BISHNUPRIYA MANIPURI SOCIETY BANGALORE ALIVE OR DEAD? - Santosh Sinha

The Bishnupriya Manipuri Society Bangalore conducted Rathayatra and Bhashadivash celebration on 2nd July 2006. It is clearly visible in the banners that the celebration is organized by BISHNUPRIYA MANIPURI Bangalore. The reason behind emphasizing on the phrase BISHNUPRIYA MANIPURI SOCIETY BANGALORE is that it raises a question mark on the existence of such society in Bangalore today. There is no doubt that this society took birth on or before 2nd July 2006 as it celebrated the Rathayatra and Bhashadivas, proved by the photographs included. On the other hand, there is no proof that the society is still alive and exists in Bangalore as we have not been seeing any Bishnupriya Manipuri related activities conducted by this society after 2nd July 2006. Now there may be some reasons behind the MAUN BRAT taken by BISHNUPRIYA MANIPURI SOCIETY BANGALORE..

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Friday, June 19, 2009

Bimal Singha’s Death - A CID inquiry and not a CBI inquiry.

In the fourth left front ministry formed in 1998. Bimal Singha was given ministerial berth. But he was passing through a very crucial phase of his life. His brother Bikram was abducted from a place near Kamalpur days before the election to the legislative assembly. Bimal Singha was reportedly in a low spirit all through the swearing-in ceremony. Depression was eating him up.

Conflicts that Bimal Singha faced as a leader, as a politician.

The third left front government (1993) did not include Bimal Singha in the cabinet; instead, he was made the speaker of the legislative assembly. There seemed to be a distance being apparent between him and Nripen Chakraborty, Chief Minister of the first and second left front governments of Tripura and the most powerful person in the state’s ruling Communist Party.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Bimal Singha’s father, the daredevil Laxmi Kanta Sinha

Bimal Singha (born 16 Oct. 1948) was more or less a “midnight’s child’. Rupashpur, his birthplace is a tiny village stuck between the Indo-Bangladesh (formerly Indo- Pak) border and Kamalpur. India had gained independence amidst communal riots and partition. Kamalpur, a frontier town had witnessed the worst of partition and was struggling to survive the trauma of the great shake. His father was a struggling government contractor. Thanks to his father’s whimsical nature, Bimal Singha saw penury and destitution at close quarters and an early encounter with privation and helpless suffering shaped up the course of his life.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Bimal Singha’s remarkable bloodstreams - Ghana Singha, one of the Bishnupriya Manipuris’ first political leaders and his grandfather

Bimal Singha’s grandfather Ghana Singha was a member of the Territorial Council of Tripura, which was equivalent to the Legislative Assembly(MLA) today.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The Tribal’s Misery, a raging obsession for Bimal Singha

To combat one of the SFI movements, a regular occurrence in the seventies, the police had to arrest Tapan Chakraborty, a fellow SFI activist (later a minister in the third left front ministry in Tripura). Bimal Singha brought the town’s administration to a standstill that day. While staging a demonstration before the SDO office, police resorted to a mild lathi charge on the students. Some of the students had begun to show signs of backing away when Bimal Singha snatched a stick from a policeman and gave the fight a new turn. The law enforcers gave away. The sub-divisional administration bowed to the students demand and released Chakraborty.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Incredible, impossible literary exploits of the mighty Bimal Singha

Besides Bishnupriya Manipuri, his mother tongue. Bimal Singha also wrote in Bengali and he was a great connoisseur of Kokborok literature. Some of Bimal Singha’s acclaimed works are:
1. Longtorai: his magnum opus. A vivid portrayal of life in Longtorai, a hill in Tripura. Under running the portrayal is an almost surrealistic story of what can be termed natural love, estrangement, hunger, famine, diaspora, repatriation and reunion. An all-encompassing account of the Reang community with great anthropological value. Calcutta University has recently included this novel in the course of Bengali literature for Master’s degree students.

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Friday, June 12, 2009

The Unsung Creative Genius and Tripura’s first feature film maker - Bimal Singha

Besides working for the poor, Bimal Singha had been nurturing literary ambitions. His writings began creating ripples in the literary circles. Perhaps the wounded feeling at not being offered a ministerial berth motivated him to take up writing more seriously. His works bear testimony to his devotion to the cause of the poor and the oppressed. He created Tripura’s first feature film “Longtorai’

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Bimal Singha, the Gladiator who risked his own life fighting the deadly land sharks, by karunamay sinha

The tea-tribes in the tea estates in Tripura, as in many other places had a perennial tale of suffering and exploitation. Bimal Singha, while still a BA student, threw himself into the cause and in the face of life–threatening schemes against him

Friday, June 5, 2009

Bimal Singha forces autocratic principal to resign, (By Karunamay Singha)

In his early childhood, Bimal Singha was a lonely boy with a dream-struck, possessed look. He neither frolicked with friends nor studied hard to do well in examinations. But he read all sorts of books.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Bimal Sinha rescues a bunch of Indian teenagers from East Pakistani soldiers – By Karunamay Sinha

The decade Swinging Sixties was drawing to a close. One sultry afternoon the people of Kamalpur, a sleepy sub-divisional town in Tripura were startled out of their noonday siesta. A group of school students – a prankish bunch of teenagers – was seen advancing in a procession towards the Indo-Pak border (Bangladesh was East Pakistan then). Armed with a loud speaker the procession was being led by a student leader, a tall, fair, lean youth of around twenty. Anxiety writ large on their faces, the meek citizenry watched the most innovative display of a protest march.