After the deliberation on 4 of my books by respected panelists at Press Club , Kolkata, Aug 26, 2018. The Event Report by Bangladesh Post 11/09/2018 A Daily with a Difference | Latest Online English Daily among Bangladesh Newspapers Education & Culture Indo-Bangla literary seminar at Kolkata Press Club Indo-Bangla literary seminar at Kolkata Press Club A talk on Avik Gangopadhyay’s academic works on diaspora literature, language death, Tagorean transcreation psyche, Aryan invasion myth, and other essays August 28, 2018 Ankur Art and Cultural Institute of India organized a panel discussion on four seminal books of Avik Gangopadhyay on August 26, 2018 at 11am-2pm at the premises of Kolkata Press Club, India where Avik Gangapadhyay was honored with a recognition for his idiosyncratic literary endeavours and recent awards from home and abroad along with a 4-member panel discussion session where two panelists were from Bangladesh, says a press release. The programme was moderated by Soma Dutta, Faculty, Media Science in George College affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam University of Technology. The panelists of the event were Ahmed Tahsin Shams, who is Lecturer at the Department of English in Notre Dame University Bangladesh, Dr Avijit Majumder, who is an independent researcher of Art and Music in India, Jaideep Mookherjee, who is an independent researcher of Comparative Literature and Indology in India, and Nazmun Naher Shishir who is a journalist and literary critic in Bangladesh. It is to be mentioned that Avik Gangopadhyay is an author and editor of 30 books published on aesthetics, theories of art and literature, language, and criticism. In 2002 Avik Gangopadhyay is awarded with the ‘Editors’ Choice Award’ for his achievement in poetry from the Library of Poetry, USA. His works on ‘Language Death’, ‘Diaspora and Trauma Literature’, ‘The Transcreative Psyche’, ‘Demystifying the Aryan Invasion Myth’ have earned him awards from Edinburgh University (Scotland, UK), Henrich Heine University (Germany), Sorbonne University (France), Indo Canadian Diaspora Confederation (Canada), Centre for Revitalization of Endangered Languages (NY, Canada), Raad O Barendra Bhasha Shongskriti Chorcha Porishad (Bangladesh), Varendra Research Society (Bangladesh), Varada Sidhhi Peetham (India). Ahmed Tahsin Shams started discussion on the significance of Avik’s critical attempts on not-so-discussed interdisciplinary regions where Avik approaches through history, sociology, psychology, anthropology for literary texts in a very well-crafted manner. Shams briefly pointed out two of Avik’s books: ‘Bhashar Mrityu, Lupto O Biponno Bhashar Khoj’ on language death revitalization, documentation of endangered languages and scripts, linguistic genocides, and ‘Diaspora and Trauma Literature: Roots Phenomenon Reality’, on how physical and psychological displacement create trauma as the central theory and theme in postmodern literature. Shams also referred the realistic scenario of diaspora and its impact on human life and writings through citing verses from the literary maestros who were exiled from their own lands, or migrated during the partition. The next panelist Dr Avijit Majumder talked on Avik’s book entitled ‘A Metacritical Aesthete in Tagore’ focusing on the concept of transcreation: how Avik’s approach produced a new lens to study Tagore’s translations where Tagore did not only translated the words from Bangla to English, rather totally gave rebirth to the texts to make them ‘original’. Dr Avijit Majumder’s musically approached his session to make the audience get indulged into Tagore’s essence. However, Jaideep Mookherjee added another versatile aspect of Avik Gangopadhyay through shedding lights on Avik’s book entitled ‘Saraswati: Protnotatwik, Sanskritikik, Nritatwik, Nandonik Prekshit’ where Avik demystified the Aryan invasion myth. And finally, Nazmun Naher Shishir lectured on a complete different arena of Avik’s works, which is his socio-political columns and critical reviews and approaches for untrodden literary classics published in daily newspapers. She shared how Avik’s works are not only meant for the academics, but also for mass from any discipline with whom Avik Gangopadhyay communicates with his lucid linguistic stylistics on societal topics that need to be discussed. The programme ended with honorary recognition of Avik Gangopadhyay from Ankur Art and Cultural Institute of India. Also, souvenirs of appreciation were provided to the panelists for their presence and talks. Education Desk View in Publication Site