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സഹകരണത്തിന് പദ്ധതി - എം.കെ. നാരായണന്""
"Plan for Co-operation between KALAMANDALAM
and SHANTINIKETAN/ Mathrubhumi-Palakkad news
An analysis with a probe into
past chronicles veiled behind selected current news and posted as comments by Madan
Menon Thottasseri!
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M.K.Narayan, Governor of West Bengal at Kalamandalam
Shri.M
K Narayan, The Governor of W,Bengal and Rector of the Shantiniketan University
had visited Kalamandalam in the banks of Bharathapuzha (Nila River) and had
promised to facilitate the meeting of V.C of Shantiniketan with V.C of
Kalamandalam (P N Suresh) so as to enable cooperation between two universities.
It will be fantastic to have a cultural integration between thse two
institutions of Arts and Culture. Both Universities will benefit from student
exchange programs as well as multi-disciplinary courses jointly offered by
Kalamandalam and Shantiniketan.
M K Narayan
had the privilege to enjoy – Thayambaka Vadyam, Mohiniyattom, Kathakali – prominent
scenes of ‘Duryodhana vadham’ portrayed by the famous Madavur Vasudevan Nair (
Duryodhanan) and Kalamandam Gopi ( Rowdra Bheeman)!
Probably
everybody knows more on Kalamandalam. Let me give some details on
Shantiniketan…….
Shantiniketan,
the present small town was known as Bhubandanga (named after Bhuban Sinha).
This enclave was gifted to Rabindranath's father, Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and got renamed it
Shantiniketan, which means abode of peace.
Rabindranath
Tagore started his school of ideals –
Patha Bhavana wherein the concept of learning in a natural environment has
become a precedent which is more enjoyable and fruitful. On becoming a Nobel
Laureate (1913), the school was expanded into a university- Shantineketan in
1921. By 1951, it had become one of India's central universities. Many world
famous teachers came to be associated with it, including C F Andrews and Alex Aronson
Who were C F Andrews
and Alex Aronson? It will be interesting to know………
C.F Andrews was an
English Priest who came to India as became a social reformer; He did convince
Mahatma Gandhi to return from S.Africa to India to steer the freedom movement.
His name was dubed as ‘Christs’ Faithful Apostle by Gandhi’. St.Stephen’s
College had named him – ‘Deenabandhu’ meaning ‘Friend of Poor’. Once C.F. Andrews, along with Rabindranath Tagore had visited our great Sri Narayana Guru, the spiritual
leader in Kerala. He had sent a letter to Romain Rolland, his friend (and
French Novelist and historian who got Nobel Prize for literature in 1915)
stating that "I have seen our Christ walking on the shore of Arabian
Sea in the attire of a hindu sanyasin". Some of his illustrious students
are Indira Gandhi, Satyajit Ray, Abdul
Ghani Khan, Gayatri Devi, Amartya Sen
Alex Aronson was a Jew,
but German, who could get refuge from the holocaust by settling in
Shantiniketan. As he was educated in Cambridge, he wrote to Tagore. Who later on
arranged for his travel to Calcutta and stayed in Shantiniketan during 1937 –
44 as English Teacher. He was in India until three years after Tagore’s death
and was responsible for large archive of
news clippings on Tagore’s European trips.
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