Culture, language, tradition and way of life of a society
are best preserved in the repository called stories. In our childhood, in
starry nights, we listened to stories from our grandmother. They always enthrall us, bringing us to the
lands of ancient fairies and unicorns or opening the passageway to a world
where we witness the eternal woes and pains of human beings, enlightening us
with morals to have a balanced life.
Department of English, Furkating College
successfully organized a storytelling event Galpakatha on
28 September, 2019. The invited narrators were Atanu Bhattacharyya, a renowned
Assamese poet, writer, an editor of the Assamese literary monthly Satsori and
Mitali De, a famous Assamese singer. The programme started at 11 am
after a short introduction of the narrators by Dr Debashis Baruah, HOD,
Department of English. For the next two hours, the duo narrated stories from
countries like India, France, Bangladesh etc, mixing them with hypnotising
waves of beautiful music. With pin drop silence, an auditorium full of
students, teachers and other guests listened to their stories. They cried
and laughed with the characters, sighed at their follies and became one with
their emotions throughout the journey of stories. After that, Dr Apurba Saikia,
Principal of Furkating College thanked the duo for the captivating
experience.
After
the event, Atanu Bhattacharyya and Mitali De inaugurated the wall-magazine of the
Department of English, Spectrum, prepared
by the students of the department. This edition of Spectrum has been subtitled as Fabric
of Fables and fables all around the world have been chosen as the basic
theme, keeping a relation with the main event Galpakatha.
A few glimpses from the event:
Those were some precious, mesmerizing moments to be cherished forever. Please upload one or two photographs of the audience, if possible
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