Sahitya Premir Asar
Minutes of Meeting
28 Octobrt 2011
4 Baker Avenue, Glen Waverley
8 p.m.

Guest speaker :
Prabal Chakrabarty.

Present :
Uma Achaarya, Ramen Bagchi, Tuku Bandopadhayay, Kalyan Bannerji and Lutfar Rahman Khan.

Apologies :
Debasis Banerjee, Shonali Gupta, Shyamali Larsen and Dipankar Sen Gupta.

Minutes :
Uma Acharya.

Readings :

• Prabal Chakrabarty
  Our guest speaker, Prabal Chakrabarty, read a self composed story based on the Marxism era in Calcutta. The main characters, Sukanta and Prakriti were in love and shared their faith in communism. However, they parted ways after a few years due to a difference of opinion. Many years later, their daugher and son meet, by the will of Providence, in a different country and a different political setting. They marry each other.
  The story was vividly narrated, and provoked a lively discussion on the political scenario of the Left Wing over a few decades. The reading also led to a lot of discussions about communism, Marxism and how they have affected the world, including the Naxalite movement in India.
  
  The members thanked Prabal for his presentation.
  
  
• Ramen Bagchi
  Ramen Bagchi read some excerpts from a story named "Bhram" by Saranjeet Chakrabarty, published recently in Desh magazine.
  The story revolves around the lives of Aran, a young middle class man and June, a rich woman. June leaves Aran to marry another man who is both rich and influential. By co-incidence, Aran and June meet again and resume their relationship - only to be discovered by the readers in the end that June had been manipulating Aran to get her own way out of a personal crisis.
  The story brought out the dilemma of the main characters.
  
  A self composed poem was read by Ramen Bagchi, based on this story.
  
  

General discussions :

• It was agreed that in the first few Ashors next year, readings and discussion will focus on a couple of selected novels. The following novels were proposed by the members :
  - Bibor - a novel by Samaresh Bosu
  - Raat Bhore Brishti - a novel by Buddhadeb Bosu.
  This proposal will be finalised in the next meeting when all members are present.
  

Close of meeting :
The meeting closed at 9:45 p.m.

Next meeting :
Date : 24th February 2012
Venue : 7 Belfour Court, Glen Waverley

Speakers in the next meeting :
Speakers in the next meeting will be :
- Kalyan Banerjee
- Lutfar Rahman Khan
- Shyamali Larsen