May, 2009 Edition

News Letter of INCAS Kolkata Chapter

KOLKATA
HERALD MAY DAY SPECIAL
 CONTENTS

Message 2

Editors’ Speak 3

May Day 4

Rabindranath Tagore 5

Incas committee, 7
2009

Glimpses 8
Prof. Sunil Shah
Cfa Seminar 9
DEAN - EAST, Chapter Chairman,
INCAS, Kolkata Appeal 10

Sri G Bandyopadhyay
Coordinator (EZ) & Compiler,
INCAS Kolkata Chapter

Ms Tanushri Banerjee
JT Editor Kolkata Herald, INCAS
Kolkata Chapter

Sri Rajdeep Saha

ICFAI NATIONAL COLLEGE
JT Editor & Graphic Designer
Regional office
Kolkata Herald, INCAS Kolkata
CJ - 151, Salt Lake City, Sector- II,
Chapter
Kolkata-700091
Phone-(033)-2358-8308, 2334-4136

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 MESSAGE CHAIRMAN’S DESK

The month of May is of special importance for two international events - one
is the emergence of May Day (International) & the Birthday of Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore in India. Though there is no apparent correlation between the
two events but both are great event of the century which occurred in May.

The Kolkata Chapter is learnt to have been bringing out its May Day Spl Issue
which gives me pleasure. I expect due diligence will be exercised for making the
issue worthy of its name. The CEC members, I expect, have worked well for
developing the desired network of alumni members for the cause of INCAS, the
professional interests of its members to increase their participation in activities of
INCAS in the days ahead.

Let us make all out efforts to make the INCAS platform stronger.

Wishing you all the best

Prof. Sunil Shah

Dean- East
ICFAI National College
CJ-151, Sector – II
Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700091

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 This is the opportunity through which we present to our beloved
members the account of the chapter activities of the past & what we
are going to do for our members in the days to come, In the month
E D I T O R S’ S P E A K
of April, 09 we organized our CEC Meet for the April- June quarter
followed by a Career Visioning Work shop at RO – Kolkata at the
request of the Members .This was really a good experience of all
those who could be present on the day. Those who could not present
must have missed a pleasurable opportunity but they must not get
disheartened because we propose to bring some such more
interesting events for the members in future, if they really want it. We
are sorry to say that for reasons not known to us, We are finding that
though organized for their interest, at their request, Alumni members
are not found sufficiently responsive to attend such programs in
sufficient numbers .Even after making assurance for presence, they
are remaining absent without even any information to the organizers,
leaving the organizers to face wastage in food arrangement which is
loss itself for them because their money is being wasted from the
exchequer. The Speaker Guests from good companies through whom
we like to bring contact of employment & various other opportunities
for our members get embarrassed when a scanty attendance is
presented to them.

We must not forget that this would simply make us suffer more
instead deriving benefit from them. Reasons may be manifold for the
members but cannot be repeated, which is happening.

The matter of interest is that different centers are doing mini-events

successfully for their members under this chapter which unfortunately
our Kolkata members did not feel obliged to do. However, better late
than never, Let us come together to hold our next event - Annual
Reunion successful on next 16th August 2009. You are requested to
register for it as early as possible in order to make an effective
program for the same& wait for our next communication on the issue

Best Wishes to all

~Ms Tanushri Banerjee

~Sri Rajdeep Saha

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 MAY DAY INTERNATIONAL WORKER’S DAY

M
ay Day, the first day of the month of May is celebrated all over India as a
spring fertility festival to honour goddess spring. The day also
commemorates the “International Worker’s Day” which has a historic
significance. It is also a day of political protests. May Day is otherwise observed as a
saint's feast day or a day for organized labor. In many countries, it is a public
holiday.

In many countries including India, May Day is also celebrated as Labour Day. It is an
annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the labour union
movement in United States, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of
workers. The majority of countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1, so it is also
known as May Day and International Workers’ Day. However, many people do not
know much about the importance of Labour Day. So today we will discuss what
exactly is Labour Day why we celebrate it?

This holiday first originated in 1882 as a result of the labour movement and was
intended to be a day of rest for all the workers and also to recognize their efforts.
Historians give credit of Labour Day to
Peter J. McGuire, he was the general
secretary of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners and a co
founder of the American Federation of
Labour. He was the man who first
advocated holiday for US Workers.
However some historians give this
credit to Matthew Maguire. He was
secretary of the Central Labor Union in
New York.

The first Labour Day parade occurred

on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City as it
was halfway between Independence
Day and Thanksgiving. The idea spread
across the United States, and some
states designated Labour Day as a
holiday. Then US President Grover Cleveland signed a law designating the first
Monday in September as Labor Day nationwide. However, Cleveland was not a
labor union supporter but through this declaration he was trying to repair some
political damage that he suffered earlier that year when he sent federal troops to
put down a strike by the American Railway Union at the Pullman Co. in Chicago, IL.
That action resulted into the deaths of 34 workers. In European countries, China,
India and other parts of the world, May Day, the first day in May, is a holiday to
celebrate workers and labour unions.

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE -

R abindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin

family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law, he
returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a writer, playwright,
songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he
achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised
with his many stories, songs and plays. His short stories were published monthly in
a friend's magazine and he even played the lead role in a few of the public
performances of his plays. Otherwise, he was little known outside of the Calcutta
area, and not known at all outside of India.

This all suddenly changed in 1912. He then returned to England for the first time
since his failed attempt at law school as a teenager. Now a man of 51, his was
accompanied by his son. On the way over to England he
began translating, for the first time, his latest selections of
poems, Gitanjali, into English. Almost all of his work prior
to that time had been written in his native tongue of
Bengali. He decided to do this just to have something to
do, with no expectation at all that his first time translation
efforts would be any good. He made the handwritten
translations in a little notebook he carried around with him
and worked on during the long sea voyage from India.
Upon arrival, his son left his father's brief case with this
notebook in the London subway. Fortunately, an honest
person turned in the briefcase and it was recovered the
next day. Tagore's one friend in England, a famous artist he had met in India,
Rothenstein, learned of the translation, and asked to see it. Reluctantly, with much
persuasion, Tagore let him have the notebook. The painter could not believe his
eyes. The poems were incredible. He called his friend, W.B. Yeats, and finally
talked Yeats into looking at the hand scrawled notebook.

The rest, as they say, is history. Yeats was enthralled. He later wrote the
introduction to Gitanjali when it was published in September 1912 in a limited
edition by the India Society in London. Thereafter, both the poetry and the man
were an instant sensation, first in London literary circles, and soon thereafter in the
entire world. His spiritual presence was awesome. His words evoked great beauty.
Nobody had ever read anything like it. A glimpse of the mysticism and sentimental
beauty of Indian culture were revealed to the West for the first time. Less than a
year later, in 1913, Rabindranath received the Nobel Prize for literature. He was the
first non-westerner to be so honored. Overnight he was famous and began world
lecture tours promoting inter-cultural harmony and understanding. In 1915 he was
knighted by the British King George V. When not traveling he remained at his family
home outside of Calcutta, where he remained very active as a literary, spiritual and
social-political force In 1919, following the Amritsar massacre of 400 Indian
demonstrators by British troops, Sir Tagore renounced his Knighthood. Although a

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good friend of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, most of the time Tagore stayed out
of politics. He was opposed to nationalism and miltiarism as a matter of principle,
and instead promoted spiritual values and the creation of a new world culture
founded in multi-culturalism, diversity and tolerance. He served as a spiritual and
creative beacon to his countrymen, and indeed, the whole world. He used the
funds from his writing and lecturing to expand upon the school he had founded in
1901 now known as Visva Bharati. The alternative to the poor system of education
imposed by the British combined the best of traditional Hindu education with
Western ideals. Tagore's multi-cultural educational efforts were an inspiration to
many, including his friend, Count Hermann Keyserling of Estonia. Count Keyserling
founded his own school in 1920 patterned upon Tagore's school, and the ancient
universities which existed in Northern India under Buddhist rule over 2,000 years
ago under the name School of Wisdom. Rabindranath Tagore led the opening
program of the School of Wisdom in 1920, and participated in several of its
programs thereafter.

Rabindranath Tagore's creative output tells you a lot about this renaissance man.
The variety, quality and quantity are unbelievable. As a writer, Tagore primarily
worked in Bengali, but after his success with Gitanjali, he translated many of his
other works into English. He wrote over one thousand poems; eight volumes of
short stories; almost two dozen plays and play-lets;
eight novels; and many books and essays on
philosophy, religion, education and social topics. Aside
from words and drama, his other great love was music,
Bengali style. He composed more than two thousand
songs, both the music and lyrics. Two of them became
the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. In 1929
he even began painting. Many of his paintings can be
found in museums today, especially in India, where he
is considered the greatest literary figure of India of all times.

Tagore was not only a creative genius; he was a great man and friend to many. For
instance, he was also a good friend from childhood to the great Indian Physicist,
Bose. He was educated and quite knowledgeable of Western culture, especially
Western poetry and Science. This made him a remarkable person, one of the first
of our planet to combine East and West, and ancient and modern knowledge.
Tagore had a good grasp of modern - post-Newtonian - physics, and was well able
to hold his own in a debate with Einstein in 1930 on the newly emerging principles
of quantum mechanics and chaos. His meetings and tape recorded conversations
with his contemporaries such Albert Einstein and H.G. Wells, stand as cultural
landmarks, and show the brilliance of this great man. Although Tagore is a superb
representative of his country - India - the man who wrote its national anthem - his
life and works go far beyond his country. He is truly a man of the whole Earth, a
product of the best of both traditional Indian, and modern Western cultures. The
School of Wisdom is proud to have him as part of its heritage. He exemplifies the
ideals important to us of Goodness, Meaningful Work, and World Culture.

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 NEW COMMITTE MEMBERS – KOLKATA CHAPTER
2009

President – Vice President –

K
Sri Pradip Dey Sri Rajdeep Saha
(INC Dumdum – 05-07) O (INC Park Street – 06-08)

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Secretary – Jt. Secretary –

Sri Ramkrishna Dasgupta

K Ms Lopamudra Singh
(INC Dumdum – 05-07) (INC Dumdum – 06-08)
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Treasurer – T Committee Member –

Sri Amodh Sinha A Sri Saikat Maji

(INC Durgapur – 05-07) (INC Park Street – 06-08)

Committee Member – C Committee Member –

Sri Amit Mukherjee H Sri Indranil Roy

(INC Garia – 04-07, BBA Batch) (INC Dumdum – 05-07)
A
Committee Member – P Committee Member –

Sri Atanu Biswas T Ms Tanushri Banerjee

(INC Dumdum – 05-07) (INC Asansol – 05-07)
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Committee Member – R
Sri Indranil Basak
(INC Dumdum – 05-07)

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 GLIMPSES INC - GUWAHATI

CAMPUS HEAD ADDRESSING THE ALUMNI

MEMBERS OF GUWAHATI.

CHAMPION ALUMNI IS BEING AWARDED

MEMENTO IN THE ALUMNI MEET.

SHARING OF EXPERIENCE BY AN ALUMNI.

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 CFA SEMINER

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 APPEAL

INCAS belongs to Alumnus. Kolkata Herald belongs to INCAS members. In

order to exchange information of one another within ourselves, this news
letter of INCAS needs information to Editor, Kolkata Herald, supported
preferably with photographs. Members of Alumnus are earnestly
requested to furnish all kinds of information about their professional
achievement. Recognition, awards, promotion, transfer, foreign training,
Tours, important events like, Marriage, Child birth, Success event in Drama,
Sports or achievement in any field, Painting, Photograph of good nature, in
the place where you travelled, jokes, quotes, write ups, articles, interview
of personalities or anything you like to bring to the knowledge of your
friends which may be sent through mail/courier to us for publication.

Any suggestion for the improvement of its Quality is also welcome.

- EDITOR

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