Anirban Saha's

Those who have interest in Bengali films, arts, recitations and music… Sabyasachi Chakravarty, Bratati Bandhopadhyay and Shonali Nath may be 3 of the cherished names. And perhaps when they collaborate and work with Tagore’s work, anyone can expect miracles.

And that is why I couldnt really resist its temptation
Was a bit dissapointed, but once I went to the flow, I am loving it even now…

Why I loved it?
Fusion of thinly related items with Rabindrasangeet has been in fashion, of late. After the copyright has been lifted, intellectuals experiment with Tagores’ work to give it a new avatar. Previously we have seen the Baul mix with Rabindrasangeet, Ustad Rashid Khan and Nachiketa mixing raagas with Rabindrsangeet, Bickram Ghosh came out with his rendition of Rabindrasangeet with highly coupled percussion.
But this effort is very simple, yet unique and touched my heart.
There are poems/extracts recited from different Tagore texts, followed by Rabindrasangeet instrumentals. The concept is by Supriyo Nath, this is unique concept and I am totally in love with it. And I had always been in love with Bratati Bandhopadhyay’s recitation (elocution). She perhaps has the most elegant voice in the world today.
The Hawaiian guitar mixed with the other instruments has created magic.. Listen to it when you are alone, and its like the 9th heaven you shall be in ! Calm, soothing ever flowing Tagore..

Album name:
Nibhrite Jotone

( Bhashyopath o Hawaiian Guitare Rabindra Shrodhyargho)

Although only guitars were not in use, Tabla, Srikhol, Pakhwaj, Sitar, Sarod, Keyboard, Flute, Violin were also used

The tracks include:

This “Times music” presentation is priced only Rs. 125
and is a must listen to by Tagore lovers’. Do buy original CD’s and say a no to piracy. This website doesnot host pirated tracks and there is no download link.

[ A pravachan type post from me after a long time, I guess ]

You can only hope…and work for it… work perhaps not to achieve what you hope, but to make yourself eligible to hope that way.
The work shall make you fail at times, the hope might just disappear.
But the work should be to better yourself.. to make mistakes, rectify, learn, share, collaborate, work and hope again.
For hope alone is the way to achieve, and the more eligible you are, fit for the hope, the better your chances to achieve it.
and perhaps that is success.
My work shall be on, without any plans for the future.. based on the hopes I see today, directing it somewhat towards a better hope.
For each opportunity puts up a new hope.. each new hope, a challenge, each challenge, avenues to develop myself.. make myself eligible for it.
The hope maturing to a goal, and work taking me nearer to it.

[This is exactly what I have been doing these 5+ years.. and perhaps this is the answer to all those who ask me about my future plans ]

I had always been very uncertain of what I want to do in my life. But my only wish was to give my best each time I work, whatever the work might have been.
The uncertainty, led to many successful ventures, while few led to disaster. The confusion made me learn BASIC, commercial applications, biology,… learn about film making, entrepreneurship, debating, singing, painting… writing, blogging, marketing, photography, event management, how to present myself and many other things!
But slowly, with time, I am quite clear with what I want to do in life.. and very calmly so. This time I am content with my decision, and I believe I shall be happy in my work. I believe I will be happy with higher studies and preferably research based works and photography shall be with me always

Photographs by Anirban Saha, Koustav Ghosh, Souvick Mazumder, Kingshuk.
Date: January 16, 2011.
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From Didi Biye., posted by Anirban Saha on 1/18/2011 (8 items)

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Whenever I wish to write few lines about the entire marriage, I get stuck… may be that is why I didnt write anything about it in the last 5 months… and today also I am stuck. Few feelings can never be expressed by words…

Few interesting information about my photography page.  Well I had nothing to do today morning, so I peeped into the insights of my photography page, wishing to see what the responses are like, and how I reached to 386 Facebook Likes.

Few of the fascinating points are:On 1 June 2011, I did a vigorous link sharing, here.. there everywhere .. who ever pinged me, I pasted the link to my photography page, asking them to share with their friends. ..and I was very happy thinking, that newer people are visiting my page. Shockingly,  from 30th May 2011 till today morning, only 47 newer people “like”d the page.
The notable rise being in 236 likes when I posted the light painting. When the page was new, many of my friends joined it. So an increase in the initial stage was something that couldnot have been avoided. [who would avoid it anyway?]

But I feel, the light painting, Jama Masjid minar photograph and the photograph with 6 Anirban’s in it contributed to the momentum, giving me more than 250 likes during the time.

I expected the audience to be mostly constituted of my friends. Surprisingly roughly 60% of the total people who subscribed to my photography page are in my friendlist. [Many of them sent me a friend request after subscribing to my page]
I expected to see much of the traffic coming from Kolkata, Durgapur. Theres a surprise also.. An overwhelming percentage (58.8%) of the traffic comes from Mumbai and Bangalore combined, and Durgapur is not in the list
Expected my neighboring countries to provide me more traffic after India. Strikingly, visitors from USA is more than visitors from Pakistan, Bangladesh, UAE, and all other countries (expect India).
Well expected Facebook, Twitter and “We have a story” to be giving more “like”s. But it is my website anirbansaha.com
The highest feedback/impression was of the photograph with 6 Anirban’s in it. It was not a surprise… I was quite expecting it

The way my photography page got 386 subscription.

I am very clear about few things now… My maximum audience is NOT from my college, nor are my juniors but an overwhelming 74% of the visitors are of the age group – 18-24. Hopefully novice and aspiring photographers. And promotion (was/shall) is never an alternative to good work, when it comes to visitors. I should put up more photographs to my website, and reactivate my flickr account. This page is 2 months, 12 days old now… looking forward to a long time and changing statistics Looking forward to more surprises… I wish someone would write for me, and someone else to promote it.. while I concentrate on photography only.

This is an opportunity to sincerely thank few friends –  Pratik Shivagunde, Apoorv Maurya, Robin Sinha, Sourav Das for being such a support.. Debika Datta, Atmaja Santra for writing two important posts for me.. Anirban Brahma, Swastik Pal for the hard kicks at times Sarasij da for such explosion of new concepts and patience. Arko Sen dada for being whatever you are hope you enjoyed reading this piece ..

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