Five
gentlemen of different age groups have certain common interest. By virtue of
their profession, out of five, four were associated with daily Kolkata life and
they have passion for this city and its colonial history. With their limited
resources three of them have started reading about Kolkata from the old
book-shelves of Kolkata libraries & web world of Internet, the fourth and
fifth one has choose their photography skill to portray their passion. Though
their curiosity was centered within the territory colonial Kolkata but
gradually it moved toward other regions of Bengal of different historical,
cultural significance.
None of them
were historian but, four of them have nothing to do with professional
historical studies, but they have common wave length to hear & tell the
story of bygone era. Their common study indicates the history of Kolkata is
only of just over three hundred (?) years (much younger than Delhi or
Varanashi) but it would have been worthless to ignore eastern regions of Indian
subcontinent. They further went on to explore the treasure of this prosperous
part.
Their passion
for colonial Kolkata and for other heritage structures of Bengal come into
contact with a fresh idea of the youngest of their group Mr. Sritam Mukherjee,
who is doing M.A in History from Jadavpur University. He wished to introduce a
blend of history, heritage and the idea around folk culture. Gradually a
cumulative idea of heritage, history and folk culture appeared as Astounding Bengal.
All of a
sudden it appeared to them they can share their limited resources through Blog,
share their story telling & lens-work with the world, in the process they
may be enriched with more information.
If you feel
anything to comment you can reach us.
ranadeep_chaudhuri@yahoo.co.in
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