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1 Happy Birthday Uday Krishna Peddireddi Editor Nature & Wildlife of IBG NEWS IBG NEWS Team wishes Uday Krishna Peddireddi a very Happy Birthday. Our one of the core editor team member, a great human being always in action for nature and wildlife through his VATA Foundation at Hyderabad. Uday Ji, We all love you and wish you a very happy life ahead. Regards IBG NEWS Team

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3 Workshop by Santhal Pata Painting of Jadu Pata Series of Santhal Communities of Medinipur Workshop on Santhal Pata (Santhal Pata Painting of Jadu Pata Series of Santhal Communities of Medinipur) organised by West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University in collaboration with Lalit Kala Akademi Kolkata, December 29, 2016: A workshop on Santhal Pata (Santhal Pata Painting of Jadu Pata Series of Santhal Communities of Medinipur) has been organised by the West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University in collaboration with the Lalit Kala Akademi. The workshop was inaugurated today by Prof. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Vice Chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University, and Chairman, West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts at the Department of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University at 56A B T Road, Kolkata. Also present at the inauguration were Shri Siddhartha Ghosh, Secretary, Regional Centre, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Akademi and Prof. Aditya Prasad Mitra, Dean, Faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University.

4 The workshop will be held at the Jorasanko Campus of the Rabindra Bharati University from December 30, 2016 to January 2, 2017, between 11 am and 4 pm daily. It will be conducted by Shri Dukhushyam Chitrakar and Smt. Swarna Chitrakar, with assistance from Shri Rubban Chitrakar and Shri Sambhu Chitrakar, who were all present at the inauguration. Excerpts of speech by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion inauguration of the 77th Session of Indian History Congress Excerpts of speech by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion inauguration of the 77th Session of Indian History Congress We must keep in mind that there is no conflict or contradiction between the promotion of regional history and the pursuit of the history of our country as a whole. Indeed, the more we know about our regions, the more we enrich the history of the whole country. My first Master s degree is in

5 the subject of History. Kolkata, where I studied, has been home to some of our great historians like Sir Jadunath Sarkar, Professor R. C. Majumdar, Professor N. K. Sinha, Professor D. C. Sircar, Professor B. N. Mukherjee and others. They doubtless wrote on Bengal but their eyes were also set on India as a whole. Professor N. K. Sinha authored a detailed work on the economic history of colonial Bengal. Yet, he also compiled the standard biography of the famous Haidar Ali of Mysore, since he held Hyder Ali s resistance to the expansion of British power in India near to his heart.this larger concern for the history of the whole of India was shared by prominent historians from other parts of the country as well. The great authority on South Indian history S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar published important studies of the Guptas and Gurjaras of Northern India. Whether we focus on regional or national history, what is needed the most in our approach to History is that we should be as objective as possible. This is of course true with respect to all subjects of enquiry and academic activities. Behind many professions of impartiality may lie deeply rooted sentiments of prejudice or an innate sense of superiority. It is useful in this regard to recall Edward Said s influential work of 1978, Orientalism, whether he critically scrutinised the claims to objectivity of writing in the west on Asian culture and history. It will be unfair to deny that western orientalists introduced a broader conception of history and a more critical attitude towards historical evidence than our own traditional analysts. Orientalists deciphered our early scripts, they discovered Ashoka for us and tracked as well as translated an enormous amount of source material. They deserve our gratitude for all the valuable work they have done. However, Edward Said s work serves as a warning against the intrusion of personal prejudice into historical interpretation. In my view, every branch of knowledge, whether it be one of the so-called exact sciences

6 or belongs to the spheres of humanities and social sciences, prospers only when clinical objectivity is maintained. It is often the case in history that evidence is either so scarce that the room for speculation is extremely wide, or is so massive that the historian is unable to explore more than a small part of the available data. Personal proclivities of scholars such as loyalties to nation, region, religion, etc. can influence their choice when evidence suggests not a single occurrence but a range of possibilities. How should one guard oneself against temptation in such a situation? I would venture to recommend that reason and moderation alone should be our guide. It is natural to love one s country and see as much glory in its past as one can detect. But patriotism should not result in blinkered approaches to interpreting history or a compromise with truth in order to justify an argument of choice. No society is perfect and history must be also seen as a guide on what went wrong and what were the contradictions, deficiencies and weaknesses of the past. The study of history will be of use to us in shaping our conduct today only if undertaken with objectivity and my impression is that mainstream Indian historiography has been quite conscious of this responsibility. An objective pursuit of History, such as our best historians have attempted, requires an impartial mind of a judge and not the mind of an advocate. We must keep our eyes open for unfamiliar ideas and be ready to consider a range of different inferences or assumptions. This necessarily bars intolerance of contrary opinions or judgements. There has been an unfortunate tendency in our country from time to time to take umbrage at the expression of any view perceived to be hostile to our social or cultural institutions, past or present. Similarly, critical appraisals of our heroes and national icons of the past have been met with hostility and sometimes even violence. The freedom to doubt, disagree and dispute

7 intellectually must be protected as an essential pillar of one democracy. Nothing should lie outside the realm of reason, and therefore of discussion and argument. Such freedom is vital for progress in any field, especially a calling and a craft like History. It is my firm conviction that India s pluralism and social, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity are our greatest strength. Our traditions have always celebrated the argumentative Indian not the intolerant Indian. Multiple views, thoughts and philosophies have competed with each other peacefully for centuries in our country and freedom of speech is one of the most important fundamental rights guaranteed by our Constitution. The Indian History Congress has a creditable record of standing up for freedom of expression and asking historians to be faithful to the cause of reason. It has often taken cudgels against distortions of history. I hope the Indian History Congress will continue to remain alert and vigilant in the cause of an objective study of history. I am very happy to learn that the Indian History Congress regularly publishes its annual Proceedings, containing a large selection of papers submitted at its annual sessions. I am sure that these papers faithfully represent the current level of serious historical research in India. I congratulate you on the high standard that has been maintained by the volumes so far published of The Comprehensive History of India, brought out under your organisation s auspices. I hope this series can be completed within a reasonable amount of time, so that an authoritative historical work of reference is made available to our scholars. I compliment both the State Government of Kerala and the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, for hosting this session of the Indian History Congress. I understand that during the last two decades Kerala has already hosted three

8 sessions of the Indian History Congress. Most delegates at this session will not therefore be strangers to Kerala. Whatever be the occasion, those who visit Kerala from any other part of India soon realise that Kerala has a message for them. They are visiting a state which occupies the top position in the human development index despite limited economic resources. It has the highest literacy rate and the lowest infant mortality rate in the country. Its institutions of higher education are the pride of India. The state was amongst the first to implement land reforms, which even critics regard as among the most equitous in the country. There is much that the rest of the country can learn from Kerala. I congratulate you, Mr Chief Minister and through you, the people of Kerala on your State s impressive achievements. I wish this session of the Indian History Congress all success. Thank you Jai Hind Leipzig Art Highlights 2017 Leipzig Art Highlights 2017 PR Newswire LEIPZIG, Germany, December 28, 2016 LEIPZIG, Germany, December 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ The cultural city of Leipzig, Germany, will get off to a spectacular start in 2017 with some outstanding exhibitions.

9 The Panometer Leipzig will take its visitors on a journey beneath the waves from 28 January 2017 onwards: The new 360 Panorama TITANIC by the celebrated panoramic artist Yadegar Asisi will revisit the most famous shipwreck of all time and will show the ocean giant as it is today 105 years after the catastrophe at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The Museum of Fine Arts will experience a true whirlwind of colour with its special exhibition Nolde and Die Brücke' (12 February 18 June 2017). The young artists of the Expressionist Brücke group, including Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, were fascinated by the works of the outstanding painter Emil Nolde. The collaboration between the group and Nolde, who was almost a generation older, lasted for almost two years from 1906 onwards, and marked the beginning of modern art in Germany. For the first time, the Leipzig museum is telling the story of this fascinating chapter in German art history through 150 paintings, drawings and prints. The Spinnerei in Leipzig is unmissable for contemporary art enthusiasts. Eleven leading galleries and over 100 studios are now housed within the walls of what was once the largest cotton mill in continental Europe. For the Spinnerei Gallery Tour, all galleries and exhibition spaces open new exhibitions (14 January, 29/30 April and 15/16 September 2017; It is also worth making a detour to the newly opened Kunstkraftwerk : For the Hundertwasser Experience, the Italian immersive artist Gianfranco Iannuzzi has transformed the former heating plant into a colourful, lively and engaging immersive Hundertwasser world. Thanks to the large-scale video installations, visitors can immerse themselves in the works of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, painter and architect, until 24 August

10 2017 marks the 500 th anniversary of Luther nailing his theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. This major anniversary of the Reformation will be celebrated in Leipzig with a wide-ranging programme of events. A dozen special exhibitions in Leipzig museums including the Museum of City History, the Museum of Printing Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts will illuminate the reformer s work in Leipzig and the surrounding region. The largest city in the Luther region, Leipzig played a key role in the distribution of Luther s writings, while the Leipzig Disputation of 1519 proved to seal his break with the Catholic Church in Rome. Bengal Chhatro-Yubo Utsav to start from January 3 Bengal Chhatro-Yubo Utsav to start from January 3

11 The month long West Bengal Chhatro-Yubo Utsav , organised by the State Youth Welfare department will start from January 7, 2017 and continue till February 9, To be held all over the State, the three-tier cultural competitions in different aspects will be held from January 3-5, 2017 in municipalities, municipal areas, notified areas and borough levels. The district level competitions will be held in-between January 19-21, The State level competitions will be held from February 7-9, The contestants will receive all support from the block, municipality, borough or district Youth department office. ৩ জ ন য় র থ ক শ র হ ব পশ চমবঙ গ র জ য ছ ত র-য ব

12 উৎসব ২০১৬-২০১৭ ম নন য় ম খ যমন ত র মমত বন দ য প ধ য য়র অন প ররণ য় পশ চমবঙ গ সরক রর য ব কল য ণ দপ তর আ য় জন ক র ছ পশ চমবঙ গ র জ য ছ ত র-য ব উৎসব ২০১৬-২০১৭ স র র জ য জ ড় তন ট স ত র স স ক তক প র ত য গত ও অন ষ ঠ ন আ য় জত হ ব ব লক/ মউ ন সপ ল ট/ মউ ন সপ য ল কর প রশন/ ন টফ য়ড এল ক ব র স ত র এই উৎসব চল ব ৩-৫ জ ন য় র পর যন ত জল স ত র এই উৎসব চল ব ১৯-২১ জ ন য় র পর যন ত র জ য স ত র এই উৎসব চল ব ৭-৯ ফব র য় র পর যন ত Gems of YouTube Tour Of Darjeeling Darjeeling is a town in India s West Bengal state, in the Himalayan foothills. Once a summer resort for the British Raj elite, it remains the terminus of the narrow-gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, or Toy Train, completed in It s famed for the distinctive black tea grown on plantations that dot its surrounding slopes. Its backdrop is Mt. Kanchenjunga, among the world s highest peaks.

13 A POOCHY CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR PETS Love for Animals is a way to be human Kolkata 22 nd December 2106: Kashika s Pampered Paws (KPP) present A Poochy Christmas party an event for cause at Machiners Paradise café. KPP have been celebrating our furry friends through the year by hosting different kinds of Parties and event for them.this time Poochy Christmas party is an exceptional event. Christmas is round the corner. The most wonderful time of the year is almost upon us. The pets love Christmas because it is the time of the year where we get to spoil them rotten with treats, toys and of course a whole lot of LOVE! Kashika s Pampered Paws have invited around 30 pets along with their Lucky pet parents to the cafe for a Christmas celebration. The Poochy Christmas Party has a lot for them like cake cutting, games like tunnel games, jumping game and quizzes, etc. Accolades and awards are favourite of all. Be it Pets or Pet Parent, we all like appreciation. To keep up the spirit Kashika s Pampered Paws also will announce the Best dressed pet, most obedient pet and Best dressed pet parent the day. Our motive of the event is to collect funds for homeless animals.we are gifting them a jacket and a bed saving for this winter. The amount raised from this Poochy Part will be donated in generating the jackets and others things for the homeless this winter. We also have extended our hands to all Pet parents, our friends and family to come forward for this generous cause. Your one donation can save an animal s life. Be it Dogs, Cats, Birds, Cows, any animal which is in need KPP

14 is always ready to help said Kashika Arora, Owner Kashika s Pampered Paws. Heal the world make it a better place for all animals Merry Christmas to All City of Joy Kolkata celebrating Christmas with full of Colors and Joy Moments of Christmas Eve at Kolkata the ultimate City of Joy. IBG NEWS Team wishes Merry Christmas to All.May God Bless You of 6

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18 PM Modi wishes Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birthday A rare politician & statesman from right wings politics in India PM wishes Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birthday The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has wished Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birthday. Wishing our most beloved & widely respected Atal Ji a happy birthday. I pray that he is blessed with good health and a long life. Atal ji s exemplary service & leadership has had a very positive impact on India s growth trajectory. His great personality is endearing, the Prime Minister said

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