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Recently Dhananjay was invited by the Dr. Blanka Knotkova Capkova, Chair of Gender
Studies Department of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic for delivering lecture
on "Folk God and Goddess of Bengal". In his lecture he also added the folk beliefs and
folk rituals of Bengal. Dhananjay highlighted folk literature which based on folk beliefs and
fairs. This subject was really interesting for them and this lecture was received by the
students and eminent persons immensely. He captured readers mind and he is received by
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Dr. Blank Knotkova is very popular and famous in this university and her
hospitality was remarkably well. It can be mentioned here that the total environment of the
Gender Studies Department impressed Dhananjay in a large extent. Obviously Dr. Knotkova
is responsible for such creation of environment and her students are really serious to maintain it.
Incidentally a collection of poems transcreated in English by Amit Chakrabarty from Bengali
written by Dhananjay Ghosal titled "Love The Never Ending Runway" was published at
Gender Studies Department, Prague through a poetry reading session. |
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Dhananjay was invited by Martin Hribek (Lecturer, Seminar of Indology, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University for taking two classes for them. It was really
enjoying. We want to mention here that many Czech students are learning Bengali and
they are interested to know Bengali literature. So, they accept Dhananjay greatly as a
young writer and editor of Balaka. Dr. Knotkova and Mr. Hribek both personalities are very
much efficient to speak Bengali. Beginners of Bengali classes are preparing themselves
accurately to speak in Bengali. Mr. Hribek not only lecturer of this university he is an essayist
and he is associated with editorial board of the journal Pandanus published from Charles
University. Apart from class Dhananjay spent a lot of time with Mr. Hribek for mutual exchange
of literature and that was really enjoying. |
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For this invitation he left India on October 7, 2008 and reached Prague via Dubai and Frankfurt.
He returned in India on October 15, 2008. In a short Europe tour Dhananjay is experienced in
a new angle. It is relevant to mention here that for his literary works Dhananjay received "Young Writers Grant
-2006" from Sahitya Akademi and he visited Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram for this purpose
to discuss with the writers of Assamese, Khasi and Mizo languages. As an Editor Dhananjay received Publication Grant from Central Institute of Indian Languages,
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Education Department, Govt. of India. |
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From the section below, you can read various E-Books of Balaka magazine issues as well as the books written by the editor Dhananjay Ghosal.
We will be adding more E-Books in the near future, in the above. Please stay tuned and check back soon.
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