Two Sensible Issues from Bankura Christian College

Dr. R. R. N. Bajpai :- Bankura Christian College observed Baaishe Shrabon (the 22^nd day of Shrabon, the fourth month of the Bengali calendar) to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore’s death with the Principal, teachers, non-teaching staff and students taking part spontaneously. The two hour long programme featured a brief opening address on Tagore’s response to death and bereavement by Dr. Richard R. N. Bajpai who also sang Jibano Maraner Simana Chharaye (Beyond the pale of life and death). Amongst the faculty members, Mr. Arunava Banerjee recitation ably captured the mood of a Tagore poem while Smt. Barsha Biswas presented chronologically Tagore’s creative pursuits with specific regard to those phases which saw the passing away of his elder sinster-in-law Kadambari Devi, his wife, father and children, Renuka and Shamindranath. Tagore songs came to life with Dr. Debasish Bandyopadhyay’s Tomar Surer Dharay (from the stream of your music); it was followed by Mr. Somnath Mukherjee, Mr. Anindya Sen, Dr. Anindita Mitra and Smt. Mousumi Das from the enormous corpus. Songs and recitation by students and non-teaching staff added variety to the programme organized and conducted in a quiet, homely atmosphere. Achoring by Smt. Nolotpala Ghosh added extra gravity to obituary of Great Poet, Rabindranath Tagore.

Recently, the feather in the cap for this institution founded by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries in 1903 has been the recognition as a Centre with Potential for Excellence (CPE); with the ongoing process for re-accreditation by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), infrastructural requirements to implement our prospective academic projects and realize aspirations for all – round development of everyone associated with Bankura Christian College are expected to be met with greater hope and confidence. With 17 departments (English and Bengali offering their respective PF courses as well) the college seems destined to climb higher rungs in society in the days ahead; inter – institutional traffic and active participation in various walk of life by students and teachers alike have grown rapidly in the new millennium making it one of the distinguished colleges in our contemporary society.