হোয়াটস-অ্যাপের ফ্যামিলি গ্রুপে রাতুর এত সুন্দর লেখা পড়ে আমারও কেমন যেন বেশ লেখা-লেখা পাচ্ছে। এটা অনেকটা সেই খোঁড়ার অলিম্পিক দৌড়নোর ইচ্ছের মত। খোঁড়া বলে কি কিছুই করব না? অলিম্পিক না দৌড়োই, আট-দশ পা হাঁটার চেষ্টা করতে আপত্তি কোথায়?
এই তো সেদিনের কথা। তখন আমি কিছুটা ছোট সাইজের ছিলাম, আরে না না, পাড়ার হুলো বেড়ালটার থেকে বেশ কিছুটা বড়ই ছিলাম। সে কি, এতে হাসার কী আছে? মানুষকে এরকম টাক-মাথারই থাকতে হবে এরকম কোন মাথার দিব্যি আছে নাকি? বিশ্বাস কর বা না কর তখন আমার মাথা ভর্তি চুল ছিল আর ভুঁড়ি একেবারেই ছিলনা।
যাদবপুরে আমার এক স্বপ্নপুরী ছিল। হ্যাঁ, ওই সেই সাদা গোল বাড়িটা, আর তার ব্রাউন রঙের দরজা, একটা গোল হাতল যেটা ঘোরালেই দরজা খুলে যেত, আর সেই দরজার ওপরে পিতলের ফলকে লেখা 37/5 জ্বল-জ্বল করত। বাড়ীর সামনে এক-ফালি জমি, তাতে কিছুটা বাগান, জমি পেরিয়ে লাল সিমেন্টে সবুজ বর্ডার দেওয়া বারান্দা। জাদু ছিল ওই দরজা পেরিয়ে।
দরজা পেরিয়ে ছোট্ট একটা ঘর, এ ঘরের চেহারা মাঝে মাঝেই বদলাত। কখন তাতে পড়ার টেবিল, কখন বসার জায়গা, কখনো খালি, কখন মোটর-সাইকেল, কখন কোন সকালে টেবিলের ওপর চেয়ার চড়িয়ে তার ওপর ছোট্ট দাদার গ্যাঁট হয়ে বসে মহারাজ হয়ে যাওয়া, বা দেখিয়ে দেখিয়ে মজা করে অল্প অল্প নুন খেতে খেতে ছোড়দির গুন-গুন করে গান গাওয়া। জিজ্ঞেস করলাম, “কি খাচ্ছিস রে?” উত্তর এলো “খাবি?” বললাম, “হ্যাঁ”। “তাহলে চোখ বন্ধ করে হা কর।“ তার পর মুখে এক মুঠো নুন ঠুসে দেওয়া — হা হা হা হা হা।
সঞ্জয় বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ৽ কলকাতা ৽ ২৮শে ফেব্রুয়ারী ২০২৪
Music is a creative expression of human experiences, a medium of expression applying different skill sets. So, music mostly tries to express human experiences and emotions as approximate and creative translations.
The following audio-video mix aims to create musical visualizations of raga music quickies. These videos are recreations of music in visual forms. These videos surely are not examples of reverse engineering but may be termed “Creative Reverse Engineering”, where the music is a source of fresh ideas expressed in non-music media.
I am indeed thrilled that on September 23, 2023, Naad Nartan felicitated Dr. Pragya Pyasi with the Best Paper award for their 2022 National Seminar organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Pragya is the first among my disciples to get felicitated for excellence in academic writing!
Her paper titled ‘Do the YouTube Views Count Reflects the Seniority and Acceptance of Indian Classical Musicians within Fraternity or the Vice-Versa?’ was published in UGC CARE Listed Naad-Nartan Journal of Dance & Music [ISSN:2349-4654], Vol-10, Issue-1, June 2022, DOI: https://zenodo.org/record/7056304
Pragya is the first among my disciples to get felicitated for excellence in academic writing!
Here is an insertion from a Facebook post of September 26, 2023.
Dr. Pintu Saha [pen name Pramit], Head of the Department of Music at Assam Central University, commented below…
India has enough human resources to match or can be quickly updated to match most of the publication requirements.
Expected benefits
This document will assist in managing the academic publication system for the community that can use AI to its advantage. The identified difficulties during the process will generate areas where the AI developers may focus on and update AI support for publications.
The concept
One can maximize the time economy by generating an AI and chosen HR-supported system for publication management. This system should develop acceptable quality publishable materials in larger quantities.
India has substantial human resources to employ HR intelligently to its advantage. One can generate an algorithm for the work. The publication management will include the following:
intelligent work distribution to HR
introducing available Artificial Intelligence to the advantage
One can:
painstakingly list the whole process in minute details
create several alternative methods for a single stage
Frame a good number of templates, wherever applicable, for each section of the process, e.g., content production, error detection, statement of compliance, and statement of deviations.
Frame the responsibility distribution policy for different preparation, production, and distribution stages.
A. Content Production
Topic generation
Topic idea distribution
Generating structure and alternative structures of paper-collection or chapters.
A good number of content creation templates for different types of content generation.
Different combinations of guidelines for generating different writing templates.
Method of combining components in templates to match authors’ preferences.
Applications of AI in content generation.
A1. Error detection system and statement of compliance and deviations
A straightforward method to detect compromises in maintaining the system.
Authors’ declarations on adherence to the content generation policy and deviation areas, if any, to comply with any specific paper’s inherent requirements.
B. Editorial Policy
A detailed editorial policy requires to be framed.
The sub-editors must ascertain the use of the editorial templates.
The sub-editorial report will include several questions that have MCQs and short reports.
Declarations of the Sub-editors on maintenance and deviations from the policy.
The Section Editor, after satisfactory validation, will send for copyediting.
After successful validation of the copyedited manuscripts, the article or chapter may be selected for publication.
C. HR identification
Essential qualities of execution of a part above in A and B.
Identification method to pinpoint HR with required qualities and attitude.
Work distribution policy.
The expected outputs of this document
The output of this planning will be a detailed publication manual with detailed indexing. With its detailed indexing, this manual will help HR with guidance for utilizing AI and generating probable answers to most issues during the production, validation, and distribution processes.
When you wish to stroll away and read the poetic interpretations of pragyAdhArA; please scroll down.
Self Incarnated pragyAdhArA
The beginning
Pragya, my disciple Dr Pragya Pyasi, called me in the afternoon, it was 05 October 2021. She asked if I knew any raga that takes Shudh Re, Shudh Ga, Tivra m and Komal dha. I could not remember any such raga but thought rendering of ‘Maru-Vasant’ should take these notes. I shared the puzzle with some of my musician friends but received no solution.
The following day it occurred that I could try to frame some ragas with these notes. Here are four ragas that came to me immediately. However, later I remembered that there was a raga ‘Purvi-Kalayan’ but not popular. On YouTube search, I discovered ‘Maru-Vasant’, but that takes both the M and m.
A few days later, Professor Rajesh Shah of Banaras Hindu University and Sri Anindya Banerjee, Kolkata, pointed out a Carnatic raga ‘latAngI’ that takes these notes. I then realized that it slipped off my memory, and I remembered I certainly listened to Nikhilda [Pandit Nikhil Banerjee] playing ‘latAngI’.
Ragas that take R G m [Tivra] and d [Komal] | P1= Mandra P
1. Maru Vasant
Arohan: S G m P m G m d S’
Avarohan: S’ N d P m G, m G R S R – S
2. Vishnu Kalyan
Arohan: N1 R G m d N S’
Avarohan: S’ N d P m G P GR – S
3. Purvi Kalyan
Arohan: N1 R G m d N S’
Avarohan: S’ N d P m P G M G, G m P GR – S
4. Pragyadhara
The idea of naming this raga as pragyAdhArA came to me as Pragya first put before the R-G-m-d puzzle before me and that was the source of the birth of this raga. You can listen to a brief AlAp on this raga in the audio-clip at the top.
This is a chalan based raga.
Chalan:
A. SP1 – S – R S, N1 S GR, N1 S R G N1 S R P1 d1-
B. N1 m m G GR S, d1 P1
C. P1 G – R, R m P GR – S, d1 P1 S
D. m1 P1 S-, P1 S G d – P
E. G m P d – m, GmPdN- N d P, m G – R
F. R G m d, R G N d P
G. R G m d, R G m P, G N N D P
H. m G R, R G m d, m d N S’
I. d N S’ R’ G’ R’
J. P S’ – R’ S’, S’ N d P G -, m G GR – S
Arohan: P1 S R S, N1 S R G m G, m G R G m d P, m d N S’
Avarohan: S’ N d P G, m G R S
Version II
Pragyadhara – II
S G P G, m d m G, PG S GR
P1 S G – S, N1 R N1 P1 d1
d1 N1 R G R N1 d1 P1 S
P1 N1 S G – S, P1 S GR
S G P, m d – P
m d N, m d, G P, P G S GR
S G P S’ N m d m G, PG S
G P S’ R’ S’ N R1 P d
S’ N P d m G, P G S R – S
Important combinations:
S G P
N1 R N1 P1 d
Poetic Interpretations of prgyAdhArA
Medha Persaud* writes in a WhatsApp message on 07 October 2021
In the early morning,
Just after dawn,
When the sun is but a
painting in the sky,
There is a gentle rain
Ever so light,
a wisp,
tip tapping on flecks of light
Softly
Softly
Softly…
That is how I feel after listening to this creation.
Fire and water at their gentlest. Is the sun reflecting the water or is the water reflecting the sun? No one knows because your raga doesn’t say. Beautiful. pragyAdhArA is born.
* Medha Persaud [nee Ramnath] visited India during 1990’s to learn sitar. She took admission at the Khairagarh University. Now, Medha is serving as a Senior Scientist in Molecular Biology and Genetics in a Biomedical Company in New Jersey [USA].
