Artlemi #6

Hello Artels,
Last few weeks have been very dry for our blog because we have not received sufficient number of good entries. We know its tough to come up with new ideas every week and its also true many of you have things to do with life and it’s hard to mange time for extra things like this.

I know there are few who visit the blog regularly and I hope we have been able to come up with nice posts for your liking. What is important though is to have good material to post every week and for that we need people to know about us. We are trying our best for that but without you it’s a impossible job. Please let others know, we need people who are interested in sharing their creations and we also need people to enjoy our blog. I hope all of you will step up and we all will make Artlemi a great source of entertainment for everyone.

Anyways, because of this we have decided to update the blog every 15 days from now on. It will be a fortnight thing starting today.

Hope this will give you enough time to come up with good creations for Artlemi.

Bye till first Sunday of next month,
ArkaĐ

In this week's Artlemi

Poems
জীবন (by Debolina Sen)
Metamorphosis (by Shinjana Das)

Photography
For a better tomorrow (by Chirantan Kar)
Creation of the nature (by Papia Ghosh)

Artlemi #5


Hello Artels,

Hope you have spent the first week of the new year in merriment and that was why you didn’t have time to send new entries and couldn’t comment in last week’s posts. What we don’t want is to bore you with posts that you don’t even find interesting to comment on.

With new year we are thinking about some new exiting ideas for Artlemi. If you have something that you want to see in Artlemi then please mail us your ideas at datta.sen@gmail.com. Anything interesting and artistic is always welcome.

 We are starting POLL as our new add on from next week. You will have a chance to share your opinion about important things and we will see what most of us are thinking as to be the right thing. There is another thing we want to start from next week. That is ‘THEME BASED CREATIONS’

We will give you a theme and you can send us your story, poem, article, drawing, photography, based on that theme. We will post the selected entries and will post the best one under “Post of the week” section. So start sending your entries and don’t forget to send your regular posts also. Your theme for next week: Man-versus-nature. Hope you all will find it interesting.

Hope you will like the entries we have for this week. Enjoy Artlemi and don’t forget to mail us your ideas.

Bye till next Sunday,

ArkaĐ  

In this week's Artlemi

Poems

Idiorythmic Revelations (by Ananya Ghosh)

Missing Link (by Shinjana Das)

My Inspiration (by Arka Datta)

Article

Bhangra (by Proma Bhattacharjee)

Artlemi #4


Hello Artels,

Wish you all an incredibly happy new year. 2010 was a year full of interesting events. I am sure all of you have found many great moments in your personal life and surely have learnt from your mistakes. This wisdom will help you to make 2011 a better year in all aspects. If we leave aside our personal aspects for a moment, we will realize last year was surely eventful worldwide. Let’s look back for a moment to our own country, India.

Politically; like always, there were almost nothing positive. S. Kalmadi, A. Raja and many more politicians are under CBI scanner with scams and money swooping charges. Not enough improvement in public health and education aspects. Economically, things have not changed much from past years except wealthy people got more affluent.

Miserable train accidents in the first half of 2010 and Kolkata metro mishaps in the later half proved we are living way under safety with our transportations. 

Terrorism, like always, was a life taking issue. Maoists became stronger, Varanasi bomb blasts killed innocent people, still terrorists like Kashav has been treated royally. Our government sucked real hard throughout 2010.   

Not everything was a mess though. Commonwealth games Delhi 2010, despite of all the controversies, was a well earned success. India’s success in sports was superlative in 2010. Cricket and chess, like always brought glory. Boxing, badminton and athletics crossed all our past limits. We sure had our moments in golf and tennis too. It seems, with more and more talented men leaving India for better future, sports is our only chance of triumph, for today and tomorrow.  

Well 2010 is a history now. With its good and bad aspects, it was surely an important year. 365 days of our life that wont return, no matter we worked it out right or wrong, it is history. Be confident looking ahead for whatever you achieved in the first decade of the second millennium. Learn from your mistakes and never repeat, try new and exiting mistakes, there are plenty more to commit and learn. Improve your life and help others to do the same.

Enjoy your 2011 when it’s still new and keep sending your creations to datta.sen@gmail.com and enjoy reading Artlemi.

 

Bye till next Sunday,

ArkaĐ  

In this week's Artlemi

Poems
Something is missing (by Surela Mukherjee)
The yellow lantern (by Paulami Guha Biswas)
A reflection (by Shinjana Das)

Articles
North Eastern Folk-a Paradise Unexplored (Part 2) (by Proma Bhattacharjee)
In Its Presence (by Rahul Roy)

Story
In Silence (by Lipika Datta)

Photography
Lives in the silence (by Lipika Datta)
A bridge to nowhere (by Chirantan Kar) 

Merry Christmas All

I hope all of you are enjoying your Christmas. So are we and thats why we cant update Artlemi this week. We will be back next week. Happy new uear in advanced.

Here we are, the Artlemi team, wishing you a great weekend for the last time for this year. See you all in 2011.

Artlemi #3

Artlemi #3

Hello Artels,

From the very first day our blog got online, I have been asked this question billion times: “What does Artlemi mean?” I think it’s a good time I describe the thought behind the name. 

‘Antel’ and ‘Antlemi’ are two very famous and commonly used words in Bengali vocabulary. There are many people in here, who are not Bengalis or not so sure about the meaning. As these words are not included in most of the dictionaries, I did not get proper meaning of these words. What I know and from what little information I got; we can take ‘pseudo intellectuality’ as a much closer meaning for ‘Antlemi’. Interesting thing is, although Bengalis gave it a proper use, this word was actually first used by French. The meaning of ‘Antlemi’ was “When someone uses illusion of words to create a  

false impression about their knowledge on something.”

Over time this meaning has been changed due to wrong uses among Bengalis. An ‘Antel’ is that person who performs ‘Antlemi’. The thing I feel sorry for is people calling someone ‘Antel’ just because they don’t understand his or her views or perspectives. I have been called ‘Antel’ a number of times just because of having my own different ideas about something. You too, I am sure have been accused to be an ‘Antel’ just because of liking some movies or books that the accuser don’t understand or think is not understandable. What’s more painful? I have seen people tagging poets, directors and painters as ‘Antels’ just because they don’t understand their creations. Well, if creating something that not everyone can understand is ‘Antlemi’, then I am surely proud to be an ‘Antel’.

The first three letters of ‘Artlemi’ forms the word ‘art’. Art, a word we all are familiar with. Art is creating what you feel. Anything formed with imagination, passion and urge of creation, is art. A painting that mesmerize, an architecture that hypnotize, a film that captivate, a song that enthrall, a dance that fascinate, a piece of literature that spellbind, a photograph that appeal, is a piece of art. Art is the result of consciously arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect.

So here it is. When art meets antlemi, the power of creating for the sake of creation, it becomes “Artlemi”. When you don’t think how people will react and just create what you feel, that is Artlemi. When you please your urge of creation despite of what others believe, that is Artlemi and you are an Artel. Be proud of it.  

Hope I have made you understand the meaning. Even if you don’t understand and call me an antel, that’s okay. After all an ‘Artel’ does not care.

Keep sending your artlemis to datta.sen@gmail.com and enjoy reading Artlemi.

  

Bye till next Sunday,

ArkaĐ  

In this week's Artlemi

Poems
Why (by Shinjana Das)
শুধুই হাসি (by Tanushree singha )


Articles
The fear of being Haunted (by Rahul Roy)
North Eastern Folk- a Paradise unexplored (by Proma Bhattacharjee)
A Day in the Life of an Artist (by Rahul Roy)


Story
In Silence (by Lipika Datta)


Photography
Wish to know you better (by Chirantan Kar)

Artlemi #2

Artlemi #2

Hello Artels,

Last week I left a question for all of you about Stephen Hawking’s theory of “God did not create the universe”. From the level of interest you all have shown it’s clear that leaving a question every week won’t be a smart movement from my side.

For the last few days I have been spending a lot of time to come up with an idea for this editorial. Last evening just to get an idea of what is going around the globe, I turned on the TV. It’s not that much of an idiot box, as many people call it, if you go through the right channels. I was having my noodles and surfing the channels. The best thing about being a serial channel surfer is that you get the sum of what is going around, very rapidly.

While looking around, my finger stopped when I found a beautiful scene on ‘Discovery channel’. It was an open blue sky and sun burning just in the middle. A bird, which I could not recognize at first,    

was flying in a circle like it was the emperor of the world. As the camera zoomed I suddenly understood what it was. It was a vulture, circling over something it had its eye on. As the camera lowered I was shaken to my very soul. I saw an open dried out land with a single broken hut standing strangely. Just beside the hut there was something, something black and it was moving. As the camera zoomed; it appeared to be something like a human child, thinner than you can ever imagine. The child was all bones wrapped with dry skin; I felt he can break into pieces if there were strong wind. Then the camera focused on his face and I was stunned to see his eyes. They were lively, full of joy; yes ‘joy’, because he was playing. He was playing with a toy, a toy we were lucky enough not to have as a child. It was, believe it or not, a human skull. The vulture was waiting…

Suddenly I was not hungry anymore. The food felt heavy, my eyes felt heavier. There was a question in my mind; ‘why?’, what have I done to deserve my life, all these beautiful things around me, I was not ever satisfied with? It was like the e-mail many of you surely been forwarded to, about people not having food to eat while we complaint about the taste of ours. I was not feeling like eating anymore. I put my food on the table, came back to my room, stood in front of my window and started thinking about the motive of my existence. I have read about Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, donating a huge portion of their money to organizations, working on issues like malnutrition in third world countries. I am not rich enough to do that but I wish I could do something. There are many websites where they donate money for our one click and even we can donate some money if we want. I checked few of them and I did what I could, clicked some buttons. Five minutes of our life can mean a lot of them. Please come forward and join them. You don’t have to pay, few clicks and you will feel a lot better about yourself. I did and I will keep clicking till I am able to do something more.

I know this editorial is particularly not something to leave a smile in the corner of your lips, that is how I always wanted to write and I am sorry for that but I wanted to unload some pain from my mind to people who, I am sure, will understand the needs of those children.

Well, keep sending your creations to datta.sen@gmail.com and enjoy reading Artlemi. Hopefully one day with your support we will grow enough to help those people in needs.

 Bye till next Sunday,

ArkaĐ