Pride of Baghbazar

Baghbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav & Exhibition

The history of BAGBAZAR SARBOJONIN DURGOTSAB AND EXHIBITION is an inseparable part of the history and progress of Bengali culture for near about a century it has seen all the transitions and critical periods of history during this long enriched span of time.We can divide this glorious history in two very distinguished parts; the first period is from 1919 to 1930 and 1930 onwards. In 1919 first time it was celebrated by the people Bagbazar at Sarkar-House, 55,Bagbazar Street at the junction of Nebubagan Lane and Bagbazar Street and it was named as “Nebubagan Baroyari Durga-puja”. It was continued in that very place for more three years. In 1924 it was shifted at the junction of Bagbazar Street and Pashupati Bose Lane. Next year it was placed at Kantapukur and in 1927 it tookplace in the Bagbazar Kali-temple.In 1926 with the remarkable effort of renowned social worker Nagendra Nath Ghoshal some of the erudites and other well-known people joined the organization and it took the shape of an proper organization. He is also the person who gave the name of the organization too.In 1929 for the occasion of the puja an exhibition took place.In 1930 alder-man of Calcutta Municipal Corporation Durgacharan Bandyopadhyay was elected as the president of this organization and he continued the exhibition in bigger form in the consequences of independence movements and Swadeshi concepts ; even he renamed the organization as BAGBAZAR SARBOJONIN DURGOTSAB AND EXHIBITION. For the required space to organize the exhibition he selected this very place where the “Durganagar” of today is situated. This place was known as “Metal-Yard” formerly, and it used to the storage of Calcutta Corporation’s road-repair department. Durgacharan Bandyopadhyay requested the Mayor of Calcutta Netaji Subhash Ch. Bose then to requested the Mayor of Calcutta Netaji Subhash Ch. Bose then for the due permission. Mr. Bose approved his request and agreed for a historical joint exhibition with the participation of Corporation and this fellow organization together. He also donated five hundred rupees to this organization.From 1930 itself the inaugural and closing ceremony of the occasion over here is a very integral and important part and an innumerable fellow persona had their presence in these occasion. The inauguration takes place on the shukla-panchami of the month of Ashwina where as the closing ceremony takes place on the day of the sublimation of Goddess Laxmi. Dignitaries like Santosh Kr. Basu, Netaji Subhash Ch. Bose,Acharya Prafulla Ch. Roy, Sir Harishankar Pal and others put that occasion to a different height. In 1938-1939 this organization was privileged by the active participation of Netaji Subhash Ch Bose as the president. Besides of Puja-s two more occasion that has given a different identity to this celebration over here are Birashtami Utsab in the morning of Mahastami and the Sindur-Utsab in the morning of Bijaya Dashami. Patriot Pulin Das the renowned member of Anusulan Samity used to be present in the occasion of Birastami till when he was physically unable to join it.After the connection with Swadeshi Movement the organization had a different importance and people from around and outside the city started to visit the celebration in a great extent and this celebration ultimately came as the celebration of people… From the late ninties the organization tried to move the higher authority for converting the metal yard to a parmanent park under the controll of this organization. With the help of some other important dignitarias ultimately in the initial years of this decade the dream came true though the present committee negotiating with the authority for having the independent charge of maintaining this park. We are hopeful to have all the charge of this park soon and to keep on with our tradition longer.


For details, plz visit the official website of Baghbazar Sarbojonin
www.bsde.org

Baghbazar & MohunBagan Club

For the people of Baghbazar, Mohunbagan is not only a club. Mohunbagan is a culture,Mohunbagan is an emotion, Mohunbagan is the passions, Mohunbagan is the everything of football. Since 1889, Mohunbagan has been associated with Baghbazar as inseparable.
Mohunbagan was born initiative taken by three elite North Kolkatan Family, Mitra family of Phariapukur, Bose family of Shyampukur & Sen Family of Baghbazar. From the very first beginning, Baghbazar Sen Family has been associated with Mohunbagan. Manilal Sen from Sen family was the first football cricket captain of Mohubagan, among the Bengalis he was the first round arm bowler in Maidan.
The milestone of Indian sports is the wining of IFA shield of Mohunbagan in 1911. Eleven bare foot Bengali Babus won the prestigious football tournaments defeating the British team. After this wining, Sports as well as football in India matured enough to give challenge to the British. In the golden eleven of 1911, Goalkeeper Hiralal Mukerjee was from Baghbazar.
Kanai Sen, son of Manilal Sen was also a renowned footballer of Mohunbagan. Mantu Sen was the most famous cricketer of MohunBagan from Sen Family. He played in Ranji. It is needless to mention about Utpal Chatterjee, the son of soil of Bgahbazar.

Please Visit http://www.mohunbaganclub.com & http://www.mohunbaganac.com

Baghbazar & Ramkrishna Mission

Returning from United States, Swami Vivekananda started initiative to start an association of the followers of Shri Ramkrishnadev. Swamiji didn’t initiated any new religion. His concept yields Ramkrishna Mission. In Balaram Mandir {Picture Above},on 1st may, 1897, Swami Vivekananda first announced about it in a meeting of Ramkrishna-followers. In that meeting, the mission was announced as well as the activities. Swamiji was the first general president of it, Swami Bramhananda was the first President, Swami Yogananda was vice president. Attorney Narendranath Mitra was secretary; Dr Sashibhusan Ghosh & Saratchanda Sarkar was the assistant secretary. For the first three year, every Sunday they meet at Balaram Boses’s house.
Presently, there are two main centers of Ramkrishna Mission is in Baghbazar, Balaram Mandir, & Ramkrishna Math alias Mayer Bari. Ramkrishna Mission born today 110 years ago, and today it has more than 200 branches all over the world. Ramakrishna Math, 'UDBODHAN', 1 no Udbodhan Lane, Baghbazar, Kolkata-3 , is a branch of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math, (Worldwide headquarter of all RKM centres and sub-centres.) The centre is well known as The Mother's House (Mayer Bari) and also Udbodhan. Udbodhan Office is the premier publishing house of Bengali books of Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission and has immensely contributed to the spread of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and Vedanta ideology through its publications.Apart from the daily worship, publication work and the magazine, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Baghbazar is active in its task of spreading the ideal as preached by Sri Ramakrishna.On every Sunday, Thursday and Friday, regular classes on scriptures and other books of Sri Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature are conducted for the devotees after the evening arati. Special worship is conducted on the birth days of Swami Saradananda and the Holy Mother, and also on the Maha Ashtami day of Durga Puja.

http://www.udbodhan.org/ugal/ugal.htm

Baghbazar Ghats

Kolkata has brought up by the lovely care of the river Hoogly. The British came in Kolkata in waterways, & they choosed Kolkata. But unfortunately, all of we are going to forget the importance of it, to restore the glamorous past of the North Kolkata, and nowadays, the riverbanks have never being any importance issue to the politicians, so it never got any importance. Only Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Parimal Biswas& Tarak Banerjee are only representatives who took initiative for restoration of few Ghats
We should concentrate our focus to the Northern part, especially only at Baghbazar. In present experience, we have seen that restoration has been initiated by some local & national organizations, but in this process, the entire history was deleted. But these ghats are part & parcel of the old Babu Culture of Kolkata’s History. They are the living witness of the three hundred years of Kolkata. Our Motto is to restore them, as we can’t ignore our past, to make the future.

Welcome to Baghbazar

Welcome All



Welcome all people of Baghbazar to this Blogspot. This is an extension to the existing Baghbazar Community in Orkut http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=13392297. I am grateful to those Orkut member who has supported me, has written their view, counterviews regularly in my community. I am grateful to my friends Mayur, Soumya, My Senior like Satrajitda, or those people whom I get known via net like Pranitadi or Rusha. In next 13th of May, Baghbazar Community will celebrate her first Birthday. When I am writing this entry, present member of Baghbazar Community are
around 124. Without the constant inspirations of the members, fellows, this figure was not possible.



Why Such a Blog?

Blog Culture is not new. In spite of tremendous acceptance, there is few limitations in Orkut Community, like word limit, only orkut member can view or post in it, there is not enough space for posting of photograph, which I think cant be a handicapped to this Blog. Possibly Baghbazar is going to be the first locality in Kolkata which is going to be launch its own Blog.


Mission of the Blog…

There is no such specific mission… a lot of magazines has been launched on Baghbazar, but it died simultaneously… last one may be Sutanuti Katha launched by Suman Bhowmick. My intention is to a free space of Internet users of Baghbazar where they can share their view irrespective of their physical distance… so it is not important where you are residing at present, Delhi or Detroit, Mumbai or Michigan, Chennai or California…

So….


Welcome to Baghbazar

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