Rhythm Divine Poets’ Poetry Meet on Colours at Art Fair

Rhythm Divine Poets’ Poetry Meet on Colours at Art Fair Season 5

Dear Bookworms,

Welcome to another season of poetic evening,

We had a wonderful time in Art Fair supporting the endevours and creative zeal. Its always exciting to see creativity thrive and bind us in warmth. 

Rhythm Divine's poetic meet was also one such event. Love art, love creativity.

 Rhythm Divine Poets group organised a gala poetry meet at the fifth season of Sufia’s Art Fair  on Sunday 6th December, 2015. This was second such association, the first being at last season’s Art Fair. Art Fair 5 was inaugurated on 4th December by noted photographer Kounteya Sinha, fashion designer Lopamudra Mandal Saha, artist and professor of RBU Sohini Dhar, and social activist Urmi Basu of New Light. The fair is on till 8th December. The first day also saw the performance of the noted singer Tapasi and her band. On Saturday the Art Fair hosted the book cover launch of Defiant Dreams: Tales of Everyday Divas edited by Rhiti Bose and Lopa Banerjee. The event was followed by songs by the talented singer Tiasa Ray.

Art Fair has long been the place where poetic jamming has taken place before any poetry groups came into vogue, other than a few niche ones, and poets have always looked forward to it. This time it was no exception. There was increased participation from poets who love the warmth of the event and the quality of the poems recited. The theme of the day was “Colours” and amidst an atmosphere of art, paintings, photography, craft, lifestyle products and music poets sat and recited in front of an august gathering. 

Among the guests were Prof. Jharna Sanyal, former Head of the Department of English, Calcutta University, and Shri Dinesh Vadera of Mudra Arts. Both Prof. Sanyal and Dineshji are themselves poets. Prof. Sanyal has also been the judge of the Rhythm Divine online poet of the month contest. It was a privilege to have such eminent personalities at the meet.

The evening started with the felicitation of the guests and the awarding of certificates to the online poetry competition winners Niladri Mahajan and Ipsita Ganguly. Among the poets who read their poems  mainly on the theme “Colours” and wore the colour they recited on were Kushal Poddar, Niladri Mahajan, Ipsita Ganguly, Aiman Abdulla, Ranjani Chowdhury, Bob D’Costa, Sana Mohammed, Rahul Mall, Samrat Dey and others including the hosts Sufia Khatoon and Amit Shankar Saha. Prof. Jharna Sanyal as well as Shri Dinesh Vadera too read their compositions. Dineshji’s poem was in Gujarati and so for the first time there were poems in English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati recited at a single event of Rhythm Divine Poets group. Prof. Sanyal was impressed by the compositions of the poets. 

Some of her old students like Lopa Banerjee and Anindita Bose too joined later. The evening saw a fitting culmination in an enthralling musical performance by Samrat Dey. Rhythm Divine poets group is thankful to all those who turned up to make this event a grand success.