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Tamil Nadu, which is now hosting the 44th Chess Olympiad, is taking their love for the game to places not many have gone before. New videos released on YouTube and other social media showed six scuba divers playing chess sixty feet deep under the sea in the Bay of Bengal. The description on the video says this undersea games happened on Sunday at a spot 5 kms off the coast near Neelangarai, and that they used specially-designed, heavy chess pieces to prevent them from being swept away.
Here is one of the video clips posted to Twitter.The team was led by scuba diving instructor SB Aravind Tharunsri. That's the person you'll find in the videos in a white shirt and chequered veshti. At the beginning of some video clips, he can be seen putting on a horse mask and painting 'Thambi' on his forearm to represent the mascot of the Chess Olympiad. "The Chess Olympiad in Chennai is a matter of pride for us. We want to celebrate,"
quoted Tharunsri as saying. Here is a longer video, courtesy Temple Adventures, shared by YouTube channel TellMyStory, on how they went about it.
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Tagore Museum from 1999-2001 and even curated a show titled, The Idea of Space and Rabindranath Tagore. One work in particular of four men with long white beards, wearing identical gowns, footwear, and a similar scowl, will produce giggles when you are told they are trying to ape Tagore. “Tagore never believed in idol worship but became an idol, a gurudev that everyone started worshipping him, and wanted to be him. They maintained the same beard, hair, and clothes. He had such a strong personality. Even if he stood next to an ornate door, you would still only see Tagore,” notes Das. This viewing and the resultant book are Das’s attempts to offer alternate spaces for these tongue-in-cheek political imageries with the purpose to educate the generations of the now. “This is not my critical composition or narration. I’m not here to judge whether Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah were right or wrong. Cartooning is a highly skilled and intelligent form of art but is dying out. The cartoonist left to publish their art on social media as there is no support from editors of magazines, journals, and the news media. Unlike back in those days, when all these artists in the.
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Sometime in the 1980s, a bunch of boys, most of them in their early twenties, found themselves on stage at the Calcutta International Jazz Festival. They used to be called Mohiner Ghoraguli, a band put together by Gautam Chattopadhyay who was audacious enough to write rock songs in Bangla. The fellow playing bass for them at the time was Biswanath Chattopadhyay, or Bishu, who ended up moving to the US soon after (1983). Now, he has two albums to his credit.
Bishu’s latest, Kolkata Stories, a jazz album, has its roots in the 2020 nationwide lockdown at the onset of the pandemic. He was in Kolkata then, suddenly finding himself locked in, the unpleasant experience, aggravated by Cyclone Amphan. Nevertheless, he channelled his thoughts to write 20 tunes, 10 of which made it to the album recorded in New York the following year.
Kolkata Stories is a lovely collection, a palette of conventional sounds within the contours of free-flowing, straight-ahead jazz. It doesn’t seek to overwhelm you at first listen. Rather the ideas suck you in gently. Mellow in general, but often punctuated by flourishes of the sax and trumpet, a searing violin.
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‘Wish I could go back and play my song’. Is that a thought that comes to your mind often when you think about Kolkata?
Absolutely. What happened is that I sent my singer the music. I just wanted her (Stav German) to vocalise as she had done in the past. Either she didn't read my emails completely, or whatever, but she said, ‘Oh Bishu, this is great. Where are the lyrics?’ And I said, ‘Oh my God, I don't have lyrics’. So, I wrote it literally in a week, every night before going to bed I'd stab at two lines. So that's how the lyrics came. But I haven’t been planning on any lyrics since Mohiner Ghoraguli days. The song talks about being stuck in Kolkata and then doctors and all that and then going back to play music. Normally, Kolkata is a place for song, right? I go there, get together with people and play. But this was a very strange space. So, ‘wish I could go back and play my song’ was to express that.
Now that you can look back, what would you say is the key behind Mohiner Ghoraguli leaving such an indelible mark on.
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work of the composer and double bassist] They used my bass, but I used their strings. It was like a scary thought. We were little kids. And so, this experience gave us a lot of confidence.
And after that?
So we just continued. In Kolkata, Abraham and I, and there was a guy named Kankar, we did a trio violin, banjo and bass. And we did some shows. This was when Mohiner Ghoraguli was getting scattered. I know Monida was very busy with his film. He even came to see one of our shows at Alliance. Kishore Chatterjee wrote about us. So, we knew we had some people who loved us and then, I said, okay, bass is my thing. Cello is a beautiful instrument, but bass offered more freedom, especially during jazz. And then I came to the US and just stuck with that.
You also list Ron Carter as one of your teachers. I mean, he's a legend. How did that connection happen?
I knew a percussionist who hooked us up. Ron turned out to be very fussy. He didn’t let me play his bass. I had to get my own. And I knew so many of.
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