2 K+ Chandan Bandyopadhyay
12th June, 2025
Dear Family Members, very
good morning!
Firstly, a big round of applause to the viewers who keep us rolling on!
Introduction:
While checking my mail
inbox this morning, I found an order asking me to write this editorial of my
own. She who sent the order makes me feel privileged…..
In this journey we've been on for the last month and a half, it's felt that every time a writer tells the truth about a manuscript to a friend-author, they lose that friend, or see that friendship dim and fade away to a ghost of what it was formerly.
Every time a writer
tells the truth about a manuscript to a stranger-author, he makes an enemy. If
the writer loves his friend and fears losing him, he lies to his friend.
But what’s the good of
straining himself to lie to strangers? And, with like insistence, what’s the
good of making enemies anyway?
Furthermore, he is being
continuously requested by friends and strangers to read their work, pass comment
upon it, and surprisingly even asked to advise on their personal matters, health and family, and inter-personal issues, etc. This is properly the
work of a literary bureau. A writer is not a literary bureau.
If he is witless enough
to become a literary bureau, he will cease to be a writer. They didn’t even consider that the then he didn’t have time to write.
Also, as a charitable
bureau, he will receive no pay. Wherefore he will soon go bankrupt and himself
live upon the charity of friends if he has not already made them all his
enemies by telling them truth; while he will be holds his spouse and children
went their melancholy way to the poorhouse.
Sympathy for the
struggling known and unknown is all very well. It is beautiful – but there are
so many struggling unknowns, something like several millions of them. And
sympathy can be worked too hard.
Sympathy begins at home.
The writer would far rather allow the multitudinous unknowns to remain unknown
than to allow his near and dear ones to occupy pauper pallets and potter’s
fields.
In the last week for
some obvious reason, I telephoned a friend who understands Indian classical
music to check the particular raga of a film song; he was surprised and asked
me, "Despite being a student of music, how come you can tell this?"
He said it rightly, but may I not tell him that, please do not confine one who
creates; he who creates cannot be termed as an intruder.
Since its inception, in WEism, "ism" is less, but WE are like the Bay of Bengal trying to hug the Baltic Sea. A family wherein we dwell and discuss, we dine and create together consists of our parents, children, sisters, brothers, and friends, reflecting a society within it. So far as the journey we've had to date is a good go.
I need to share the
following:
Stats:
1.
Some forty days back, the
journey of this blog started; in a month, the number of viewers touched 1,000;
in the last 10 days, the viewership stood at 2,000+.
2. Viewers from India are 85%; the
remaining are from the countries of Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
Your Contribution Matters!
1.
We have received contributions from parents and
children from north to south, and that fuels a smooth take off this blog and
WhatsApp group in harmony.
2. We shall remain thankful to the regular
contributors, viz., Smt. Minati Ghosh, Smt. Sipra Banerjee, Sri. Biman Banerjee
(Sir), Ms. Diya Das, Ms. Gopa Mukherjee, Dr. Debabrata Paul, Master Mann
Banerjee, Smt. Suchismita Chakraborty, Master Rajbeer Sarkar, Ms. Pritha Biswas
and Ms. Writi Ghosh.
3. We shall remain respectful to the creators irrespective of their fields; we used their wisdom and, without their contributions, our mind would be a ball of wax.
Financials:
NO, we are not asking for fund rather we would like to hear from you whether we should activate AdSense in this blog, which can bring in some money. If yes, please also suggest to us what the utilization of the fund would be. If you say NO, please take note that it is not needed to meet our personal expenses, but we could have spent this for philanthropic purposes.
You may send your suggestion to our WhatsApp group; we have nothing to hide beneath the carpet.
Initially, we are mapping to go for the following:
1. To explore the language of nature, music;
2. Soon we will publish literary works in other languages ……
3. Documentary film
4. Creative works and articles shall be continued as they are.
5. Stay with us, and please read it thoroughly. This group has tremendous potential;
who can predict the days to come?
Do
not think me cheeky for writing this. I only hope we may sometime meet, and I
shall be able, perhaps, to say what I cannot write.
Please
keep this family functional!
Shall remain thankfully
YOURS,
for and on behalf of the BoEds
Chandan Bandyopadhyay
Biman Banerjee Gopa Mukherjee Elija Gayen
Pritha Biswas Writi Ghosh
Chandan Bandyopadhyay
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