RAMKINKAR BAIJ Award to my father Sculptor Madhab Chandra Bhattacharjee by Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal

Inauguration of Orissa State Maritime Museum at Cuttack. I served as a Member of the Technical Advisory Committee to commissioning the project.

Review of Boat Exhibition in Bengali Newspaper Ebela (4.3.2013 page No. 10)

Or: ebela.in/details/5236-25422937.html

Some photographs of Exhibition on Traditional Bengal Boats at Tarani Majhir Ghat, Salt Lake Stadium. Organised by Backward Classes Welfare Department, Govt. of West Bengal

Kaile Bachhari

Photograph by Protim Banerjee (protimbanerjee1@gmail.com)

Photograph by Protim Banerjee (protimbanerjee1@gmail.com)

Dholai

Photograph by Protim Banerjee (protimbanerjee1@gmail.com)

Goloiya

Photograph by Protim Banerjee (protimbanerjee1@gmail.com)

Sampan

Photograph by Protim Banerjee (protimbanerjee1@gmail.com)

‎12th to 14th February 2013.
Exhibition of Models on Heritage Boats of Bengal.
Venue: Tarani Majhir Ghat, Salt Lake Stadium (close to VIP Gate). Kolkata
Time: 2 to 7 pm.
Organizer: Backward Classes Welfare Department. Government of West Bengal.

Your presence will encourage me. If you need any assistance call me at +91 9433900712. or mail me: swarup.bhattacharyya@gmail.com

 

Durga and Boat: Debi Durga is returning to in-laws house by Boat

 

Varsities to showcase replicas of Tagore boats

Varsities to showcase replicas of Tagore boats

 If anybody knows about the structural details of 'Chapala' (a boat used by Rabindranath) please inform. 
My interest on:

1. Material used 
2. Material used for joining
3. Design taken from 
4. Number of persons accommodated. 
5. Original photograph of Chapala

Inflated Skin of Bullock: Used as 'Hide Float Raft'

Northern India as well as northern Pakistan river craft.
Early Reference: Inflated skins as 'Floats' is depicted on the 1st Century BC Stupa I at Sanchi.  

Hulk Planking in Inland cargo of the Ganges

2012..........................wish you all the very best

Fire asa

After 8 years now i am in kolkata. my new contact number: +91 9433900712

a paper on boats of Bengal by Jean Deloche (1991)

"Boats and Ships in Bengal Terracotta Art" in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient

go through: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/befeo_0336-1519_1991_num_78_1_1766

Ole Crumlin-Pedersen is no more with us

Founder of Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark died on October 14, 2011.
He is the person who introduced me to the experts on boats. I lost my teacher....
- Swarup

http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk//en/about-us/ole-crumlin-pedersen/

Museum on Boats of Bangladesh

http://rolexawards.com/en/the-laureates/runakhanmarre-laureates-in-paris.jsp

http://www.friendship-bd.org/news/view/exhibition-on-traditional-boats-of-bangladesh-32#

My New Contact Number.

My new contact number:
+91 8764386319
Please erase my earlier number (+91 9868607329) from your memory

Bengal 1418

 

creator of this card: Shivaditya Sen (shivaditya@gmail.com)

Nad (iron sheeted large container used in juggery preparation) as boat at Masanjore Dam, Mayurakshi river (a tributary of Ganga)

year 2011

এসো, এসো, এসো হে বৈশাখ।
তাপসনিশ্বাসবায়ে মুমূর্ষুরে দাও উড়ায়ে,
বৎসরের আবর্জনা দূর হয়ে যাক।।
যাক পুরাতন স্মৃতি, যাক ভুলে-যাওয়া গীতি,
অশ্রুবাষ্প সুদূরে মিলাক।।
মুছে যাক গ্লানি, ঘুচে যাক জরা,
অগ্নিস্নানে শুচি হোক ধরা।
রসের আবেশরাশি শুষ্ক করি দাও আসি,
আনো আনো আনো তব প্রলয়ের শাঁখ।
মায়ার কুজ্ঝটিজাল যাক দূরে যাক।।

-রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

an Amazing Museum on Boat

Viking Ship Museum of Roskilde, Danmark is a museum of traditional boats.

please go through: http://vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/index.php?id=1246&L=1 

Boat Makers of Balagarh - a report_xvid.avi

need suggestion

We need a Noukoghar  

(Boat Museum)

 
Open Air 

Living 

Eco-Museum

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মুক্তাঙ্গনে

জীবন্ত

প্রাকৃতিক জাদুঘর 

হউক

'নৌকোঘর' 

মতামত প্রত্যাশী  

Bengal Rafts (Bhaela)

Makeshift raft is quite common in rural Bengal.
Lets look into the type/variety-
Plantain raft / Kalar Bhaela: widely used in rural areas. Lifespan: few days. Mainly used at the time of flood.
Sholar Bhaela (Pith Raft): Sholar Bahela is not so common but used in Jhargram area of West Medinipur district. Used mainly in fishing. Longevity is two to four years. Shola (scientific name: Aeschymene aspera)
Kharer Bhaela: Temporary raft last for only few hours made of bundle of straw. Mainly used in fishing.
Gharar Bhaela: Widely used in East Medinipur and Howrah district to collect Lotus flower and water chestnut (Panifal)
Dhap: Layers of Kachuripana (hyacinth), a kind of aquatic flora, keeping one above other formed a kind of raft termed as Dhap.

Bengal Boats in a period between 1760 and 1824 through Etchings by François Balthazar Solvyns

Please visit Plate No 229 to 264 (either Click here or in the photograph to visit the site)