The bi-centenary birthday of Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar has been organized by the Indo-Bangla Media Educators Network, a platform of teachers, journalists, researchers and media educators of mass communication and journalism in Bangladesh and India. The memorial function will be held on Saturday, September 26.
The international internet talk on Vidyasagar's memory will be broadcast live on the network's Facebook and YouTube channels and will be broadcast live on Barta24.com, one of the country's most popular multimedia online news web portals.
The title of the first episode of the event: 'The Lonely Warrior's Fight' at 7 pm (6:30 in India) the first session will be joined by Regional Director of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication from Orissa, India Professor Dr. Mrinal Chatterjee while Rajekuzzaman Ratan, a former student leader of the anti-authoritarian movement, central leader of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh BSD and a prominent analyst will join from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Shariful Islam, a teacher and former journalist of Mass Communication and Journalism Department of Khulna University of Bangladesh will give a welcome speech in this episode.
At 8 pm (7:30 pm in India) the title of the second conversation was 'If no one comes even after hearing the call, how to proceed alone'. The speakers will be Professor of the Center for Peace Studies, Political Science and Sociology, North South University, Dhaka Dr. Helal Mohiuddin and Dhaka University Department of Mass Communication and Journalism teacher and researcher Shamim Reza.
Reshmi Roy, an alumnus and music communication researcher at Jadavpur University in West Bengal, will inaugurate with a welcome speech in that episode.
Rajiv Nandi, one of the coordinators and hosts of the Indo-Bangla Media Educators Network and Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Chittagong, said, two hundred years back such a great and rare human was born who tried to break the stand off; although he could not break it, he made some holes in the wall. With those leaks, the seasonal wind of Bengal's renaissance came in. Society is still in need of repair, so two hundred years of Vidyasagar today is a new inspiration in the hearts of some people in the movement for the progress of the intellect, in the change of society, in the currents of superstition and progress.
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