Bratati Bandyopadhay is an zealous and fervent explorer in the deified locale of poetry she recites poetry out of sheer passion out of genuine yearning, to share her perception and equation with the lines and themes that shakes her sense perceptions to tears or laughter, realization or any of a million extent of mood. She has been successful in popularizing the new wave in elocution amongst the masses. Poets often complain about the inability of reciters to convey the true essence of their poetry. But this cannot be said of Bratati. She is among the few accomplished reciters, who have the ability to understand the essence, and to communicate the virtues of poetry to her often large audience.
She contemplates her greatest reward to be the assorted achievement -the exuberant mental reiteration in terms of feelings with her listeners the elite class off course. The incredible chance to imbibe multi-cultural ethnicity is but her forte.
Early Life of Bratati Bandyopadhay
Maya and Manjul Kumar Bandyopadhyay were her father and mother sprawling in the ancestral house at Hridaypur -a distant suburb of Kolkata. Poetry ,since infancy has been her interest, as her parents recall those days of her keen inclination towards memorizing, and reciting more than 300 odd nursery rhymes, short poems even as a 3 year old toddler. own childhood ruminations remind her of her amorous tie-up with melody, rhyme, images and tunes, which must have developed in the ambiance around her - a vastness where the gradual aspects of nature, as the happily growing plant the blossoming flowers, and twittering birds enchanted a hymn of inspiration. What particularly mesmerized her was the echoing chime of a nearby temple-bell that strangely enough seemed to mingle with the twinkling glow of fireflies in the darkening orchards in their compound to create an ethereal m‚lange of sight and sound.
The modern day icon of the theatre Sombhu Mitra, one of the pioneering entity of the cultural scenario of Bengal, albeit India, farsighted, a dedication, to be offered to the muse of poetry, he wrote, a fervent to her to share his own perceptions of certain basic elements of serious drama and elocution. While much of it went literally over her head then, looking back in retrospect it seems to be one of the greatest benevolences that she has received till now.
Career of Bratati Bandyopadhay
Her Alma Matter has been Bethune Collegiate School, premier educational institution, in Calcutta, Asia`s first women college where her parents admitted her, at the right that today is over 150 years old. From school onto college, and then to the University of Calcutta was a somewhat logical journey, and she didn`t do too badly at any of them, finally securing a First Class in her Masters examination in Economics.
The reigning passion in all these years continued to be poetry, and she became more and more enthralled, and allured by its appeal. Not to forget, that an inexhaustible endeavour was on pace on her part, to hone her unremittingly learnt skills at elocution. She seized every opportunity to participate in whichever competition that came her way.
So her every voyage remains special as they tutor the truths of and endorse her confidence in humanity, and she owes a lot to - each one of them who have been with her in her sojourn to explore, the divine legitimacy of life from all the corners of India, and abroad, like the U.S.A and the Middle East.
