{"id":3544,"date":"2020-05-05T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contrib.city\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2020-06-07T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:47:45","slug":"from-calcutta-to-paris-prithwindra-mukherjee-the-multi-dimensions-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contrib.city\/index.php\/en\/2020\/05\/05\/from-calcutta-to-paris-prithwindra-mukherjee-the-multi-dimensions-man\/","title":{"rendered":"From Calcutta to Paris: Prithwindra Mukherjee, the Multi-Dimensions Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living in the French capital for more than half a century, Prithwindra kept my attention both by his intellectual capacity, through his reflection on the Indian independence movement from which G\u00e2ndhi originated, and by his musical and poetic sensitivity. In fact, in his youth, Prith set to music several Bengal poems and produced a Thousand Years Anthology of Bengali Poetry<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After I contacted him, Prithwindra – the Lord of the Earth<\/em> in Sanskrit – agreed that Contrib\u2019City would post a dialogue between the two of us. Because of the Coronavirus, we had to use modern communication tools. Despite these relational ersatz, we still managed to share our thoughts and our worldviews.<\/p>\n

So, I would like to thank Prithwindra very much for the honor he gives not only to the Contrib\u2019City site but also to all the readers of this testimony. Prith shares with us his view of our world with its medical suffering (Prithwindra suffered from polio), its wars or its conflicts. The latter, even liberating, are always atrocious: The fable that the non-violent program of G\u00e2ndh\u00ee has earned India its independence – without ever having to shed a drop of blood – is far from reality<\/em> [1]<\/sup><\/a>MUKHERJEE Prithwindra, Les racines intellectuelles du mouvement d’ind\u00e9pendance de l’Inde<\/em> (The intellectual roots of the Indian independence movement) – <\/span>(1893-1918) – Lecture<\/span><\/span>