Bharat Sevashram Sangha presents the following events on July 24th as part of their Fund Raising Event:

Hindustani Classical Vocal by Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik with Pandit Sameer Chatterjee on Tabla and Kedar Naphade on Harmonium

ablaphilia: A Presentation of the four stages of life through vocal and instrumental music, composed and conducted by Pandit Sameer Chatterjee

and

"Ekti Gnaye Thaki" a play in Bengali (with English supertitles) written and directed by Sudipta Bhawmik, and produced by ECTA
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What makes a family? Who are our family members?
Who is our brother  and wh<a href="http://nynjbengali.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ektignaye.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-577" style="float: left; margin: 4px;" title="ektignaye" src="http://nynjbengali.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ektignaye.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="276" /></a>o is our sister?
What expectations do we have for our family?  What are our demands?
Do we all live in a village of strangers?

<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">Villagers:  Sankar, Lili, Subhodev, Aparajita, Dwaipayan, Sudipta, Abhijit
Music:  Samya Goswami</span>

"Ekti Gnaye Thaki" is the story of Ranjana and her  brother, Rajat, reuniting after fourteen years. Rajat immigrates to the  US with his family after Ranjana sponsors their green cards. The  reunion is marked by its usual excitement followed by nostal-gia for  their hometown Gobindapur they both left behind. Rajat becomes a  critical link for Ranjana to relive her past, while Ranjana helps him  come to terms with his decision to abandon his familiar world in  Gobindapur. Ranjana is also ill and Rajat's presence offers a long  awaited emollient. As the brother and the sister often slip into the  past, the rest of the characters are excited at the prospects of their  future in the US, especially Rajat's son, Rajib. Life gradually settles  down and a quotidian harmony evolves. Yet from the beginning, the play  occasionally and quite subliminally alludes to an underlying subplot  that threatens the apparent calm between the two families. Eventually,  through a set of related incidents, the undisclosed piece - a rather  disconcerting one - is revealed. The disclosure tears apart the growing  assurance of the families' suburban life, and more importantly, sets in  motion a drift into the past that interrogates those relationships that  were deemed normal. Though this interrogation fractures a happy picture,  however, it is through this fracture, we are invited to revisit  something more important - the attachment between human be-ings. The  play above all, irrespective of its specificities of time and place, is a  commentary on what it means to be a human being in relation to those we  hold dear in our lives.

Tickets are $75.00, $40, $25, student with ID $15.00 Dinner is included. For more information, please call Ashram at 732-422-8880, email: bssnj@hotmail.com