On the Silk Route with Goutam Ghose
Kolkata, 2013, The Dale Carnegie auditorium in the iLEAD
campus was chock a block full on the morning of June the 21st.
Students from at least ten schools of Kolkata had congregated here to watch two
episodes of Goutam Ghose’s epoch making documentary series Beyond the Himalayas
and interact with the filmmaker after the screening. Goutam Ghose had
undertaken this three months long journey with a 35 member team in 1994,
several years before these students were born. Theirs was the first Indian
expedition through China. And the film, documenting this journey in all its
nuances, still has the power to captivate the kids of the globalization era
with its exposition of the cultural, geographical and religious diversity of
the civilizations dotted along the silk route.
The presence of two other
expedition members – Jagannath Guha and Phalguni Matilal, was a bonus to the
students as they shared anecdotes of how they overcame linguistic barriers, not
only to survive in a bleak environ, but also to discover a cultural tie with
the people of Central Asia. Jagannath Guha told the students, “If we trace back
our ancestry, we shall realize that all of us are migrants. So if we feel a
little like outsiders in our own land, we shall feel a little at home in an
alien land.”
Goutam Ghose urged the students
to watch more documentary films to get a
first hand experience of people and places. He thanked Mr. Pradip Chopra,
Chairman of iLEAD for creating this wonderful opportunity for the students of
Kolkata. He promised to lend all the five episodes of Beyond the Himalayas to
the schools and interact with them whenever they would invite him. 
About
the Filmmaker Goutam Ghosh:
Born
in Kolkata in the year 1950, Goutam Ghosh ventured in the filmmaking by first
documentaries like New Earth and Hungry Autumn. He is appreciated for his films
like Maabhoomi, Antarjali Jatra, Padma Nadir Majhi, Paar and Abara Aranye, that
have portrayed the spectacular intricacy of emotions and thus, touched the
hearts of the viewers. Ghosh has won about 16 National Awards for his excellent
contribution to Indian Cenema. His film Moner Manush was adjudged the best film
of the year at the 41st International Film Festival of India in 2010.
About
ILEAd:
Institute
of Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Development (Ilead) is one of the premier
Media and Management School of Kolkata having world class infrastructure excellent teaching and non teaching staff
and is using latest educated technologies and is affiliated to West Bengal
University of Technology (WBUT) and is located in the heart of the City. To
know more about Ilead one can visit www.ilead.net.in.
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