Fun, thrills at celebration of International Mother Tongue Day

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Sujata Paul hosted the Mother Tongue Day

By Munyal Markus Manunyi

The international mother tongue day this year, came with fun activities from poets across the globe, who were hosted by Sujata Paul on her Talk Show – Creativity Is Intelligence SP. So many poets came together to commemorate this day by reciting poems in their mother tongues. Among such poets in attendance whose poem got the attention of all, attracting a thunderous uproar of applause, was Mousumi Sachdeva from Assam, India. She had a beautiful poem recitation in her mother tongue Assamese, which got almost everyone present emotional, especially when she read out the English version of it. The poem which was also written in the Assamese alphabet read:

Hafalata ki baru?
Ek muthi sabdohe mathu
Iyar kunu sima nai
Jene icchar kunu porisima nai
Kune baru dombhali kobo pare
Moi aaji safal
Nai…safal kunu ketiyau hobo nuware
Karon safalotar kunu anta nai
Kunu sima nai
Safalta eti mathu sabdahe mathura

The English translated version reads:

What is success?
It’s just a mere word
It has no limits
Just as our wishes are illimitable
Who can proudly say,
I am successful?
No, none can ever be successful
Because, it has no end
It has no limits
Success is merely a word.
Some writers spoke about the challenges facing mother tongues in their respective countries, and the way forward. The international mother tongue day is celebrated every 21st February, 2022. There were 25 delegates who were hosted to represent their countries on the Talk Show hosted by Su as seen below:

Sai Prakash, Andhra Pradesh – India
Harinder Cheema – Delhi, India
Ranjana Saran sinha – Nagpur, India
Barbara Ehrentreu – U. S. A
Melissa Begley – USA
Mary Lynn – USA
Pramod Saxena – Rajasthan, India
Mousumi Sachdeva – Assam, India
Rumpa Ghosh – Mumbai, India
Shakil Kalam – Bangladesh
Manoranjan Sahoo – Odisha, India
Mildred Par – Philippines
Sheela P Kartick – Tamilnadu, India
Munyal Markus – Abuja, Nigeria
Kenneth Maswabi – South Africa
Sreekala – Bangalore, India
Paramita Mukherjee – Mumbai, India
Sarita Tripathi – Lucknow, India
Sujata Paul – Tripura, India
Roopali Sircar Gaur – Meerut, India
Ashes Sengupt – Tripura, India.
Parthita Dutta – Poland
Kalipada Ghosh – Kolkata, India
Bijayalaxmi Rath – Bhubaneswar, India
Ramina Herrera – Peru.

The host of the Talk Show, Sujata Paul, is of the opinion that her show – Creativity Is Intelligence Sp, is meant to promote the various talents of creative artists and creative writers across the globe. The success stories of different professionals and successful people are shown live to inspire the million youths. Some successful guests who have been hosted on the show includes; a Rio Olympic Winner, Gymnast Deepa Karmakar, musicians, poets, writers and many others, just to mention but few. Beside this, she has also organised many global poetry meetings live on the show. Her main aim on the show is to unearth those hidden potentials and talents inherent in individuals and make them known to the world.

BIOGRAPHY OF HOST SUJATA PAUL

The eminent Indian trilingual poet, Sujata Paul, was born on December 24, at Jadabpur, Kolkata, West Bengal in India. Presently she lives in Tripura. She received her Masters Degree in English from Tripura University, Agortola, Tripura in India.
By profession she is a teacher, but writing is her passion.

She is a regular contributor of different national and international e-magazines. Her creative writings can be found in some special anthologies like: Tranquil Muse – an international anthology of poems on autism, Spilling Essences, Vasudha, Scintillating Scions, Queen, The Spirit of India, SIPAY, सुनहरे स्पर्श, Fragility:Thy Name is Not Woman, Florets of Fancy, My Tears, Petals of Peace, Great Women of India and so on.

She has published three poetry books, WHISPER OF MY SOUL, SARANG in English and ASTITWA in Bengali.

Her article and poem on colour-based-discrimination received a Double Cross Medal from Italy and South Africa.
She has been conferred Sahitya Academy Award, 2020 by Gujrat Sahitya Academy in collaboration with the Motivationa Strips. She has also been awarded Literoma Nari Samman Award, 2020 and Most Influential Women Award, 2020 by The Spirit Mania. She is also the recipient of the Literary Excellence Award by Suryodaya Literary Foundation, 2020. Recently, she has been awarded with the honour Order of Shakespeare Medal in 2021.

Besides writing, she also likes travelling, reading, gardening and listening to music as well as being a nature lover.

She is the Founder of Creative Tripura, a literary community group. She is a talk show host. The name of her page on Facebook is Creativity Is Intelligence – SP.

Munanyi can be reached on email at [email protected]