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Ramakrishna Math, Balaram Mandir will be organising a Bhandara in memory of Srimat Swami Putanandaji Maharaj on 21st April, 2018 at their premises.

With deepest grief we inform that our respected and beloved Kalipada Maharaj aka Swami Putanandaji has left for Sri Ramakrishnalok at 5:25 pm today, 9th April, 2018. He was under treatment at RKM Seva Pratishthan.

Maharaj's body will be at Balaram Mandir tonight. Tomorrow at 9 am he will be taken to Belur Math for last rituals.

Needless to say, he will always be at the heart of thousands of students as love personified.

Belur Math is organizing an inter Ramakrishna Mission Football Tournament to commemorate the 150th bith anniversary of Sister Nivedita. To prepare for that, Vidyapith management planned for special training for selected players from class VIII to class X. Accordingly, Alumni Association has organized a special coaching camp at Vidyapith from 12th to 17th March, 2018.

Shatadal, an organization led by our ex-student Nilotpal Banerjee, is going to release a CD containing eight old songs from Vidyapith. Six of them are written by Saikatesh Maharaj Swami Sivapradananda, one by Swapanda aka Sri Swapan Bandyopadhyay and another by Late Sankariprasad Basu. Samarda aka Late Samarendranath Chattopadhyay, music teacher of Vidyapith, composed the music.

The name of the CD is 'Bhalobasar ek nam' (ভালোবাসার এক নাম). It will be released at the Sivananda hall of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark on 24th March, 2018. The time is 5 pm.

Vidyapith will organize a youth conference as part of the 150th birth anniversary celebration of Sister Nivedita and on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee celebration. It will be held at Rabindra Bhavan, Purulia on 23rd March, 2018 at 12 noon.

Revered Swami Suviranandaji Maharaj, General Secretary of Ramakrishna Math & Mission, will preside over the function. Swami Jnanalokananda, the Secretary Maharaj of Vidyapith, will give the welcome address.

Swapanda aka Sri Swapan Bandyopadhyay, ex-teacher of Vidyapith, will play the role of the anchor.

The Association is happy to inform that Dr. Sandip Basu, an ex-student of 1988 batch, is going to receive the ‘Faculty Research Award’ to recognise the efforts of India’s brightest minds in the field of academic research. He will be honoured as the “Most outstanding Researcher” in the field of Health Professions.

The award is constituted by Careers360, a premier education advisory company. The selection is based on a composite score generated by evaluating his academic output in journals.

Pdf versions of recent souvenirs of Alumni Association (Abhyudaya, published during reunions) are now available at Souvenirs page.

The Association thanks Debasis Ghosh of 1985 batch for his great effort to this achievement.

Sri Arup Ghosh, ex English teacher of Vidyapith, passed away on 23rd February, 2018.

Arup da worked at Vidyapith from 1984 to 1986. He was a professor at Sonamukhi college and had not retired yet.

May his soul rest in peace is our earnest prayer to the Almighty.

2 articles by Vidyapith ex-students have been published in the Anandabazaar Patrika over the weekened.

Shishir Roy of 1998 batch has written an article on Atulprasad Sen.

Amitabha Chattopadhyay, an ex-student of 1984 batch took a great initiative of making Kathamrita available in audio format and accomplished that.
You can listen or download the entire (Bangla) Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (audio) for free now. The audio is now available at the following links:

https://archive.org/details/kathamrita1
https://archive.org/details/kathamrita2
https://archive.org/details/kathamrita3
https://archive.org/details/kathamrita4
https://archive.org/details/kathamrita5