Ever since its inception on Rabindra Jayanti 1955. Samsad has been deeply committed to the ideal of promoting multi-dimensional aspects of Indian Culture. Its vibrant heritage and timeless scope which has made it so very inspiring. The Samsad has adhered to the Vedic ideal : “Let noble thoughts come to us from all directions : (Rig Veda-1 .89.i) Samsad feels truly proud that many eminent and illustrious persons, amongst them a few named here, have from time to time graced its functions.
SAINTS & PHILOSOPHERS :
Shankracharya Swaroopanand, Bhakti Vedanta Prabhupad, Swami Akhandanand, Swami Ramsukhdas, Swami Chinmayanand, Swami Rangnathananda, Swami Atmanand, Swami Satyarupanand, Swami Niranjanand, Swami Satyamitranand, Acharya Rajneesh, Pt. Ramkinkar, Atul Krishna Goswami, Kaka Saheb Kalelkar, A. Parthasarthy, Sri Rabi Shankar, Prof. Prema Pandurang. Dr. M Nadkarni.
THINKERS & STATESMEN :
C Rajagopalachari, A Ramaswamy Mudaliar, Acharya Kriplani, Chowdhury Charan Singh, K. M. Munshi, K.M. Pannikar, Bal
Gangadhar Kher, Jai Prakash Narayan, Satyen Bose, R. R. Divakar, Dr. kamel Bulke, Sunderlal Bahuguna, Payarelal, Kuldeep Nair, Dada Dharmadhikari, Puroshottamdas Tandon, Ghanshyamdas Birla, M. P. Koirala, Atal Bihari Vaipayee, Prithviraj Kapoor, Minoo Masani, Sidhartha Shankar Ray, Vasant Sathe, Dr. Pratap Chandra Chunder, Dr. D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Dr. P. C. Ghosh, Dr. Nihar Ranjan Ray, Nanaji Deshmukh.
SCHOLARS & LITERATURES
Kalidas Nag, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Hazariprasad Dwivedi, Sitaram Chaturvedi, Prabhakar Machwe, Acharya Chatursen, Dindayal Upadhayaya, Seth Govinddas, Vidyaniwas Misra, Ram Kumar Varma, Vishnu Prabhakar, Amrit Lall Nagar, Acharya Brihaspati, Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, Nagendra, liachandra Joshi, Naresh Mehta, Kamleshwar, Rajendra Yadav, Mannu Bhandari, Nirmal Verma, Raji Seth, jasdev Singh, Nand Dulare Bajpai, S. B. Varnekar, Jainendra, Raghubir, Narendra Kohli R. C. Sharma, Chintamani Kar, Kapila Vatsyayan, Mrinal Sen, S. K. Andhare, Tara Shankar Banerji, Mahasweta Devi.
HINDI (POETS) :
Sohanlal Dwivedi Ramkumar Varma, Agyeya, Bhawaniprasad Misra, Dinkar, Devraj Dinesh, Harivanshrai Bachhan, Mahadevi Varma, Nagarjun, Kaka Hathrasi, Bedhab Banarsi, Shivmangal Singh Suman, Neeraj, Dharamavir Bharti, Gopal Prasad Vyas, Virendra Misra, Som Thakur, Bharat Bhusan, Ramnath Avasathi.
URDU :
Firaq Gorakhpuri, Hafiz jalandhan , Ali Sardar Zafn, Kaifi Azmi, Jagannath Azad, Bekal Utsahi, Krishna Behari Noor, Anwar Mirzapuri, Khumar Barabanki, Basir Badr.
QUAWALI & GAZAL :
Aziz Ahmed, Abdul Aziz, Habib painter, Jaffar Hussain & party, Hamid Jhanswi, Mahamood Nizami, Aslam Sabri Begum Akhtar, Shobha Gurtu, Munni Begum, Shanti Hiranand, Rais Khan, Nirmala Arun.
MUSICIANS (CLASSICAL) :
Bade Gulam Ali khan, Gangu Bai Hangal, Vinayak Rao Patwardhan, Hirabai Barodkar, Rahimuddin Khan Dagar, Moinuddin Khan Dagar, Aminuddin Khan Dagar, Sunanda Patnaik, Nazakat & Salamatali Khan, Nasir Ahmed Khan, A. Kanan & Malvika Kanan, Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Maniram, Amir Khan, Bhimsen Joshi, Hafiz Ahmed Khan, Girija Devi, Naina Devi, Sulochana Brihaspati, Singh Bandhu, Rajan Sajan Misra, Ajay Chakraborty, Vijay Kichlu, Laxmi Shankar.
INSTRUMENTALISTS :
Radhika Mohan Maitra, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Nikhil Banerji, Bismillah Khan, Imrat khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Pannalal Ghosh, Brij Bhusan Kabra, Hari Prasad Chowrasia, V. G. Jog, Gyan Prakash Ghosh, Rais Khan, Balram Pathak, Mustaq Ali, Vasant Ranade, Budhaditya Mukherji, Shahid Parvez, V. Balsara, Budhadeo Dasgupta, Sisir Kana Dhar Choudhury, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Saran Rani, Zia Moiuddin Dagar, Shamta Prasad, Alla Rakha, Karamtulla Khan, Sagiruddin Khan, Kishan Maharaj, Shankar Ghosh, Gopal Misra, Sohanlal Sharma, latif Ahmed, Nanku maharaj, Kanhai Dutta, Mahapurush Misra, Kanti Bhai, Bithaldas Gujrati, Afak Hussain Khan, Anindo Mukherjee, Purshottamgi, Sapan Chowdhury.
DANCERS:
Rukmani Arundale, Sambhu Maharaj, Birju Maharaj, Roshan Kumari, Sanyukta Panigrahi, Jhaveri Sisters, Rani Karna, Vijay Shankar,
Anand Shankar, Kelucharan Mahapatra, Guru Bipinsingh, Pratima Bedi, Savita Ben Mehta, Aloka Kanungo,Chetna Jalan.
SUGAM SANGEET :
Sandhya Mukherji, Pankaj Mullick, Suchitra Mitra, Hemant Kumar, Dilip Kumar Roy, Manna De, C. H. Atma, Bhupendra Hazarika, Purna Chandra Das, Sulakshana Pandit, Gora Bai, Alla Jilai Bai, Hari Haran, Sekhar Sen, Sharma Bandhu (Ram Darbar), Rajendra Neena Mehata, Vani Jairam.
MUSICAL CHOIRS & BALLET :
Sant Sahitya Sandarshan, Hindi geet Dhara, Geet gunjan, Bhakti Sudha, Tulsi Kavya Samroh, Kurukshetra se Rajghat all conducted by Sri Gyan Prakash Ghosh.
Ram Charit Manas Me Sita conducted by : Acharya Brihaspati. Krishna Leelamritam, Udhav Leela, Bhramar Geet conducted by : Ravi Prabha Burman
Bhakti Tarangini, conducted by : A. Vaidyanathan.
AWARD :
In 1988-89, Samsad started an Udaiman Kalakar Award for encouraging the young artists in Indian Classical Vocal & Instrumental music. The Awardes Includes Soumik Lahiri, Mita Nag, Anjana Nath, Aniruddha Bhattacharya, Supratik Sengupta, Anirban Chatterjee, Soumik Dutta, Kaivalya Kumar, Arshad Ali
MEMBER’S PRESENTATIONS :
Namo Deva-Devaya, Surya Stavan, Geeta Sugeeta, Ganga Ganesh Stavan, Devi Vandana, Shiv Stavan, Katha Manchan, Kavya Manchan and Vivekananda.
SYMPOSIA :
Gandhi Centenary : Bhartendu Harish Chandra & Maithilisaran Gupta Centenary.Kavya Samaroh, Katha Samaroh. “Future of Man” Wisdom, Creativity & Progress.
PUBLICATIONS :
Bharatiya Samskriti – 2 Enclopaedic volumes, Prajna Pradeep : Dharma, Darshan Samskriti & National Integration, Bharatiya Chitrakala & Bharatiya Murtikala.
LIBRARY : Samsad has a library onvarious subjects Philosophy, Literature, Arts & Culture etc.
ADHYAYAN GOSTHI :
Regular lectures on literary subjects every week
RACHANA GOSTHI :
Creative Writing by members & friends.
VICHAR GOSTHI :
Member’s deliberations over various subjects and current topics.
RANJAN GOSTHI :
Provides for participation of members and children in cultural programmes.
SANGEET KAKSHA :
Regular classes in classical music. (vocal)
