austraLasia 1241
As in Turin, now
in Kolkata
KOLKATA: 4TH sEPT. 2005 -- Past Pupils from Kolkata are
pleased to announce that on 4th of September, 2005 a dream comes
true as they inaugurate a statue of Don Bosco in the main street
outside the Don Bosco School Park Circus, Kolkata, India, one
of the cities of Don Bosco's Dreams. It joins other such statues in
metropolitan areas, though it may be hard to compare a megametropolis
like Kolkata with, say Turin, where the Past Pupils first set the trend
of a major statue to our Father and Founder in a city square. The
Kolkata project was taken up by the National President, Rajesh Gupta,
on behalf of the Alumni as a way of saying thank you and
expressing their gratitude to their Alma Mater with a statue
of Don Bosco in the centre of the city on the occasion
of Centenary of Don Bosco in India.
The
statue has been sculpted by three gold medallists (sculptors)
belonging to the same family from Rabindra Bharti, a
university where sculpture is also a subject along with music
& dance. This university teaches about the work of Rabindra
Nath Tagore, the Nobel Laureate in Literature.
It has taken three months to complete the statue and
the configuration is unique, indeed an absolutely new concept in design
compared to other statues of Don Bosco. This statue has four
figures one, of course, Don Bosco, the other three a tribal
girl, a city school boy and a technical institute student: all
aspects of Don Bosco's educational development covered in a way that
responds to the Indian culture.
The
Statute is being inaugurated by the Deputy Mayor of the City of
Kolkata, the Provincial Fr. John Burger, Confederal Member and National President of the Alumni,
Rajesh Gupta, National Secretary of the Alumni Mr. Edward Pinto
and Rector & Past Pupils Delegate of Park Circus School
Fr. T.V.Jacob.
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