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The Writer´s Building (Bengali: মহাকরণ Mahakaran), often shortened to just Writers ', is the secretariat building of the State Government of West Bengal in India. It is located in West Bengal's capital city of Kolkata. It housed the office of the Chief Minister of West Bengal until 4 October 2013. Now most of the departments have moved out to another building named Nabanna in Howrah on a temporary basis for facilitating renovation of the Writers'.
This originally served as the office for writers of the British East India Company, hence the name. Designed by Thomas Lyon in 1777, the Writers' Building has gone through several extensions over the years.
In 1821 a 128 ft-long verandah with Ionic columns, each 32 ft high, were added on the first and second floors. From 1889 - 1906 two new blocks were added, approached by iron staircases that are still in use. Writers’ acquired its Greco-Roman look, complete with the portico in the central bay and the red surface of exposed brick. The parapet was put in place and the statues sculpted by William Fredric Woodington in 1883, that line the terrace, were installed.
The giant pediment at the centre is crowned with the statue of Minerva. The terrace also contains several other statues and notable among them are four clusters of statues, christened 'Justice', 'Commerce', 'Science' and 'Agriculture', with the Greek gods and goddesses of these four streams (Zeus, Hermes, Athena and Demeter respectively) flanked by a European and an Indian practitioner of these vocations.
The 150 meter long Writers' Building covers the entire northern stretch of the a water body locally called Lal Dighi in the B.B.D. Bagh area. Various departments of the West Bengal government are housed in this building. It is an edifice of great political significance and memories of the Indian Independence Movement.
WRITER`S BUILDING TIMELIME
1776: The site of the demolished St Anne’s church and the adjoining plot were granted to Thomas Lyon, after whom Lyons Range is named, to construct buildings to accommodate the junior servants of the East India Company or the “writers”. Lyon was acting on behalf of Richard Barwell, member of the council, when Warren Hastings was governor. Writers’ Building was the first three-storey building in Calcutta.
1780: Barwell leased out the range of buildings to the East India Company for the rent-free accommodation of its writers “for five years by his own rate at 31,700 current rupees per annum to be paid half-yearly in advance”. Writers’ looked like a “shabby hospital, or poor-house”.
1800: [Fort William College] , opened to train writers in Oriental languages, later moved to this building. Over the next 20 years, structural changes were made: a hostel for 32 students and an exam hall, which still exist, a lecture hall, four libraries and rooms to teach Hindi and Persian.
1821: A 128 ft-long verandah with Ionic columns, each 32 ft high, were added on the first and second floors.
1830: The college moved out of Writers’ and the building fell into the hands of private individuals who turned it into living quarters, shops and godowns. The Government College of Engineering functioned from here for some time.
1871-74: George Campbell, lieutenant governor-general, felt the need for a secretariat for “quick disposal of work”. But the East Indian Railway Company occupied a large space at Writers’ and was unable to find alternative accommodation.
1877-82: Ashley Eden, lieutenant-governor of Bengal, was told to relocate the principal offices, housed on Sudder Street and Chowringhee, to Writers’. Because of the space crunch, initially three blocks were constructed.
1879-1906: Two new blocks were added, approached by iron staircases that are still in use. Writers’ acquired its Greco-Roman look, complete with the portico in the central bay and the red surface of exposed brick. The parapet was put in place and statues sculpted by William Fredric Woodington in 1883 were installed lining the terrace. Minerva stands above the central portico. Pre-independence, Writers’ had a large courtyard with seven blocks. By 1970, all 13 blocks were constructed. The main block, including the rotunda and five main blocks, are heritage structures.
RENOVATION
The building went under renovation in late 2013, in a project costing ₹200 crore (US$32 million). Prior to this, the state Secretariat and Chief Minister’s office temporarily shifted to the Howrah River Bridge Commissioners Building.[4][5] In February 2014, the project was stalled after conservation experts and the state Public Works Department found the plan submitted by an architect firm insufficient.[6] Meanwhile, a team of Jadavpur University architects was invited to conduct tests of the structure, before the actual renovation could be commenced.
ASSASSINATION OF COLONEL N.S. SIMPSON
On 8 December 1930 Benoy Basu, Badal Gupta and Dinesh Gupta headed for the Writers’ Building. Dressed in European outfits they carried loaded revolvers. They shot dead the notorious Inspector General of Police Colonel N. S. Simpson, infamous for his brutal oppression of the prisoners in the jail.
After killing Colonel Simpson, they occupied the Writers’ Building, and soon a gun battle followed in the corridors. Unable to stand up to the numerous forces of Calcutta police, the trio soon found themselves overpowered and cornered.
Unwilling to give themselves up, Badal took potassium cyanide and died instantly, while his comrades shot themselves. Benoy died five days later in hospital but Dinesh survived only to be hanged on 7 July 1931.
Today Dalhousie Square is named after the trio and is called B.B.D. Bagh. A statue of Benoy, Badal and Dinesh stands in front of the Writers’ Building, showing Benoy, the group leader, leading his comrades in their final battle.
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Blythswood Square Hotel, Glasgow.
8.3.12
Glengoyne whisky have teamed up with Scottish crime writers to launch Bloody Scotland. Pictured today in the Blythswood Hotel at the launch were writers Len Wanner, Alex Gray, Lin Anderson, Craig Robertson and Gordon Brown.
Pictured are: Writer (Unknown)
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THE RESTLESS EARTH
28 APR - 20 AUG 2017
Triennale Milan
The exhibition explores real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing the odyssey of migrants through personal and collective tales of exodus.
The Restless Earth borrows its title from a collection of poems by Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean writer who probed the question of how different cultures can coexist. The exhibition shares in Glissant’s project—a pressing and necessary one that tries to describe this unstable and agitated present as a polyphony of voices and narratives. Through the works of more than sixty artists from more than forty countries—such as Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Turkey—and with historical documents and objects of material culture, this exhibition charts both experiences and perceptions of migration and the current refugee crisis as an epoch-making transformation that is reframing contemporary history, geography, and culture.
The Restless Earth explores real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing the odyssey of migrants through personal and collective tales of exodus inspired by varying degrees of urgency and longing. The exhibition revolves around a series of geographic and thematic lines of inquiry—the war in Syria, the state of emergency in Lampedusa, life in refugee camps, the figure of the nomad or stateless person, and Italian migration in the early 20th century—which intersect with works that serve as visual metaphors for conditions of mobility and precariousness.
The Restless Earth focuses in particular on how artists bear witness to historic events, and how art can describe social and political change in the first person. The works on view point to a renewed faith that art and artists have a responsibility to portray and transform the world, creating not just images of conflict, but images that provide a space for critical thinking and exchange. Together, these stories—poised between historical epic and real-time diary—yield a vision of art as lyrical journalism, emotional documentary, and vivid, vital testimony.
Like a constant ellipse, penetrating rays of a new beginning, a new aurora that gradually transcends from pitch black into a burnished sidereal day. How tedious it seems for some, how blistering for so many. Not so baffling to translate and discern where I place myself. I question and marvel how many can associate with the similar feeling, comparable beliefs, equivalent impression and selfsame notion. Often, it appears like an incessant struggle; a battle between the good and the evil, an unceasing conflict to perfect myself, one more step, nearer to destruction; bitter sweet end. Seems like the only thawing sweetness left, comes from the most unpredictable places; “Words”.
- An Extracted Paragraph from "WORDS" (part1) by Abdullah Haris
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Blythswood Square Hotel, Glasgow.
8.3.12
Glengoyne whisky have teamed up with Scottish crime writers to launch Bloody Scotland. Pictured today in the Blythswood Hotel at the launch were writers Len Wanner, Alex Gray, Lin Anderson, Craig Robertson and Gordon Brown.
Pictured are: L-R Len Wanner, Lin Anderson, Gordon Brown and Craig Robertson. Front - Alex Gray
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Glasgow
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Bespoke Goods specializes in crafting fine leather goods for writers, artists, and winemakers. In the Old World Tradition, we use only premium full-grain leathers and all natural vegetable dyes to ensure the longevity of the product. While more costly to source, a single, solid hide represents the ultimate in aesthetics and durability. Moreover, we source our leathers locally so that we can select the choicest hides. Each piece is unique as an artisan hand cuts and hand dyes the hide to bring out the leather’s best qualities.
Bespoke Goods only practices vegetable tanning. It is the most traditional way of tanning hides. Using skilled artisans, the tanning process is done by hand. Unlike chrome tanning, vegetable tanning can take up to 60 days to produce a piece of dyed leather. Vegetable tanning uses natural ingredients, such as the bark of chestnut trees, to tan the leather. This means the finished product colour is usually warm, rich tones of natural, orange hues and deep, rich browns. As the vegetable tanning process is time consuming and requires skilled artisans, leather goods produced this way are very expensive to produce and production is limited to small batches. Vegetable tanning is usually reserved for very high end, luxury leather goods.
Lady Stair's House, Lady Stair's Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh
The Writers’ Museum celebrates the lives of three great Scottish writers – Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Visitors can see portraits, rare books and personal objects including Burns’ writing desk, the printing press on which Scott’s Waverley Novels were first produced, and Scott’s own dining table and rocking horse. They have Robert Louis Stevenson’s riding boots and the ring given to him by a Samoan chief, engraved with the name ‘Tusitala’, meaning ‘teller of tales’. There is also a plaster cast of Robert Burns' skull, one of only three ever made. Even if you’re not a bookworm, it’s well worth a visit.
Writer and local teacher Simon Baker attempts to convince the audience of the dark secrets luring in innocent children's nursery rhymes. Photographed at Spotlight Club, the Yorkshire House, Lancaster, 19 December 2008.