Sreyash Sarkar

Sreyash Sarkar is an Indian Bengali poet, musical artist and Microelectronics engineer (Bengali:শ্রেয়স সরকার; born 20 September 1993).[1][2][3] Sarkar has been published in international literary journals[4][5][6] and has been featured as the youngest polymath in Education World Magazine[7] and in the French world magazine, Le Mauricien[8] among others.

Sreyash Sarkar
শ্রেয়স সরকার
Born (1993-09-20) 20 September 1993
Kolkata, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materSouth Point School
Visvesvaraya Technological University,(B.E)
ESIEE Paris,(Ph.D.)
OccupationPoet, Musical Artist, Painter, Engineer
Years active2013–present
Parents
  • Samir Kr. Sarkar (father)
  • Pushpita Sarkar (mother)
RelativesSumitra Guha, Phulrenu Guha
Websitesreysarkar.weebly.com

Early life

Born to noted physicist professor of the University of Calcutta, Samir Kr. Sarkar and Pushpita Sarkar, a professor of Political Science at Bangabasi College,[1] Sarkar grew up in Calcutta, India and studied at South Point School.[9] From his school-life onwards, he was a student correspondent for Voices, the literary supplement of The Statesman, Calcutta, India. He received his initial musical training from his mother and later in Hindustani Classical Music in the Kirana and Gwalior gharanas, from Bidhan Chakrabarty, Rajyasree Ghosh, Sandip Ghosh, a disciple of Pt. A. Kanan and from Pt. Keerti Kumar Badsheshi, a disciple of Pt. Vinayak Torvi. His maternal grandaunt is the noted Hindustani Classical vocalist Padmashri Vidushi Sumitra Guha.[10] He obtained his bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka. Having read letters of his great-grandaunt, the social activist and chairperson of the Committee of Status of Women in India, Phulrenu Guha, written while she was pursuing her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne, Sarkar was lured to the idea of moving to Paris, France.[11] Finally in 2016, he did move to Paris to pursue his post graduate studies for his diplome d'ingenieur in Microelectronics and Nanotechnology at ESIEE Paris,where from he graduated in 2018 with top honours: mention très bien avec les félicitations du jury[12] and is presently pursuing his PhD on Metamaterials.[13][14][15]

Works

Notable poems written by Sarkar are listed at Eye on Life Magazine[16] and include:

  • Whirligig[17]
  • The Optical Symphony[18]
  • The Cage
  • The Macrame of Carnal Waves
  • I'm 23 and I'm Wearing a White Kurta[19]
  • A Tibetan Epistle[20]

Style

Sarkar's works, as reviewed in The Galway Review[21] and Red River Review, represents an endearing world of 'some basic formal truths'.

Le Mauricien goes on to comment that,

Sarkar thus delimits a position apart in the debate on the question of representation and brings up 'some basic formal truths' in pictorial space. The reflexive space, the powerful creations are not synonymous with anarchy. It is about safeguarding the autonomy of artistic creation and affirming a critical attitude towards the present world. Sarkar seems to question all objectivity in art, to approach the work as such, the expression of a search.[In his works] We see the misuse of motives, a short prosodic structure, a dry recitative and a rhythmic pattern constitutive of an intimate rumination, the effect of distancing and the search for an intimate cohesion.[3]

In an interview for Arty Legume, he had indicated his principal poetic influences to be Rabindranath Tagore, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud & Sylvia Plath, who taught him, poetic restraint and the 'economy of balance'.

Sarkar refuses to be labelled as an artist and remarks that 'there is an inherent difference between craftsmanship and artistry' and instead prefers to be called a 'technician, who picks up the pen or brush to accomplish the job. Whether the end result is art, is unknown [to him]'.[22]

Publications

Publications containing Sarkar's works are listed as:

English

Bengali

Music

Though Sarkar has been trained in Hindustani Classical Music and Rabindrasangeet, his published music albums are of crossover Western Classical genre. In 2017, Universal Records released his first single 'July' and then another single titled 'Simple Songs'[51][52], came out in 2018 comprising three compositions in piano, clarinet and combining other atmospheric sounds.[53] In an article reviewing Ludovico Einaudi's album Elements[54][55], Sarkar notes his understanding of music as a 'series of repetitions woven into absolute, simplicity of silence'. Andy Fischer of Score magazine reviewed Sarkar's Simple Songs, taking note of this 'relentless pursuit for the nature of simplicity'.

Engineering award
  • Best Poster Award, THERMINIC 2019, Lecco Italy.[56][57]

References
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  2. "Indian Cultural Forum". Indian Cultural Forum. 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  3. "News Africa". Le Mauricien. 2017. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  4. "The Legendary". The Legendary. 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  5. "Indigo Rising Magazine". Indigo Rising Magazine. 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  6. "Galway Review Magazine". Galway Review Magazine. 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
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  8. "Le Mauricien". Le Mauricien. 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
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  12. "ESIEE Paris:CÉRÉMONIE DE REMISE DES DIPLÔMES 2018". ESIEE Paris. 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  13. "INTERVIEW – SREYASH, FUTUR INGÉNIEUR MAIS AUSSI ARTISTE". ESIEE Paris. 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  14. "Publications". Google Scholar. 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  15. "Researcher Profile". Researchgate. 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  16. "Poetry Locksmith- Sreyash Sarkar". Eye on Life Magazine. 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  17. "Whirligig". UReCA. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  18. "The Optical Symphony". UReCA. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  19. "Sreyash Sarkar". Indiana Voice Journal. 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  20. "Sreyash Sarkar". The Write Place at the Write Time. 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  21. "Galway Review Magazine, Sreyash Sarkar". Galway Review Magazine. 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  22. >"Interview for Inkscape Magazine". Inkscape Magazine. 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  23. "On the Pastures of Pursuit". UReCA. 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
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  25. "Sreyash Sarkar". Ember. 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  26. "Sreyash Sarkar". Red River Review. 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  27. "Sreyash Sarkar". El Portal. 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  28. "Sreyash Sarkar". Circus Book. 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
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  30. "Sreyash Sarkar". Pif magazine. 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
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  32. "Indigo Rising Magazine". Indigo Rising Magazine. 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  33. "Cecile's Writers Magazine". Cecile's Writers Magazine. 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  34. "Creativica". Creativica. 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  35. "1 Poem by Sreyash Sarkar". Poetry Pacific. 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  36. "River River". River River. 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  37. >"Griffel". Griffel Journal. 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  38. "The Paragon Journal". Paragon Journal. 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  39. "Leaves of Ink". Leaves of Ink. 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  40. "TreeHouse Arts". TreeHouse Arts. 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  41. "The Bitchin' Kitsch". The Bitchin' Kitsch. 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  42. "TreeHouse Arts". The Non-fuctionning Scribblers. 2016.
  43. "Football & France, Sreyash Sarkar". ABP. 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  44. "France Celebrates, Sreyash Sarkar". ABP. 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  45. "Fuel Tax Protests in France, Sreyash Sarkar". ABP. 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  46. "CoronaVirus in France, Sreyash Sarkar". ABP. 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
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  53. "INTERVIEW – SREYASH, FUTUR INGÉNIEUR MAIS AUSSI ARTISTE". ESIEE Paris. 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
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  55. "TreeHouse Arts". The Non-fuctionning Scribblers. 2016. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019.
  56. "Young Achievers". Therminic 2019. 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  57. "Young Achievers". ESIEE 2019. 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
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