“Bhagwaan bhi Bhagwaan hai, wo Na ladka na ladki”- Debosmita Bhattacharya

In the international literature festival organised in the city a session was organised in which poets from the third gender community recited their poems.
Debosmita Bhattacharya, a college prof and a Phd aspirant, started her recital with aaadkavi Valmiki’s first sholka and thanked Vishwa Rang for getting them recognized as

Valmiki

. Her first poem was “sapna” and the other was “Sawaal” “sawaal ye nahi ke main kaun hu, sawaal ye ke main kya hun”.

Alia Sheikh, a counselor for LBGT community, recited her poem “Prakriti Kanya- main hu prakriti Kanya main hun ek naari”.

MSc in

mathematics

and high school teacher in west Bengal Prasfutita Sugandha was the next on the dice and thanked Rabindra Nath Tagore University for the invitation and her poem was “Toofan”.

Parthsaarthi Majumdaar ,a male and a secretary who work with transgender community recited a poem “Prakriti” and the second few lines says “Aasaman ka koi ling nahi hai”.

Viplav Ghosh, trained transgender classical dancer presented a dance piece on one of her own poem on Mahabharata’s Character Amba, lately recorded with music as a song. The next performance was by Rintu Das, passed from Rabindranath University Kolkata, who gave a performance based on Vrihannala the transgender character of Arjun in

Mahabharata

.