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The Story of the Chair
The Chair in Tushar's apartment in Kolkata
The idea to have a poet’s chair was born with the sight of the sea from Tushar’s apartment. It was the last week of May heralding monsoons in Mumbai in 2011. With thick clouds gathering over the Arabian Sea and the impish play of colours on ocean, the poet-artist decided to design a chair which could be placed by the huge window facing the sea, where he would take flights of fancies and lose himself in captivating intricacies of imageries. So, a chair had to be designed, a rocking chair that could also be used as a desk for writing and sketching. A local carpenter was called and was handed over the design. The chair was born in the month of June 2012 in a mahogany avatar!
Ever since, so long as Tushar lived in Mumbai, the Chair occupied a place of pride in his home and has comforted many artists and poets. So far it has witnessed 3 books being written on its desk and a few hundred sketches yielding some 30 odd paintings on canvas. It was sitting on this chair by the sea side that Sonnet Mondal wrote the poem ‘From Tushar’s Apartment’.
It was a sultry evening in the month of late September 2017, a month after Tushar’s relocation to Kolkata, when an informal evening of poetry was arranged at his residence. One by one all the poets sat on the Chair and recited their poems. The poets exclaimed, that was a wonderful evening, the Chair Poetry Evening. Later in February 2018, Sonnet and Tushar came together with the idea of uniting the vast and diverse world of poetry by inviting poets from all across the globe to an annual event called The Chair Poetry evenings in Kolkata. Thus the Chair Poetry Evenings was born!
Ever since, so long as Tushar lived in Mumbai, the Chair occupied a place of pride in his home and has comforted many artists and poets. So far it has witnessed 3 books being written on its desk and a few hundred sketches yielding some 30 odd paintings on canvas. It was sitting on this chair by the sea side that Sonnet Mondal wrote the poem ‘From Tushar’s Apartment’.
It was a sultry evening in the month of late September 2017, a month after Tushar’s relocation to Kolkata, when an informal evening of poetry was arranged at his residence. One by one all the poets sat on the Chair and recited their poems. The poets exclaimed, that was a wonderful evening, the Chair Poetry Evening. Later in February 2018, Sonnet and Tushar came together with the idea of uniting the vast and diverse world of poetry by inviting poets from all across the globe to an annual event called The Chair Poetry evenings in Kolkata. Thus the Chair Poetry Evenings was born!
