Ranji Trophy 2024-25: Bengal skipper Majumdar smashes ton to keep Karnataka at bay on Day 1
A fluent century from Bengal skipper Anustup Majumdar kept Karnataka at bay on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Group ‘C’ encounter at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Wednesday.
Majumdar (101, 164b, 16×4) took Bengal to 249 for five, when bad light prompted the umpires to call off play. The 40-year-old Majumdar played with positive intent to record his 17th First-Class hundred.
Majumdar got…
Film, novels, video games, and more: Archivists and archivy
For today's post, I'd like to highlight some archivists I've found in popular culture, making this similar to my post back in August. None of these archivists are in anime or animation, but they are worth mentioning. Perhaps my prediction of having trouble finding representation, when it comes to archives, won't come to pass after all!
Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Oct. 17, 2020.
Let's start with Arthur White. He was an English actor who played Ernie Trigg in A Touch of Frost, a crime drama, a character described as a "police archivist" on his Wikipedia page. In the world of film, there's also The King's Case Note, a comedy film from South Korea where a king and his adviser, an archivist search to find the truth behind a crime which, according to the Wikipedia page, "threatens the stability of the kingdom." That reminds me of some plotlines in Tangled, where a number of episodes have archivy themes, which I may focus on as part of an upcoming post on this blog. In terms of other films, there is Cloud Atlas, where Sonmi 451 is an "Archivist" who records the story of a dissident in a device after her trial and arrest, which is also reflected in the novel too.
More subtle is Goronwhy, an unseen archivist in the 2010 miniseries, Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention. Finally, there's "Hyena," the June 2016 episode of 12 Monkeys, a TV series which was based on Terry Gilliam's bizarre 1995 film of the same name, where the protagonists search for an archivist, traveling through time to figure out what was happening.
There are some novels that also feature archivists as well. In the 2018 sci-fi novel, Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers, one of the characters portrayed is an elderly archivist named Isabel. Then there's the epistolary novel titled The Secret History of Twin Peaks which is part of David Lynch's Twin Peaks franchise, where there is a mysterious archivist who brings together a dossier of materials which is examined by an FBI analyst. I don't care much for the franchise, to be honest, or David Lynch, but it's worth mentioning this archivist.
Lynch, as IndieWire pointed out, "fetishizes an outmoded vision of American identity and bemoans its collapse" and was a vocal supporter of Reagan in the 1980s, even if his thoughts elsewhere are a mish-mash of ideas.
I also came across E.T.A. Hoffman's The Golden Pot: A Modern Fairytale, which includes a registrar who copies old manuscripts for an archivist, the latter who apparently cares about document preservation and is later shown to be salamander...who has to find mates for his daughters? This is one strange romantic story, to say the least!
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I'd also like to mention the Final Fantasy Record Keeper game, where players control a researcher who works in the history department. So perhaps that has some archivy themes. The description of the game on the official website makes this abundantly clear:
"In a glorious kingdom that thrives on the harmony between magic and art, epic tales of valor and hope have been passed from one generation to the next. The records of these great chronicles uphold the peace and prosperity of all civilization. The kingdom sealed these records inside paintings, to safeguard the balance of the world. That is until, without warning, the records within the paintings began to fade away... Darkness fell upon the world, bringing catastrophe and ruin. The time has come for you to save the kingdom's future. Tyro has restored the Battle Records held in the paintings, protecting the world from a terrible threat from beyond. Now as their investigation continues, they discover an ominous magic emanating from mysterious Corrupted Paintings. But these paintings do not hold Battle Records like the others. These new paintings hold Story Records chronicling the adventures of great heroes from across the realms."
On a totally different note, I found interesting the title of "Majumdar," occasionally used as a surname, which translates to record keeper or archivist from Arabic and Persian, according to the Dictionary of American Family Names. It comes from the words majuma (collection) and dar (possessor).
I would say that archivists are more than collections possessors, although there is occasionally gatekeeping in the profession and among some who are archivists for sure.
That's all for today's post. As always, I look forward to your comments and suggestions on what I should focus on next.
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Leela Majumdar : Lockdown Treasure : Prominent Writer Lila Majumdar' S Rare Works Found - লকডাউনে সোনার খনির খোঁজ, মিলল লীলা মজুমদারের অপ্রকাশিত রচনা
Leela Majumdar : Lockdown Treasure : Prominent Writer Lila Majumdar’ S Rare Works Found – লকডাউনে সোনার খনির খোঁজ, মিলল লীলা মজুমদারের অপ্রকাশিত রচনা
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লীলা মজুমদারের একগুচ্ছ অপ্রকাশিত রচনা, একে সোনার খনি ছাড়া আর কীই বা বলা যায়। আশুতোষ কলেজের ছাত্র সৌম্যকান্তি দত্তর হাতে উঠে এলে এমনই কিছু অপ্রকাশিত রচনাবলী। লীলা মজুমদারের ওপর…
