Dayar Sagar was Organised by the Dr Pratip Banerji Memorial Homeo Clinic & Services

News Desk, News Nation 360 : In honour of Pandit Iswarchandra Vidyasagar's 205th birthday, Dayar Sagar, an evening of talks, debates, and the reading of articles and poetry, was held recently under the auspices of Dr Pratip Banerji Memorial Clinic & Services. It was hosted by Rinku Banerji, the organisation's founder, and paid tribute to his remarkable life and work in the fields of education, social reform, and philanthropy. At 'Dayar Sagar', two renowned speakers gave talks of immense importance. Shri Susanta Mutt, the Sampadak for 24 years of the 110-year-old Santipur Sahitya Parishad, who is deeply engrossed with different social welfare activities, discussed 'Bratyakatha', a special book on Pandit Iswarchandra Vidyasagar that he edited and published in 2020 to commemorate Vidyasagar's 200th birth anniversary. Shri Dilip Banerjee, a kinsman of Vidyasagar's, operating from between his ancestral village Birsingha and Karmatar (where Vidyasagar spent the last 18 years of his life), made use of his encyclopedic familiarity with Vidyasagar and the two-century history of the family to offer perceptions. Both speakers touched upon how Vidyasagar (1820–1891) and, before him, Rammohun Roy (1774–1833), employed their command over Hindu shastras to break opposition and prevail in their reformist causes. They received an enthusiastic reception from the audience. The session included veteran advertising industry person Mrityunjoy Chatterjee reading passages from Rabindranath Tagore's tribute 'Vidyasagar-charit,' poet Gopa Bhattacharya reciting her poetry while regretting the lack of

Vidyasagar's 'Barna Parichay' in today's curricula, and translator/website developer Mahasweta Ray reading an article on Vidyasagar. Members of the audience mentioned Vidyasagar's help to both the famous people (such as Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Keshab Chandra Sen) and countless poor, unknown people, including tribals near Karmatar, highlighting his extensive philanthropy. The event also discussed Vidyasagar's contributions—along with individuals such as Debendranath Tagore, Rajnarain Bose, and Akshoy Kumar Dutt—to the Tattvabodhini Sabha, its Tattvabodhini Patrika, and to education, social reform, and philanthropy at large. Rinku Banerji, who founded this Clinic to serve as a living memorial to her late husband, and organised and hosted ‘Dayar Sagar’, attached great importance to the Clinic’s efforts to continue doing justice to the family legacy… over 150 years of success in practising and popularising homoeopathy. She narrated how its senior assistant doctors, who had been personally trained by Dr. Pratip Banerji, now continue to offer homeopathic treatment under the Banerji Protocols – a new method of treatment of using specific medicines for specific diseases, originally conceptualised by Vidyasagar’s nephew the legendary Dr. Pareshnath Banerji, and thereafter developed by Dr. Prasanta Banerji and Dr. Pratip Banerji, with the very best use of modern medical and diagnostic sciences and research based on the systematic documentation of data collected during their long experience as homeopaths, to earn international acceptance, recognition and acclaim. The clinic offers treatment for acute and chronic diseases to people of all ages at 61B Southend Park, Kolkata 700019, and also online consultations to outstation patients.

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