{"id":1659,"date":"2018-07-02T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:06","slug":"stones-outside-kolkatas-academy-of-fine-arts-removed-but-no-one-knows-who-took-them-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/stones-outside-kolkatas-academy-of-fine-arts-removed-but-no-one-knows-who-took-them-away\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stones\u2019 outside Kolkata\u2019s Academy of Fine Arts removed, but no one knows who took them away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cstones\u201d that had been placed outside Kolkata\u2019s Academy Of Fine Arts \u2013 leading to heated arguments between two groups on Sunday \u2013 were found to have been removed on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is not exactly known who had removed them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/attempt-to-build-place-of-worship-outside-kolkatas-academy-of-fine-arts-artistes-unite-to-lodge-complaint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Situation was tense<\/span> <\/a>outside Kolkata\u2019s Academy of Fine Arts on Sunday afternoon as a group of hundred actors, technicians and others involved in theatre had a heated exchange with some people, asking them to shift some stones that were being worshipped there since mid-June.<\/p>\n<p>The latter group protested this and went to Hastings Police station to submit an appeal. Panchali Kar, who is among those leading the protest said that the police advised them to place the appeal before the Kolkata Municipal Corporation as their demand had been primarily to \u201cremove\u201d the \u201cstones\u201d kept under the tree.<\/p>\n<p>Kar and the others were planning to take the next course of action on Monday. Police had been guarding the area since the argument took place outside Academy Of Fine Arts on Sunday afternoon. However, the stones were absent from the spot since Monday morning, and there was no confirmation on who had removed them.<\/p>\n<p>Kar and others said it was very clear that an attempt was being made to set up a temple there and therefore they had demanded these to be shifted elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, actor at Nandikar, Sohini Sengupta, said there were lot of things that needed to be addressed about the space outside Academy Of Fine Arts, not just the alleged attempt to set up a temple. \u201cThe atmosphere is not what it used to be earlier. Actors and audiences leaving the theatre hall at night do not feel comfortable and safe these days,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read Sengupta\u2019s article for The Bengal Story <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/i-dont-like-to-go-to-the-academy-of-fine-arts-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cstones\u201d that had been placed outside Kolkata\u2019s Academy Of Fine Arts \u2013 leading to heated arguments between two groups on Sunday \u2013 were found to have been removed on Monday morning. However, it is not exactly known who had removed them. Situation was tense outside Kolkata\u2019s Academy of Fine Arts on Sunday afternoon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}