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Santosh Gupta is an outstanding personality in the field of Bengali Culture & Literature. His total commitment to Democratic & Secular ideas, his uncompromising honesty and courage and his relentless fight against every form of reaction & authoritarianism has made him a figure worthy of emulation one and all. Veteran Journalist Mr. Gupta spent most of his life time as a writer. Media and Journalism was the widespread of his life. He had an acute sense of history and his interest in literary and intellectual pursuits was both deep and varied. He was a poet and essayist and an art critic of great merit. His Journalistic writing too, show his exceptional caliber, his patriotic fervor and his devotion to truth and hard facts. Mr. Gupta was not a prolific writer, but quality wise his output is outstanding. Santosh Gupta inspired the people in all progressive movement, including our libration war in 1971.He inspired the people through his writing at times of national transition and difficult days of the country. He was a former Senior Assistant Editor of the Daily Sangbad. Santosh Gupta is considered as one of the stars in the arena of Journalism for almost half a century. He had also been involved in the left politics before he adopted journalism as a profession. Santosh Gupta had an outstanding proficiency in different branches of writing and author of 14 books on different areas such as poetry, fine arts, politics, literature and also the journalistic writings on various issues. Santosh Gupta was also awarded by a good number of national awards including Ekushey Padak, Bangabandhu Padak, Sher-e-Bangla Padak, Hrishija Padak and many more. This great person passed away on 6th August, 2004 but his outstanding personality and powerful writings is still a great encouragement for our patriotism, humanity and all movements against worse. Such a wonderful personality is truly rare at this time.

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We have condensed all of the presentation techniques down to the most effective. Here are the Top 10 effective presentation techniques. 1. Use visual aids Using pictures in your presentations instead of words can double the chances of meeting your objectives. 2. Keep it short and sweet There is an old adage that said - “No one ever complained of a presentation being too short.” Nothing kills a presentation more than going on too long. There are some college professors who will penalise a short presentation (most lecturers see no problem in droning on) , but for most people a shorter presentation is better. Keep your presentation to under 22 minutes if you can. 3. Use the rule of three A simple technique is that people tend to only remember three things. Work out what the three messages that you want your audience to take away and structure your presentation around them. Use a maximum of three points on a slide. 4. Rehearse Practice makes for perfect performance. Many experts say that rehearsal is the biggest single thing that you can do to improve your performance. Perform your presentation out loud at least four times. One of these should be in front of a real scary audience. Family, friends or colleagues. Even the dog is better than nothing. 5. Tell stories All presentations are a type of theatre. Tell stories and anecdotes to help illustrate points. It all helps to make your presentation more effective and memorable. 6. Lose the bullet points - don’t put your speaker notes up on the screen Bullet points are the kiss of death for most presentations. Most people use bullet points as a form of speaker notes. To make your presentation more effective put your speaker notes in your notes and not up on the screen. 7. Video yourself Set up a video camera and video yourself presenting. You will see all sorts of mistakes that you are making, from how you are standing, if you are jangling keys, to how well your presentation is structured. 8. Know what slide is coming next You should always know when presenting which slide is coming up next. It sounds very powerful when you say “On the next slide [Click] you will see…”, rather than than a period of confusion when the next slide appears. 9. Have a back-up plan Murphy’s law normally applies during a presentation. Technology not working, power cuts, projector blowing a bulb, spilling coffee on your front, not enough power leads, no loudspeakers,

presentation displays strangely on the laptop - all of these are things that have happened in presentations that I have given. Have a back-up plan. Take with you the following items - a printed out set of slides - (you can hold these up to the audience if you need to), a CD or data stick of your presentation, a laptop with your slides on it. Just in case it goes wrong. Guess what? When you have back-ups - you seldom need to use them. 10. Check out the presentation room Arrive early and check out the presentation room. If you can make sure that you see your slides loaded onto the PC and working on the screen. Work out where you will need to stand. Do you agree or disagree with any of these effective presentation techniques? Have you have any experiences like this? Add it in to the comments box below. 30 August 2007