Here, I would begin by apologizing to all whom I have not mentioned in detail due to certain constraints and demands of the book and context. I have to admit that it’s a fact- no success
can be achieved without support and co-ordination from the people. Numerous people have helped me with the project and I can never ever deny that this project would not have been successful without the contributions each one made.
While narrating chapters of my journey, I will mention only them, who are relevant in the context of the story. The others whom I have not mentioned in these chapters will be spoken of in new chapters, through other projects and they will receive their due credit.

We all are seeking to serve Mother earth with our heart-felt love towards her. I would request you all to stay united and contribute towards the benefit of Mother Earth. A cliche saying, ‘United we stand, divided we fall’, still holds true. Therefore, we shouldn’t generate misunderstandings among ourselves and work together for a better future. The chapters of my journey demand that I put forward many facts and theories which are very much relevant in today’s time and context.
I would request everyone to take everything said here in a positive manner.

Let us come to the brief of the initial event.
It was time for me to return to Natshal, my native land, after ages.
Here, I’ll tell you why was I so much confident about my safety and survival during the crisis in the air-plane. I strongly believe God has sent me on this earth to fulfill a significant purpose. Therefore, I was so sure that Almighty won’t let me die in any way, without me fulfilling the purpose. I am indebted to God for he has entrusted me with this great responsibility. God did not hand over this charge to me personally but, I realized my purpose through the laws of the Universe. Here, people may have different opinions about God.
However, this is my perspective from my personal experience.
Now let me tell you how it all began.
It was 2009; I visited my maternal uncle’s place. My cousin is an artist and he showed me so many paintings of his. Never before, I had any interest in paintings and art. I have traveled to several beautiful places across this world. I had close interactions with so many people including men, women and children. One of the paintings of my brother fascinated me. I discovered the beauty of the Earth in the artwork. I was spell-bound. Then I realized that we can’t form an idea in our consciousness regarding the beauty of our Mother Earth. I thought this painting is lifeless but, Mother Earth is glorified with both the living beings and the lifeless. Her glory and beauty can’t be defined ever.
I thought about what the purpose of the existence of the earth was! Why was the earth so beautiful!
I figured out a reason after much pondering.
Mother Earth craves to see her children happy and healthy.
Mankind is privileged that they are entitled to enjoy the beauty of the earth, being born on it.
An array of thoughts occupied my mind. I am sharing those thoughts here.
In the present day scenario, mankind, in a selfless manner, can utilize the resources which Mother Earth has given us. Some get undue advantages and the rest are deprived. Human beings can live peacefully without cheating on each other. Their incorrect mentalities cause hindrance in living a proper life. Therefore, they have to struggle a lot in life. A class of people achieves their extravagant lifestyle through dishonest means. Whereas, the other class sacrifices their basic desires and manages to survive in limitations. Here, the former class is said to be criminals and the latter one noble. There are two kinds of political parties in this world. One is Rightist. The Rightists are known in different places by different names. The other group is known as communists. The Rightists say that a man will earn respect and money on the basis of his merit. Communism believes that everyone possesses equal rights so the way out is to snatch from those who have in abundance and give it to the ones who lack it. Apart from this, there are various methods and principles of communism, if we club them up then it will be known as class struggle.
There will be always struggle in our minds and society. When a new political party comes to power it will take over the rights and benefits from the other one. In this way constantly, violence is prevailing everywhere, from man to man, race to race, and one nation to another nation.
Then how will a political party be able to bring peace and contentment in the society!
I believe that the class system is a social evil.
We need to establish a society where everyone has equal rights and everyone should be equally benefited. Only then we will be able to acknowledge how we benefit from Mother Earth. I also realized, since Mother Earth has given us so much, if we could do something to take care of our earth, a lot of problems will be solved.
I couldn’t stop thinking about all these.
I could not stop thinking of the beauty of the piece of art. The painting was done on a paper of 22 inches by 30 inches in size.
The painting was nothing but a small photocopy of this earth.
This piece of art has changed my taste and way of thinking. I was not very concerned about that painting, since I had no interest in fine arts and literature. But we can never reject someone’s gift unless it is harmful to us. A work of art can do no harm. Since it was not a part of things I am passionate about, I had no emotions for it.
In order to show my gratitude towards the painter and pay respect for the painting, after coming back to Kolkata, I took the painting to a shop to frame it.
A few days later when I got the framed painting in my hands, I was surprised and in lack of words. I was wondering that - Is this painting the same one that I had been gifted! I was staring at the painting with much awe and was delving into the depths of my thoughts.
Previously, I used to wonder why people so fascinated with paintings are! Why do they invest so much money in them! A piece of paper or a canvas, few colors, or a frame that is hardly expensive!
They must be insane, who buys paintings that cost them so much. But now I understand why they are so expensive and why people are passionate about them. I felt embarrassed, thinking, I too was insane, that I was unaware of these amazing creations of mankind.
While focusing on this painting, I was gradually connecting to my inner self and plunging into deep thoughts. Slowly and calmly, interesting thoughts were taking over my mind.
I realized many paintings exist in every corner of the world, drawn by various artists at various points in time. If a single painting could make me realize so much, how much realization an artist goes through to make a painting! I felt artists can enjoy the beauty of this Earth much better than an ordinary man, he can feel nature much better than an ordinary man. If each and every person could see the beauty of Mother Earth through the eyes of an artist then they could have felt much more. So, I decided to exhibit all these paintings, introducing and promoting these painters through the exhibition. Their artwork should reach to the common people of the society and that may help people change their perspective towards the world.
In 2014, I arranged a painting exhibition at I.C.C.R in Kolkata and received a huge response from the people.
Not only people, but journalists from different newspapers and news channels also attended the exhibition. They congratulated my initiative and their appreciation enhanced my confidence. Only a single piece of painting was sold in that exhibition but, it was more than sufficient since it was the initiation of working with a new generation of artists and we were overwhelmed with the response of the ordinary people, the experts, and the journalists. It was absolutely unexpected for us. The painting was sold, by K. Narayan. The painting of Fernando Rodrick, alias Avijit, was getting the attraction of the crowd. There were almost forty paintings in the gallery. The honorable guests included Dr. Arup Mitra, the eminent spiritual-researcher, Jog-guru Gouri Shankar Das, the film director Asish Basak, film actress Keya Chakrabarti.
Gradually, I felt God has sent me on earth to serve human beings. My purpose in existence was to make people realize how beautiful Mother Earth is. All I can say is that I am grateful and indebted to the creator of this world for everything I have received and truly want to do something for Mother Earth.
In February 2015, I organized another exhibition at Chemould Art Gallery in Kolkata. In this exhibition, there were around eight paintings of K. Narayan, four paintings of Fernando Rodrick, and almost six paintings of Dipankar. The Times of India and other newspapers covered this news and it was featured in a few television channels of Kolkata and Bangladesh. News channels like Onkar TV, ATN Bangla, and Ekattor TV, etc. also covered this news.
I had to go back to Australia in May 2015; I was running short of funds, as I had already invested all my savings into the art exhibitions. Never before, I thought that someday I will become a part of artistry and will serve society. Never had I the tendency of saving money, I was never a niggard. Alas, I had to leave my own country and go back to Australia. Sometimes, I was thinking that I am blessed by the Almighty, to serve the purpose of human welfare; again at times, I was pretty confused about my motives and my actions. Days were rolling down in uncertainty. I did not have time to think much. It was time to pack the bags and to collect the boarding pass.
Australia is the most favorite country of mine. I have stayed there for several years and was well connected to the people out there. I loved this country and was quite close to its nature, its soil, and the people. When I was in India, I missed it badly and now it’s time to go back to those memories.
In the meantime, my name got listed among some of the important people in India. Though I have never craved to become a public figure, if you involve in noble works, then automatically you will receive respect, love, and recognition. When I was in India, I felt that in West Bengal, people gradually knew the fact that I am the person who is on this mission of establishing the artists and their artworks. I was spending my earnings on their well-being. I had no personal interests in the back of my mind. The only interest was to help these creative people and reach their art work to the public. Yes, it is true that my inner self was getting enlightened.
After coming back to Australia I had no job in my hand. I was feeling helpless and abandoned. I could not blame anybody, since it was my mistake that I took a very wrong decision of leaving the job. But I had nothing to do as it was my own wish to initiate a noble work and I should not keep fear and uncertainty in my mind. I was truly in trouble; I had no means of bread and butter. With this helplessness, I was looking outside, standing on the balcony, of my Merrickville, Sydney’s house. My eyes were gazing at the horizon. I was clueless about my life, I was jobless. In spite of this restlessness, I could not stop myself from staring outside the balcony and gradually my heart stopped bleeding and I got healed. Believe me, I swear, sitting on the balcony, while I was meeting my disappointments, suddenly a thought stirred me.
I talked to myself with a sudden flash of thought that who and why made this Earth? Why we are here for and what is our responsibility to this Earth! All of these questions made me restless.
Why is this Earth suffering so much! It is so beautiful, It is so vast and it is too kind to us, then why there is so difference between people around the world! Some are rich, some are poor, some have everything in abundance where some live in poverty and some have nothing. Some have jobs, some are jobless. Why this difference? Why this enviousness? Why is this disparity?
It seemed a new window of thoughts was opening up in my mind. I got a hint, a light, and a message from the Almighty to spread love and peace on Earth. Immediately, an idea came to my mind. An idea of celebrating a day, where there will be no disparity. A festival, where people will forget their differences of age, religion, caste, creed, and economical status. They will take an equal part in it and will be treated equally. I preserved my dreams in my mind like a precious gem in the coffer. Within a few days, I got a job fortunately and more or less got rid of the financial crisis.

Now I was getting prepared to fulfill my dreams in my ways, I was trying to be economically sound. I was working hard and was saving up. I decided to name the particular day as ‘Birthday Celebration of Our Beautiful Mother Earth’ on the “EARTH AND ART REVOLUTION DAY”.
Now I was confused when I should be celebrating Mother Earth’s birthday. We don’t know exactly on which date the earth was created. We don’t know when the forms of nature came into existence on earth. Ideally, the day life forms started existing on earth, is the day earth received the title of Mother Earth. After much thought, I randomly chose the 15th of January, to celebrate the birthday of Mother Earth and it was named “EARTH AND ART REVOLUTION DAY”.Now people will question why the 15th of January was decided as the birthday of Mother Earth!

No, I have no answer to your question.  Nobody has. Not only me, but none is also aware of the exact date of Mother Earth’s birthday. When the Earth came into being, there was no existence of calendars. It is till date, unknown to me that why did I choose the date 15th January! Maybe no occasion was being celebrated on that particular date as per the list of important dates and events by the U.N.O even that was not known to me.
However, I wouldn’t have changed the date even if there were some other important celebrations on that day. I wanted to follow my heart. Dates, events are all human-made and the purpose is more significant than the date. From May 2015, slowly days rolled down to October 2016.
I decided to bring out a promotional program on 31st October 2016, though I knew that all my savings would be consumed in this. I had to really work hard to convert my earnings into savings. I had to hire a decent auditorium for this purpose because to celebrate Mother Earth’s birthday, it was the initial condition that I had to fulfill.
The country which I loved, the country where I stayed, the country from where I made money, from where I have had my meals were going to be the witness and the part of my most imperative dream, was the biggest blessing in my life and I was happy and grateful to even think of it.
At last, the day of the celebration arrived. A grand promotional programme was arranged on 31st October 2016, in Sydney. I honored the Presidents and the Prime Ministers of different countries with invitation cards. I was thrilled when I received the confirmation letter from the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, supporting my thoughts and my initiations.
An auditorium was hired; the stage was decorated with royal dignity. Starting from the seats of the audience to everything, it was designed in a royal way. I decided to arrange an exhibition in this programme since I believed that, without your consciousness, supporting your love for artistry, there would be no fulfillment in life. I decided to choose this way of doing so. The exhibition included the paintings of various artists from Colombia, New Zealand, Australia, and India.
I remember the day; I went to invite Sukanta Ranjan Paul with the invitation card. I was surprised by his words. “Michael! I won’t accept this card like this. A day will come you will reach the pinnacle of success. I will think myself fortunate if you please put your autograph on this card.’ What a miracle was there in his vision, I can’t explain that. I could read the message that his eyes were revealing.
I was catching his attention constantly; it made me ponder. Now, it was time for me to give a second thought to my decision, as I already decided to leave the job. One thing that was bothering me, the insecurity of getting jobless. But, there was no other way to do this, as I was much confident and positive about my decision and my work. In order to achieve something, you have to lose something. I had a motive and I had to take it forward.
I was leading a low-key life and was saving my money. It was really hard to cover the cost of living in a foreign land. Ordinary people like me can understand my struggle.
The month of December arrived. I came back to India. Without wasting time I went to Kolkata Press Club, to book it for the Press Meet program. Environmentalist Sri. Subhash Dutta was invited, who with his immense effort and initiative has changed the venue of Kolkata Bookfair from Park Street to Salt Lake, just for the sake of keeping the city clean and pollution-free. Other eminent personalities were present too. You might get confused about whether it was a promotional program event or a press meet! Certainly, it was a press meet; rather it was a platform where I got the privilege to share my dreams, my aims, and my course of actions with my journalist friends and other proficient personalities. People from both print and electronic media in various languages such as Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and English were present there. These huge numbers of press and media convinced me that the mission on which I am is absolutely right and great. I became more positive, more assured, and more confident. Thus I took advanced preparation for the programme, to be held in 2017.                                  
Finally, the day 15th of January 2017, arrived. It is time to implement my dreams for the first time which I have seen with my open eyes. I can’t express my feelings in words. All I can say is that I am blessed and fortunate for I was able to make people understand my motive in the press meet.