Gazi Jalaluddin looks like any other 60 plus taxi driver. He is also humble, soft spoken, his words carry the rustic charm of a semi-rural dialect. But dig deep into his heart, and his eyes reflect a dream and the courage to fulfil the same.
Photographs of dewdrops by Nihar Ranjan Adak Walk me out in the mornin' dew my honey Walk me out in the mornin' dew today Earl Rose probably never walked barefoot on a misty morning along the dewy gardens of Victoria Memorial while writing this song for Grateful Dead
We are all familiar with Sukumar Ray, the nonsensical poet of Bengal and India, who was often compared to none other than Lewis Carroll. Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol, is a path-breaking collection of nonsense poems that have a deep-seated meaning, hidden behind the fun of
Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay is a poet, but is fond of writing short poems in form of calligraphy. He is re-interpreting this form of art. He met several Japanese artists in 1998-1999 and adapted their ways of working and implemented that in Bengali alphabets and characters. His
Ruma Chakravarti is a blogger and translator of Bengali prose and poetry, who lives in Australia. Three volumes of her translations of Rabindranath Tagore’s work were published at the Kolkata Book Fair in 2013. Another volume was published in 2016. Ruma’s translations of a collection
Pritha Sen is not just a celebrated food historian and journalist from Kolkata, she has been instrumental in bringing Bengali cuisine to the world. Be it the Goalondo Steamer Trail or whipping up Bengali cuisine in a celebrated restaurant of Goa, Pritha believes Bengali cuisine
Kolkata is a city that has often been a muse to Nobel Laureates and renowned international poets. But hardly ever the city has witnessed an International Poetry meet where poets from across the globe descended on this intellectual capital of India to make every moment
Baghbazar,Kolkata, Photo by: Abhishek Kundu Chetla Agrani, kolkata, Photo by: Avijit Dutta Mudiali, kolkata, Photo by :Avijit Dutta Purbachal , cluster 12, saltlake, kolkata, Photo by :Avijit Dutta CK-CL Block Puja, Salt Lake, Photo by : Kanika Guha Patuapara,kalighat, Photo by : Sourin Halder
They do not don weapons like Devi Durga, yet they are yoddhas, girls who have fought every bit of their existence and are now out to fight for the rights of others like them. They have made Bengal proud at the world arena and to
Let Me Take You Down ’Cause I’m Going to Strawberry Fields… whenever the melodious strain of John Lennon’s cult song, Strawberry Fields, one thinks of the West or even India’s Mahabaleshwar Hills. But Sukumar Mallick, a farmer from Siliguri did the unthinkable, by cultivating high-quality