The timeless appeal of a child’s love has never been portrayed as sensitively as Rabindranath Tagore did in his several poems and short stories. May be his eternal yearning for his own mother, who he hardly got to enjoy with, kept stirring his inner soul
She looks like a European, speaks like a Bengali in a perfect saree clad demeanour. Saheli Mitra speaks to Neline Mondal, the DADAGIRI CHAMPION, who is relentlessly trying to restore heritage of this erstwhile French colony • How was it like winning the Dadagiri Champs? I
Chandraketugarh is a 2300-year-old archaeological site located about 35 kilometres north-east of Kolkata. The site is located in a region that is still know for cotton weaving. It is a well-known historical fact that fine form of cotton or mousseline or muslin or malmal is
Our hazel eyed Bong beauty who had dominated the silver screen in Bollywood over decades will come over to Kolkata to be at the screening of her recent movie Nirban. This Goutam Halder bilingual movie that took almost seven years to complete is one of
“What has sustained my sanity through 52 years in Marketing and Advertising is an abiding interest in pro bono social projects,” that’s what Ram Ray had written about himself on his Linkedin profile. For the bigger world, he was one of the finest creative minds
It was an early morning, decades ago, when a roly-poly comic actor set his foot at Naresh Chandra Mitra’s house on Beltala Road. Naresh Mitra was an eminent director of those times and a well-known actor who rubbed shoulders with stalwarts like Shishir Bhaduri. The
Shaikh Rafiqul Islam was just 8 years old when his parents realised their son has a rare ailment as a result of which food that he takes in comes out of the urinary tract along with his urine. This condition not only created immense pain
GB traces the singing legend’s Bengali song If Lata Mangeshkar has reigned supreme in Bollywood for decades, her Bengali songs of yesteryears, specially those on tunes by Salil Chowdhury had changed the course of modern Bengali songs forever. Very close to another singing legend Hemanta Mukherjee,
Andie MacDowell, a name that had rocked an entire generation and movies like Sex, Lies & Videotape had taken all by the horns and set exemplary screen shows in Hollywood. No wonder at the KIFF inauguration even King Khan, Shah Rukh was direct in professing
Kolkata will host some of the best brains of the IT world at the India Internet Week 2019 between November 11-17. This global meet will address people’s views, policies, standards and governance of Internet. One will get a chance to meet more than 300 Internet