He celebrated his 98th birthday on 9th October this year. Yet, Abanindranath Tagore’s grandson Amitendranath Tagore is so passionate about his work and stories of Santiniketan and Chinese artists, that he decided to share them at an informal adda at MAYA Art Space. MAYA has
Their men once upon a time were famous potters of Bengal. But lack of government funding and profits from selling their clay products, turned most of them into small traders of vegetables, rickshaw pullers or even furniture traders. But while the husbands are away trying
India’s colossus of photography Raghu Rai who has 50 years of work behind him has won the first edition of the prestigious French Award of the Académie des beaux-arts Photography Award. The jury named Rai as the laureate of the first edition of the Académie
In Hindu culture, one of the manifestations of Brahman is satya (truth). In Christianity, in the process of crucifixion of Jesus, Pontius Pilate exclaims, “What is truth?” For millennia, human beings of all cultures and faiths, have pondered on the nature of what constitutes the
Alpona has always been an intrinsic part of Bengali art and ethos. However, due to lack of time, space and expertise, this art is dying. In a view to revive the art form among the rural children, Chalchitra Academy recently held workshops at Khowabgaon. Present
It was a deadly disease spread by sand fly in a large parts of Eastern India, under British Raj. Not just Bengal, large parts of adjoining Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand were reeling under the Kalazar fever along with malaria when Dr U.N Brahmachari stepped into
The intellectual capital of India is gearing up for the Kolkata International Film Festival 2019 and this year the theme country is Germany. It is honour for Kolkata to be hosting famous Oscar-winning German filmmaker and director Volker Schlondorff who will be inaugurating the festival.
With an aim to reach out free health check-ups, medicines and other benefits to the poor people of both urban and rural Bengal, Swasthya Sathi Scheme was started. The scheme is so successful that by November around 1 crore beneficiaries will be added to the
Kolkata International Film Festival 2019 (KIFF) is round the corner and the intellectual capital of India is truly gearing up for a major show. But this year the organisers will bring in a new magic, the magic of Celluloid format movies. As many as 12
When I first read about Sujata, the mother of corpse number 1084, I could not hold back my tears. I was a college student then and had always been very curious about the Naxal Movement that had rocked Kolkata years before I was born. Heard