This is a new addition to the North Bengal circuit and indeed has captured the eye of tourists! Gumba Dara is just 30 kilometers from Darjeeling and provides a quaint viewpoint in the lap of nature. Not high by altitude (around 6500 feet above mean
Have you ever heard of Roman Script typefaces, ‘Ray Roman,’ ‘Ray Bizarre,’ ‘Daphnis,’ and ‘Holiday Script?’—Four new fonts invented by none other than Satyajit Ray, who apart from being one of the leading film directors of the world, was also a master artist. He had
Out of the 100 best foreign films chosen by BBC, only one Indian film has made to the list --- Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. Needless to say, it has been placed at number 15, quite high in a list that is topped by Akira Kurosawa's
Working with several agencies like Ogilvy and Mather, DDB Mundra in the past, Siddhartha Sankar Roy is currently working with Genesis Advertising. He has been into this field for the past 12 years. Roy is a Bachelor of Arts from Indian College of Arts and
For the rural community of Bengal, who are primarily less affected by COVID-19, awareness building programme against this deadly virus for future spike is the necessity of the hour. Keeping this in mind the rural folk singers of Bengal, instead of keeping themselves homebound, are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44R3qbwoO0 And here comes the first feature film made during Lockdown days. To take a creative route during these trying times, multi award winning independent filmmaker Amartya Bhattacharyya, has come up with a feature film named ‘Made in Isolation.’ As he puts in: ‘This is perhaps
Burdwan in Bengal was once upon a time considered to be a very healthy place in the 1840s-50s and doctors prescribed patients to go there on holidays to revive their health. But that very Burdwan in the 1860s along with adjoining Hooghly district had turned
‘I listen only to Manna Dey’s songs….’ That’s what legendary singer Mohammed Rafi once told his fans. Indeed, Manna Dey was the soul of Bollywood’s playback circuit and still rules 100 years later. Such versatile and melodious voice laced with classical nuances made a niche
One of the most glamorous soccer players of India – Chuni Goswami is no more. Maidan will lose its sheen for sure. Goswami was arguably the finest ball player India has ever produced. At his prime in 1960-64, his balance, silky dribbling skills, slick ball
Sourish Mitra completed his Bachelor's in Commercial Art from Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, batch of 2005. Besides advertising, designing book covers is also his passion. At present, Mitra is the Creative Supervisor at Wunderman Thompson. The structure of the virus is quite unnerving. The