The portrait of the Mother Elephant standing in a Kerala pond in pain with its unborn child within and dying a silent death, thanks to the firecracker laden pineapple given by villagers to eat, made me numb. It also reminded me of a fine wintry
No one could bring the sentiments of the Indian middle class better on celluloid than legendary film maker Basu Chatterjee. With his passing away, Indian cinema will lose the micro-feelings of the common man, that are usually dumped under the huge load of regular duties.
Read of the fishermen’s cove in Enid Blyton? And always imagined to sit in one such cove overlooking a village, watching fishermen cast their nets on the mighty rivers? The riverine village of Dhuturdaha in South 24 Parganas is one such location. Located near the
They are known as the Jungle Crows, but do not confuse them with any birds hovering on the Maidan, the Lungs of Kolkata. Rather, they are our very boys who are led by a visionary Briton to play Rugby! Yes Rugby, and not Football. In
Souvik Mitra has been practising art from a young age as his pastime. At present, he is an Engineering student. The structure of the virus is quite disconcerting. The #Goviraltostopthevirus project is a drive to engage people in the right way. The year 2020 has not really
As anti-racist protests rock the world, the first ‘man of colour’ and the youngest in the history of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), a Bengali award-winning TV producer has been appointed to hold a prestigious chair in BAFTA’s 73-year history. Majumdar, who has
Avrajit Saha is a student of The Indian College Of Arts And Draftsmanship from the Department of Painting. The #Goviraltostopthevirus is a successful project that is spreading positivity among the people during this tough time. Avrajit Saha has created a striking poster using various forms of creatures.
Aatpur is a small village in Hooghly district of Bengal, closely associated with the great patriotic saint of India – Swami Vivekananda. It houses the sacred fireplace (Dhuni Mandap) where he had taken the oath of sanyas (monkhood) in the year 1886. In 1882, Narendranath
Sumanth Maroju, 21 and Sonali Majumder, 15, the remarkable salsa dancers who recently mesmerized judges and the audience far away in USA in the premiere show of America’s Got Talent. Sonali comes from a non-descript village of Bengal and in her childhood she had not
One of the biggest cyclones of the century --- Cyclone Amphaan might have ravaged the paddy fields and fisheries of Sundarbans, but could not take away the resilience of farmers and the scientific know-how of Bengal’s agriculturists who have decided to grow salt resistant paddy