Indrajit: Where and how did you first meet Rituparno Ghosh? Prabuddha: I remember the first time he called me was on July 18, 2011. The date stands out because I had lost my mother just two days earlier. He told me he had started a project
Buddhadeb Guha - it still seems too early to call him the ‘late’ Buddhadeb Guha - inherited his love for nature and wildlife, as well as life in general, from his father Sachin Guha. The latter, a large, loud, prosperous, extremely generous man, would organise
Jorasanko Thakurbari Having entered the ‘native’ quarters on last week’s walk, we will continue our round of some of Kolkata’s grandest residences, commissioned by a group of elite citizens who largely rose to prominence under British patronage, mostly through trade with first the East India Company
Abhijaan One good news is that this year, not less than seven Bengali films have been chosen for screening at the 12th International Film Festival of Melbourne. The package presents a happy collage of filmmakers, subjects, treatment and approach. The festival will run from the second
Representative Image The Queen of the Hills is not just about the mighty Kanchenjungha, it is also about the ‘People’ of the Hills who from time to time made India proud. This year, two youths from Darjeeling, Atlanta Rai and Vishal Rana, make us proud by
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO5HD4SZHZs History is often controversial. Some incidents, however, have more of an impact than others. On August 18, 1945, an incident supposedly occurred that still arouses fierce passions among Indians, and has remained one of the most discussed chapters in modern Indian history. It is this
A team of Ghostbusters who call themselves the Detectives of Supernatural (DOS), has joined hands with Kolkata Police to launch the ‘Rise Above Fear’ campaign that aims to dispel dread of the unknown by providing rational explanations to unnatural occurrences. Detectives of Supernatural was first
‘The Legacy of Loss: Perspectives on the Partition of Bengal’. The title is fairly self-explanatory, but to make it clearer still, it describes an art exhibition on the Bengal Partition of 1947, on view until August 29 at Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC) in Anandapur,
“A bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke.” (Scott Stoll) What happens when one is bitten by the travel bug? Kolkata’s Parimal Kanji would know. A man in his mid-50s, Kanji is an adventurer with a burning desire to travel and he
After a long hiatus, theatres in Kolkata opened at 50 per cent capacity with two very indifferent films, followed by two distinctive films by noted filmmakers releasing on August 19. One of these is Binisutoy, written and directed by National Award-winner Atanu Ghosh. The other