National award-winning director Sagnik Chatterjee reminisces the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray by recording the song of his film ‘Master Anshuman,’ made as a tribute to the Oscar winning filmmaker On the occasion of the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, Sagnik Chatterjee paid homage to the
How has Indian cinema treated Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose? This is the topic for the December 12 edition of 'The Anita Dialogues', a series of monthly conversations with Netaji's daughter Dr Anita Bose Pfaff, aired on YouTube and conducted by Sampriti, an organisation of Bengalis
She is just 21-year-old. But Srotoswini Sinha is already making ripples with her artwork on climate change. She has been featured with her artwork in a set of cards created for 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Glasgow recently. GB spoke exclusively to
More people were killed in the Bengal Famines of 1770 and 1943 than the number of Jews killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. But since there is no special day of remembrance for them, today, Human Rights Day, is as good an occasion as any
This year marks the birth centenary of legendary film director, author, music composer, illustrator Satyajit Ray. One of the giants of cinema, Martin Scorsese mentioned that “his (Ray) work is in the company of that of living contemporaries like Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and Federico
As rivers of the world go, the Bhagirathi-Hooghly has never really attained the iconic status accorded to the Indus, or Nile, or Amazon, or Ganges, or even the Mississippi. And yet, this vital arm of the Ganges has been no less critical in the shaping
Peepal Tree beside Birla Planetarium They have stood for decades, some even nearing a century, some even before many young residents of Kolkata were born. They have waved cyclones, modernization, felling and yet kept on with their stoic charm, watching the hustle and bustle of the city
While we speak of various European churches strewn across different parts of Bengal that speak of our colonial history, we often miss the 2nd largest church of India, St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral, which is popularly known as the Raiganj Church. The cathedral has a
It took them until 2020 to consider him for a Sahitya Akademi Award. The year his ‘Chowringhee’ turned 60, and he himself turned 86. We are of course talking about one of Bengal’s most popular, and curiously enough, perhaps one of its most underrated living
Elusive for more than 170 years, the Darjeeling Wildlife Division finally rediscovered the Satyr Tragopan Bird at the Senchel Wildlife Sanctuary. The first ever sighting of this very colourful bird was reported by Hickell in 1842 under British India, between the present Kurseong and Sonada