In 2020, director Meghna Gulzar’s feature film ‘Chhapaak’ was released and it made quite a splash and brought to the fore the traumatic battle of acid attack survivors. The biographical film was based on the life of Laxmi Agarwal, then a 15-year-old girl, who was
Born in Bombay in the year of India’s independence, died by suicide in a small Los Angeles jail cell in 1994. In sum, this was the life and death of Somen ‘Steve’ Banerjee who remains, till date, the most infamous Bengali immigrant to have landed
On April 1, 1868, a pretty young Anglo-Indian woman named Rose Brown was murdered in Calcutta, her throat slit almost ear to ear. Her body, discovered late at night by a beat constable on patrol duty, lay where she had died, mere minutes away from
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…” Poet Allen Ginsberg first read out these lines from his poem ‘Howl’ at a reading at the Six Gallery in December 1955. The reading was an immediate success and nearly 65 years on, the lines
As Britain celebrates 70 years or the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, Bengal makes its presence felt… with 200 silk flags made of fabric from Murshidabad, which formed the River of Hope at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant along the Mall in central London.
When you succumb to the culture, history and cuisine of Bengal in the middle of a magical penthouse overlooking the lush green grounds of Victoria Memorial, you get to realise something phenomenal is taking place. The world’s first ever Literature Festival on Bengal’s Mishti is
Tauseef Rahman has set a new standard for love and humanity. This 29-year-old resident of Alimuddin Street, is often seen distributing sanitary pads, building toilets under canals, providing daily meals to those who cannot afford even the basic food. Or he is seen installing fridges
Myriad birds created a live musical rhapsody every time someone knocked at Ajoy Home’s house. His house was an aviary of sorts where birds chirped merrily all day long. It was a common sight for any visitor to encounter him engrossed in his volume of
Dhokar Dalna We are always known as fish-eating or meat-eating Bengalis. There is a general perception that Bengalis are strictly non-vegetarian and even the ‘bhog’ we offer some of our deities is non-vegetarian, a strict no-no in other parts of India. But what many are not
Small, neat, cosy, colourful. Single screen, great sound. All of it for a ticket price of only Rs 30 per head. In a nutshell, that is Radha Studio inside and out. The city’s newest movie viewing destination was opened to the public on May 6