Anjan Chakraborty with his wife Arundhati Chakraborty “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Correctly said by Marcus Cicero, only readers would understand the importance of books in life. For most book lovers who love reading and are never without books, the
A Bid for Bengal Having begun in 2014, the Kolkata People’s Collective recently hosted another edition of Kolkata People’s Film Festival. It has been multi-functional in spreading awareness through what it terms 'Pratirodher Cinema' (Cinema of Resistance), through screenings of films not only through an annual
Drafting of Indian Constitution was a monumental task, but what about handwriting it and then illustrating it with relevant motifs from across India? Indian Constitution happens to be one of the rarest constitutions of the world that has a hand-written version in the form of
Representative image Why is West Bengal celebrating Poila Baisakh a day later than Pohela Boishakh in Bangladesh? Why does year zero in Bangabda, the Bengali era, begin in 593 AD after Poila Baisakh and 594 AD before? What, if anything, did Mughal emperor Akbar have to
In August 2020, with the world in the grip of the Covid 19 pandemic, chef Vikramjit Roy abandoned his plans to open a large fine dining restaurant and focused instead on a cloud kitchen, to aid farmers, suppliers, and his staff, not to mention his
‘He was one of the best actors in the world,’ Nemai Ghosh on Satyajit Ray Adapted from Nemai Ghosh’s book Manikda – Memoirs of Satyajit Ray, this GB series highlights on different unknown stories about the great director as told by photographer Nemai Ghosh who worked
Summer vegetables rarely excite the Bengali gourmand the way winter offerings seem to do. After all, how far outside of the box can one really step with a few varieties of ‘shaak’ and ‘dnata’ (stalks, for want of a better translation), jhinge (obscurely known as
What happens when a polymath and artist designer approaches design as a complex nation-building idiom? They surely in the process focus on modernisation and revivalism. Riten Mozumdar, born in 1927 was one such artist-designers of the Indian Modernist Design Renaissance who left a mark in
"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats." ― Ernest Hemingway. Since time immemorial, human beings have taken to water to survive, to explore, to travel, to trade, to irrigate, even to do household chores. For
Somendra Mohan Ghosh is a well-known environmentalist and green technologist Citizens of Kolkata seem to be indifferent to the city’s critical health condition as it gasps painfully for fresh air. Kolkata is endowed with diverse and distinctive traditional water bodies. They support large human populations and