We never mourn the death of legends. Rather we celebrate them, their works and their memories. Just like legendary Dilip Kumar, who left this morning for the heavenly abode at the age of 98, but will forever be remembered by this land of Bengal, that
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) might be the most well-known science-fiction production of modern times, with its superheroes, villains, and aliens with shapeshifting powers and an evil agenda to take over the earth. However, nearly 60 years ago, four minds in Calcutta came up with
Tanmoy Chatterjee A photographer of national repute, Tanmoy has taken some beautiful shots of Kurseong in the rains, and GetBengal is thankful to him for giving us an opportunity to publish his photographs Traditional wisdom says that the monsoon is not the best time to visit a
The term Dokra (or Dhokra) comes from the Dokra Damar tribe, an extensive ethnic community now spread all across India. This tribe produces the traditional metalsmiths of West Bengal and Odisha, who have given Dokra artefacts their name, and their technique of lost wax casting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPOTHJ3CH9g Rural cooking videos have picked up in recent years and the familiar frame of frail, aged women seated in their mud-plastered courtyards or farm fields with traditional earthen cookwares, Shil-nora or Sil-batta (grinding stone) and mortar and pestle, ready at hand and cooking up a
If you wish to recreate Tagore’s Shesher Kabita on the foothills of the Himalayas in North Bengal instead of Shillong, then Rangaroon is the place to go. Why? It’s because during the spring and summer seasons, this small village in Darjeeling is awash with the
When it comes to authorship, folk songs can be hard to pin down. Many of our most popular folk songs have been around for what could be centuries, with their original creators remaining forever unknown. Such as the song ‘Bare bare ar asa hobe na
The Buddhadeb Dasgupta Memorial Trust, in association with the Forum for Film Studies and Allied Arts, has organised an event in commemoration of the master filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Celebrating Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Master of Surreal Art, will be held with a great deal of revelry on
Title: India in Monochrome Author: Sajal Ghosh Publisher: Bee Books, 2024 Price: Rs 2,990 On a trip to Nagaland to cover the state’s famed Hornbill Festival, photographer Sajal Ghosh stayed with a Naga family. On the surface, the man from Kolkata had nothing in common with the tribes of
Even if the colonial hangover fails to leave the bloodstream of an average Bengali babu, who dons hats and suits or plays golf in the Kolkata clubs even today, there was one woman in the 1800s who was so vehemently against her husband’s anglicised ways