"Bhogobaaner guptochor, mrityu eshe baandhuk ghor/ chhonde ami kobita chharbo na!" Alokranjan Dasgupta seemed to have learned rhythm from the womb itself. He wanted to bind the whole world through the magic of words. His childhood was spent in Santiniketan. With his classmate Amartya Sen, he published a
Letters have long disappeared from our everyday lives. Once, there were messages. Now, we just “text.” With a single tap, we can send words instantly, and with another tap, erase them forever. In such a time, it feels necessary to pause and think about the
In Kolkata, Durga Puja is much more than a festival, it is an emotion that engulfs the city in joy, light and devotion. The bonedi bari pujas are the type of pujas hosted by rich, old families and are a testament to our history, culture, and tradition - in a
Durga Puja in Kolkata has now become one of the biggest business hubs on the world map. Even if we leave out the big corporate houses, Durga Puja has turned into a major earning opportunity for small and medium-scale traders.This is surely a positive thing. Everything
Cinema has always been visually oriented, a desire for spectacle, from its very beginning. When the Lumière brothers screened their films for the first time, the rush of a train coming down the track made viewers feel something and irrevocably impressed a memory on us.
Iasonas Psarakis is a Greek-born composer, musician, and filmmaker, specializing in North Indian classical music and global music traditions. He came to India from Greece and earned a degree in Hindustani classical music (sitar) from the Music Faculty at Visva-Bharati University. Iasonas’s music has reached audiences in
Late 1980s. Aniruddha Dhar decided to make a docudrama on Uttam Kumar. The producers were Indrajit Sen and his brother Indranil Sen. It was planned as a television series for Doordarshan. The theme was this: an ageing filmmaker wanted to make a film on Uttam Kumar.
“Apnare loye bibroto rohite/ ashe nai keho obonee pore/ sokoler tore sokole amra/ protyeke amra porer tore…” We all grew up reading this poetry by Kamini Roy. But how many of us truly understand its meaning? And even if we do, how many of us are
Around 2008, Alice Walker’s daughter Rebecca Walker wrote: “Strangely, my mother thought of herself as very maternal. She would travel the world campaigning for women’s rights, portraying them as oppressed. She would set up organizations for abandoned girls in Africa—presenting herself as the very embodiment
Single-screen theaters in Kolkata are embedded in the city’s past—it has become an intrinsic part of its identity. These theaters formerly beamed as the locus of entertainment of the common folks, where clerks, teachers, doctors, and drivers could all sit in the same hall. Crowds could