When was the last time you stopped your car, on way to some plush resorts in Raichak or Amtala off Diamond Harbour Road and dropped in at the Gurusaday Museum? While the social media has gone viral with the worldwide Bengali diaspora lamenting: ‘O My
What Salil Chowdhury searched through his protest songs, remembering numerous casualties in the bloody riots of 1948-49, food riots, farmers’ movement and after death of his close friend and poet Sukanto Bhattacharya, somewhere rings a chord with what singer, Farzana Wahid Shayan of Bangladesh sings
Director of Phoring, Indranil Roychowdhury, returns with a dark short film, depicting the annihilation of a city and the emotional destruction of a woman. Bhalobashar Shohor (City of Love) was recently released online and attracted reverse crowd funding. The story swings between a devastated Syria
In 1985, the wife of the contemporary Indian President was detected with a grave neurological disease and needed to undergo surgery. The President’s private physician as well as the eminent Indian neurosurgeon of that time – Dr Ramamurthy advised him that only one individual –