Kolkata will host a unique Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop (FPRWI) from November 15 to November 22 this year. A city that is known as the mecca of internationally acclaimed film makers and equally erudite intellectual audience, Kolkata has always looked beyond just ‘watching movies
Shei Shomoy was a trendsetter. In this award-winning book, poet-novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay had pushed himself beyond the frontiers of a ‘well-made novel’ into the fascinating world of family and period history, reportage, travel narrative, folklore and ethnography. He had integrated local folklores of Bengal into
Moments freeze on frames. That’s how moments are kept alive and dreams are made. Walking down memory lanes enables a person to feel old suburbs, friendly trees, familiar indoors, snowy mountains or even get an insight into his own heart. Young photographer Pratik Dey Chowdhury
For lovebirds of South Kolkata, Menoka and Priya Cinema halls have always been the favourite hangouts. Not just strolling down the picturesque Lakes, couples and families have often dropped in for a movie at Menoka Cinema Hall. Built in 1949, this iconic South Kolkata hall
Coffee House er shei adda ta aaj aar nei (the famous Coffee House adda is no more). Well, Manna Dey’s hit song might be all about missing old friends and the College Street Coffee House rendezvous, but Maya Art Space relived the quintessential ‘Kolkata Adda’
The minute one speaks of Noakhali, images that float before us are those of riot-hit areas, ravaged by bloodshed, rape and loot. The Noakhali genocide is what this port town of Bangladesh is synonymous to even decades later. But Noakhali on the banks of Meghna
“Yes, I wanted to kill the governor. Unfortunately, I failed…. He is the living image and the supreme symbol of a government, and an administrative system, which has enslaved my country and kept it in chains. I wanted to attack that symbol….”, fiery words that
What has journalist-cum-activist Gauri Lankesh’s murder to do with Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire? Well, there lies an uncanny link indeed, as it was that very night, when ace actor and director Aparna Sen had a dream. May be disturbed by the news of the murder,
Fragrance of Shiuli flowers strewn on a morning path or sailing white clouds in the autumn sky… quintessential images of a Bengal autumn that speak of the arrival of Maa Durga… these images never came to my mind when I was a child. We were
