When I first read about Sujata, the mother of corpse number 1084, I could not hold back my tears. I was a college student then and had always been very curious about the Naxal Movement that had rocked Kolkata years before I was born. Heard
Today will be no ordinary day for the ordinary citizen of Bengal. For no matter, how hard Bengal government tries to keep the state normal and everything moving, there will be elements on the streets that will try to make life difficult for the common
If you happen to have descended from ancestors, who lived or still live in Bangladesh, then you must have heard stories of not just yummy pithe, but of a Poush Sankranti that is still celebrated OparBanglaa style! Ever heard of mera-merighar? Or even of Shakrain
Let’s start with words and not with movie dialogues…. Let’s start with letters…. Satyajit Ray: ‘May I point out that the topicality of the theme in question stretches back into antiquity, when it found expression in that touching fable about the poor deluded crow with a
How does it feel when Raghu Rai’s magnum opus on Kolkata finds a neighbour in Nemai Ghosh’s old city photographs and then go on to have a rendezvous with unseen photographs clicked by the sensitive director Satyajit Ray! And that display is interspersed with unseen
He is a man whose satire has always harboured the sensitivity of an extremely intelligent mind. In my college days, when most of my friends spoke of Sunil Gangopadhyay and Shakti Chattopadhyay, I grew up on a dose of satire, thanks to my parents. And
“Apart from worshipping the Formless, no community may worship any idol depicting god, man, or animals; neither may anyone arrange sacrificial fires or rituals in Santiniketan. No insult to any religion or religious deity will be allowed here. The sermons given here will be such
As one steps inside the Kala Bhavan campus of Santiniketan, one comes across three stupendous murals, that will catch your sight in the first instance. One is etched in black and white paint depicting the tale of Ramayana on one wall and that of Durga
Janet MacLeod Trotter is a British author who has more than 20 historical novels to her credit including a series on the Tea Planters of Bengal and Assam under the British era. She will be signing her latest book in Kolkata on 22nd November. She
Come winter and the Sal and Piyal trees of Birbhum start shedding their leaves, a phenomenon often captured on an artist’s canvas, but more so in Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry. Pata Jharanor Shomoy Hoyechhe Shuru (the time has begun for shedding of leaves) probably starts off