Amartya Bhattacharya is a techie of Infosys who also happens to be a National Award winning film-maker. But hardly any of us in Bengal know his name, for he has made more movies in Odia than in Bengali. He opens up his heart to GB
Photographs of dewdrops by Nihar Ranjan Adak Walk me out in the mornin' dew my honey Walk me out in the mornin' dew today Earl Rose probably never walked barefoot on a misty morning along the dewy gardens of Victoria Memorial while writing this song for Grateful Dead
Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay is a poet, but is fond of writing short poems in form of calligraphy. He is re-interpreting this form of art. He met several Japanese artists in 1998-1999 and adapted their ways of working and implemented that in Bengali alphabets and characters. His
I had fallen in love with Arjun as a teenager. That smart guy from North Bengal, who had chased drug pedlars and hippies. But he was in love with US-based Sita. That truly broke my heart! Yes, Arjun was my first crush. I have never
Against the dim lights of the Kalighat bridge past Kolkata’s Poto Para, where decked up prostitutes hover around every afternoon, one gets to see these days hordes of dhaaki families couched under shades of old houses with their dhaaks. One can also hear the reverberating
‘Highhhhlyyy Sussspicious…’ that stress on the ‘S’ made all the difference as Jatayu aka Lal Mohan Ganguly (also pronounced in an anglicized style) tried to express his thoughts to Feluda in Sonar Kella. Rather should we say the manner in which veteran comedian Santosh Dutta
Moumitra Mitra is a vocalist in Indian Classical Music who has popularized Indian music in Beijing! How did she do that? She tells GB readers in this exclusive interview • Since when have you been promoting Indian classical music in China?; I had been appointed by ICCR,
Step into the 14-acre campus of ATI in the heart of Salt Lake, and you will be greeted to nature’s splendour, with birds chirping in a symphony as the afternoon sun moves towards the horizon, beating down all day with all its power. But the
Saheli Mitra is a resident of Block ‘C’ New Alipur “I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,” that’s how Antony expressed his respect for Julius Caesar in a subtle way, using an apt underused phrase, before a crowd cheering Brutus for killing Caesar.
As a child my first tryst with freedom was when I recited Rabindranath Tagore’s poem ‘Bon er pakhi/ Khanchar pakhi’