Anasua Choudhury has always experimented with her songs, be they self written, be they adhunik numbers or even Rabindrasangeet. But when life played a cruel joke on her, she herself became a matter of experimentation. But Anasua had tremendous grit and determination that helped her
He is a college student, but has probably thought about women’s menstrual problems in a way that many of us haven’t. The ‘Padman of Bengal’ gave an exclusive interview to GB on why he stacks sanitary pads in public toilets • How did the idea of
‘The offered one..’ well, this is an offering made not to God, but to the upliftment of a society under British India. That’s what an Irish woman had done almost a century ago, right here, in Kolkata. Yes, you have got it right. We are
“His master gave him 2 annas and asked him to bring Sandesh. The servant was a bit confused, he never realized Sandesh is something that can be read, he thought it is a Bengali sweet delicacy. Thus, he stood beside the road and started asking
Gaane bhuban bhoriye debo, the eternal Shyamal Mitra song playing on the lips of Uttam Kumar on stage… Tanuja in the audience, taken aback at seeing her ‘driver’ turned to the singer she was mad for. What does Tanuja do? She sits down, with tears
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay has always been a filmmaker's favourite. And why not? He is one of the best story tellers that Bengali literature has ever produced. His tales are like a cinemascope, ready to be cooked in the right tones and presented before the audience.
Mango is a quintessential part of Bengal, from the first flowers that come in Spring to the final mangoes ripening in summer. Being a seasonal fruit, and considered as the King of all Fruits, with one of the largest export ratio from Bengal, mangoes are
Remember watching a Hindi movie in Elite long back in 2011, and a few English movies in theatres like Globe, Lighthouse, Jyoti, Metro and Chaplin as a child. What fascinated me in those days was not just the movies, but the Victorian façade and old-world
In this award-winning book, poet-novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay pushes himself beyond the frontiers of the ‘well-made novel’ into the fascinating world of family and period history, reportage, travel narrative, folklore and ethnography. A central achievement of the novelist lies in the manner, in which he integrates
Saheli Mitra speaks to academician and author Arnab Bhattacharya, who brings Bengal’s very own no-nonsense stories of satirist Troilokyonath Mukhopadhyay in English Why not join Domorudhar for an adda, this pujo? The comical hero of Domoruchorit, a collection of seven satires by 19th-century Bengali author, Troilokyonath