In this two-part series, we explore the history of modern Bengali theatre, beginning at the end of the 18th century, when a Russian Indologist and a few of his Bengali friends planted the seeds from which would sprout a flourishing tree. Through the heart of Kolkata,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5_w2W5G9OM The Covid-19 pandemic has opened up a new, ever-changing, perilous and transitory world, and so does the film Titane, that revisits the language of ‘taking care’. This offbeat offering is for those who are equally open to the idea of ‘tenderness’ and the pain that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rzI7QQAqCo Despite the bone-chilling cold of its location of Murmansk in Russia’s remote north-west, there’s a wonderful human warmth and humour in this offbeat romantic story of strangers on a train. Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, whose 2016 film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli
The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) 2022 has lined up a series of exclusive foreign films that one would otherwise perhaps have missed. Thanks to KIFF, film buffs will now have a chance to watch Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero, a film that has
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM4BT7Fh6M Adieu GODARD, a feature film written and directed by National Award winner Amartya Bhattacharyya and produced under the banner of Swastik Arthouse, will have its Indian premiere at the prestigious 27th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). This Indo-French venture, featuring Choudhury Bikash Das as the
Summer vegetables rarely excite the Bengali gourmand the way winter offerings seem to do. After all, how far outside of the box can one really step with a few varieties of ‘shaak’ and ‘dnata’ (stalks, for want of a better translation), jhinge (obscurely known as
What happens when a polymath and artist designer approaches design as a complex nation-building idiom? They surely in the process focus on modernisation and revivalism. Riten Mozumdar, born in 1927 was one such artist-designers of the Indian Modernist Design Renaissance who left a mark in
Howrah is often considered to be one of the most polluted cities of India, so much so that residents of different parts of the city suffer from respiratory ailments. Being an industrial city with multiple polluting factories and units, the air over Howrah is not
And finally, Professor Shonku is here, lifted from the pages of Satyajit’s Ray’s famous science fiction series to a theme park in the Rajarhat-New Town area. Though the park was inaugurated last year, due to Pandemic it could not be thrown open to the public.
Love is not always locked on the stones slabs of a street, at times it flows into the sheets of an accounts book too. Lovelock Street of Kolkata has no whiff of romance but is witness to a man who probably started the first Accounts