There was a classic 'tears beneath the laughter' story that Bhanu Bandyopadhyay reportedly loved to tell. "You know what my life is like? I'll tell you. My mother has just passed away. I'm waiting at the crematorium, eyes full of tears. Somebody comes up to
On August 28, East Bengal Club will take on ATK Mohun Bagan FC at Kolkata’s Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan (VYBC), or ‘Salt Lake Stadium’ as we call it. Those who mock the fever-pitch excitement of fans on both sides of the East Bengal-Mohun Bagan rivalry
Chaitali Dasgupta, Saswati Guhathakurta, Chhanda Sen, Tarun Chakraborty, Pankaj Saha – if these names strike a chord, and you can instantly recall the faces associated with them, then you most probably grew up watching, or simply watched a lot of, DD Bangla in the 1970s,
For the younger generation of Bengalis, the phrase ‘Baishe Srabon’ would probably mean the 2011 film by Srijit Mukherji. For their slightly older counterparts, it could also mean the 1960 film of the same name by Mrinal Sen. The origin of both titles, of course,
Representative Image IGiven Calcutta’s status as the ‘second city of the British Empire’, it should come as no surprise that it became a target for Japan at the height of World War II (1939-45). A paranoid British-Indian government clearly believed very strongly in the possibility of
With cyclone season still upon us, we should perhaps be thankful that neither West Bengal nor Bangladesh seem to have attracted a major cyclone thus far this year. However, with no guarantee of when the next one may strike, we thought it a good time
Bank of Bengal building With the uproar generated by Mumbai lawyer Vedika Chaubey filing a case against actor Ranveer Singh for his nude photoshoot, and the ongoing Enforcement Directorate (ED) proceedings against West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee and his associates for alleged financial irregularities, we
Flag of India 1907 (Nationalists Flag) Today is what we have come to know as Flag Adoption Day, the day the tricolour was officially adopted as the flag of independent India. What’s more, we are now in the 75th year of said adoption. And still, very
Image Courtesy : Nepali Times “T“To Calcutta, much abused, much loved, always interesting.” Thus reads the dedication in the book ‘Calcutta, An Artist’s Impression’, first published in 1968 by The Statesman Ltd, and later republished as a commemorative volume. The author of this remarkable book was
Changwon, South Korea. Not a name familiar to most Bengalis, but likely to be remembered now as the venue where Bengal girl Mehuli Ghosh clinched gold in the 10 m Air Rifle Mixed Team final of the Shooting World Cup on July 13 along with