Rabindranath Tagore reigned supreme in the sphere of Bengali poetry. But in the 1920s, a group of new poets consciously distanced themselves from the Tagorean brand of mystic spiritualism and idealized romanticism, seeking to find a new poetic language to reflect their existential angst in
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, who died in 1873 on today’s date in Calcutta at the age of 49, spent most of his early life wanting to be an ‘English’ poet, and trying very hard to become one since he was 17. A popular story goes that
I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. When American poet-novelist Langston Hughes penned these lines, he was probably unaware that over half-a-century later in India, a profound believer in the mysteries of nature would embark on a soul-searching journey of a
Was Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah really an arrogant, cruel, spoiled brat who was indulged to excess by his doting grandfather Nawab Alivardi Khan? Was Mir Jafar really a barefaced traitor who offered the immensely rich province of Bengal to the British on a platter? Was Robert Clive
‘I can call my films my own without any qualm. Whatever is good or bad in my films is due to me… I feel much happier that way. Everything that I have learnt as an art director helped shape me into a filmmaker’… If one
Anjan Chakraborty with his wife Arundhati Chakraborty “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Correctly said by Marcus Cicero, only readers would understand the importance of books in life. For most book lovers who love reading and are never without books, the
Home in the World: A Memoir Amartya Sen Allen Lane, Rs 899 As a young Amartya Sen sets foot in Cambridge for the first time, he writes, his excitement of visiting a new place is combined with the grief of severing his umbilical cord from his motherland. The
Letters from Russia by Rabindranath Tagore written in 1930 is not just a treasure trove of memories but a detailed explanation of a country’s psyche, a nation that blended socialism with violence and radical ideologies that Tagore felt might not bear fruit in future. The
Letters from Russia by Rabindranath Tagore written in 1930 is not just a treasure trove of memories but a detailed explanation of a country’s psyche, a nation that blended socialism with violence and radical ideologies that Tagore felt might not bear fruit in the future.
‘Who is my Personal God?’ ‘How did mortality evolve?’ ‘Who conditioned the mind?’ ‘What are the pillars of religion?’ ‘Can we see the infinite through finite lens?’ Many such questions have probably rocked your mind often, as the close call of death during Pandemic times