Vivek Kumar, Principal Secretary, Forests & Animal Resources Development West Bengal Sparsho jaane ondho chokh… (even the sightless eye knows touch). Thus begins the latest offering by a singer who has quickly made a name and place for himself in the hearts of Kolkatans. All the
Legendary singer Sandhya Mukherjee About a decade ago, I was coordinating a music video project involving 100 icons of Bengal. Naturally, Gitashree Sandhya Mukhopadhyay would be foremost among them. Having been warned that she was not particularly receptive when it came to anything other than music,
Akaash jokhon chokshu bojey Ondhokarer shokey Tokhon jemon shobai khojey Suchitra Mitra-ke, Temon abaar katley andhaar Surya uthley pher Amra shobai khoj kori kaar ? Suchitra Mitra-er. Tari ganer jyotsnajoley Bhashai Jibonkhani, Tai to takey shilpi boley Bondhu boley jani. -- Nirendranath Chakroborty (Translation: When the sky closes its eyes and loses into darkness, people search for Suchitra
Toto driver Arup Das, an aspiring singer Ancient Greek philosopher Plato saw the power of music in its ability to imitate emotions. In the Republic he wrote, “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
Calcutta, 1962. One of the city’s premier fine dining restaurants, popular for its live Western music, decided to go with an instrumental version of the song ‘Matwali Ankhon Wale’, from the recently released film Chhote Nawab. Shocked and embarrassed patrons looked askance at each other.
The Central African Republic is the focal point of the Bangui Magnetic Anomaly, one of the largest and most intense crustal magnetic anomalies on the African continent and also one of the largest magnetic anomalies on Earth. This landlocked country in Central Africa is also
Music has its own language. Every community has different languages they speak or sing that depict their lives and make them feel alive. Similarly translating a song and making it familiar to a bigger audience is one way, through which music travels far and wide.
Nikhilesh, Moidul, D’souza, Rama Ray, Amal, Sujata. For close to four decades, these names have been an integral part of the cultural life of Bengal. These are the names from the ‘Coffee House’ of our dreams, the friends who formed the backbone of the song
Living Waters Museum! Does that sound contradictory and weird? But it exists and the Kolkata chapter has been opened by none other than Sukrit Sen, the 28-year-old disaster and heritage manager who has blended water with music. He is a part-time researcher at the International
Ananda Samarakoon, the man of Sri Lanka who voluntarily embraced death wrote a song that is today’s National Anthem of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankans sing their anthem with varied emotions, though Samarakoon could never be a part of such proud moments. He chose to