‘I never write without reading, knowing, thinking. It takes time. Even with short pieces, I take time,” wrote Annadashankar Ray. In those short pieces, even those of a political nature, the focus was on expressing his core thoughts in as few words as possible. He
He was one of the greatest comedians of all time and undoubtedly one of the finest actors to have graced the Bengali screen. In a galaxy that included comic thespians like Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Jahar Roy, Santosh Dutta and Rabi Ghosh --- Tulsi Chakraborty’s contribution is
A still from Los Lobos The Arthouse Asia Film Festival has been running for five years in the city of Kolkata. But thanks to a lack of publicity and marketing, and most importantly, sponsorship and funding, very few cinebuffs in the city are aware of this
Eminent author Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as Shankar, will be conferred the Sahitya Akademi Award for his memoir titled ‘Eka Eka Ekashi’. This award to the 87-year-old author is long overdue. Sankar (generally known as Sankar in English-language literature ) since childhood had a
What on earth can explain the union of two complete strangers, coming from two nations with very different cultures and moorings, the younger one knowing the older one only through his writings? Can there be any other form of love that is deeper than this
The office para of Kolkata, that quintessential hub of chaos, where hundreds of feet tread every day in search of fate and livelihood. But Dalhousie is not just about offices, it is also about the city’s famous street food catering to the mobile crowd that
Hastings Chapel Driving down to Hastings from the Rabindra Sadan end, you will encounter a curious statue of an unidentified, undated, uniformed horseman on the premises of the PWD office. Clearly a military man of some importance, he carries an open sword as he sits atop
Ranjini Guha is an Associate Professor in History with research interests in Food History. She is author of the upcoming book, Foodscapes, Lockdown and Dinner Diaries Sea fishes do not top the favourite list of fish lovers in the Eastern part of India, unlike Western coasts
Palash Ghosh is the last of the Mohicans who continues to guard the secret recipe of world famous Bengal’s Bandel Cheese. He belongs to the only family of cheese makers who have held on to their secret gourmet art down generations, instead of looking into
Even if Gramophone is said to have been first patented in 1887 by Emile Berliner and mass-production of records started, it is interesting to note that within two years of Berliner’s discovery, ‘Koler Gaan’, as gramophone is known in Bengali, took a gigantic leap from