My Bishnupur trail did not just end with the famous terracotta temples or Rash Mancha. It was also about the Baluchari Sarees, that unfortunately never got the status like Benarasi, but have enough potential to even excel a Dhakai muslin! Bishnupur was a prominent seat
When filmmaker Srijit Mukherjee was scheduled to release his film Gumnami (2019), based on a popular theory that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose actually survived the plane crash that supposedly killed him, many of Netaji’s descendants were voluble in their protest. In particular, his grand-nephew and
“Of all God’s gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.” – John Ruskin The Festival of colours is round the corner and though many of us will probably remain indoors and not play with colours, thanks to the Pandemic
Shushmita Banerjee is a teacher and a foodie. She loves turning her kitchen into a creative hub with freshly plucked fruits and vegetables from her garden In this hot summer, the smell and flavour of lemons are very refreshing and what can be better if it’s
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 Though I had an ancestry from what is now Bangladesh, quite similar to my husband's house, yet we were quite
Nasi goreng with chicken satay and peanut sauce by Anurita Nehra Last year, at about this time, the Covid-19 pandemic really came home to us as the nationwide lockdown went into effect. In the year since then, the world as we knew it has undergone immense,
‘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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eykFh0Ot-mo 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
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