Edward VII, Victoria Memorial Entrance Gate Indranil Halder is an entrepreneur living in Australia who is enthusiastic about preserving the heritage of Bengal If you walk down the southwest corner of Dalhousie Square you will come across the beautifully sculpted statue of the Maharajah of Darbhanga, the
Every Sunday, a standard Bengali household kitchen sends a whiff of that spicy aroma, one would die for --- Bangali r Kosha Mangsho. The dish that has seen many forms over the centuries, yet Bengali’s Kasha Mangsho has always ruled the roost. Yet, one wonders
Devi Durga’s idol did not change much in form for over two centuries. This form was quintessentially Bengali in nature, known as ‘Bangla Chaler Thakur.’ Due to constrictions of religious scriptures, even today, ‘Bonedi barir pujo’ or the elite class households of Bengal worship this
The first time I met Sharbari Dutta, she was busy organising an exhibition of her clothes, and didn't have much time for a rookie reporter with little or no idea of the Indian fashion scene. But matters subsequently improved to the point where she called
He was a self-taught artist. Yet, he excelled in his art forms. Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath’s brother, was one of the first modern painters of India, who brought in global art forms to Bengal. He was the first to learn Japanese brushwork from Kakuzo Okakura and
In Changing Visions, Lasting Images: Calcutta Through 300 years, Pratapaditya Pal mentions: ‘A type of art flourished in Calcutta, as nowhere else on the subcontinent, for almost as long as the city has existed. It is that of unfired clay sculpture, consisting primarily of representations
Indranil Halder is an entrepreneur living in Australia who is enthusiastic about preserving the heritage of Bengal Standing tall for past 375 years, lies the famous Amadpur Zamindar bari in the heart of Bengal’s Burdwan district. The bonedi bari belongs to the landowners - The Chaudhuri’s
For him, no woman was Charitraheen. All women, even a courtesan or a prostitute was pure. That’s why Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay is probably one author whose maximum number of works have been adapted for movies, both in Bollywood and even in Bengali cinema. And they
The late author Leela Majumdar once said Dhiren Bal reminded her of her brother Sukumar Ray A cat called Bhutu, his parents, and his friends live in a picture-perfect village somewhere in Bengal. All of them have neat little houses in their neat little village, all
For 130 years, the majestic Eiffel Tower has been a powerful and distinctive symbol of the city of Paris, and by extension, of France. The 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall tower is, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure of