A doctor by profession, Chiranjit Samanta is presently a faculty member of the Medical College, Kolkata. Painting and designing book covers have always been his hobby right from from a very young age. He is also associated with CartoonDol Kolkata. ‘Corona-COVID-19-Pandemic’ are all that we are
Bikram Singh Khangura was a dreamer and a poet. Kanika Bandopadhyay often called him ‘Kobi,’ as he loved penning down lines himself and infusing rhythmic words amidst lines of Rabindrasangeet. Bikram often talked to the trees, the fallen leaves of Sonajhuri and listened to their
Prasenjit Das is a civil engineering student. Born and raised in Chandernagore, Das’ had his interest in painting, especially mythological characters. The #Goviraltostopthevirus project helps one to think about the positive form of the virus. The detailed artwork by Prasenjit Das not only brings out the the
In days of minimal raw materials available for cooking food, probably many Bengali households are doing good during Lockdown days, for we can raise a curry storm with almost anything and everything. Take for example Pumpkin and Gourd. If we can make a gourd prawn
Mohan Singh’s son Bikram was a nature lover. Often, he spent his time cycling through the Sonajhuri forests of Santiniketan, or watching the Palash blooms, seeping in the fragrance of the wild Chhatim trees and then heading towards Patha Bhavan through the Bokul trees. Or
Born and brought up in Bankura, Sunetra has completed her Bachelors and Masters from Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. At present, she is working in Mumbai with an advertising agency, Marching Ants, as a graphic designer. The #Goviraltostopthevirus project is letting people re-imagine the look
An independent film-maker, Ranjay Raychoudhury, has been working in short films; associated with Turtle films production. He has also helped Pritha Chakraborty in making ad-films. Ranjay was a part of the making of the films, The Play (2013) and Inscription of Ashoka. Ranjay, in his childhood,
Have you ever heard of Roman Script typefaces, ‘Ray Roman,’ ‘Ray Bizarre,’ ‘Daphnis,’ and ‘Holiday Script?’—Four new fonts invented by none other than Satyajit Ray, who apart from being one of the leading film directors of the world, was also a master artist. He had
Out of the 100 best foreign films chosen by BBC, only one Indian film has made to the list --- Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali. Needless to say, it has been placed at number 15, quite high in a list that is topped by Akira Kurosawa's
Working with several agencies like Ogilvy and Mather, DDB Mundra in the past, Siddhartha Sankar Roy is currently working with Genesis Advertising. He has been into this field for the past 12 years. Roy is a Bachelor of Arts from Indian College of Arts and