Nemai Chand Boral was a man of few words. Sometimes he would casually ask Mohan Singh to drop in at his quarter saying, “Come over to our house this evening. My wife will be cooking luchi and aloo dum curry.” After dinner music would follow.
Pinaki De is a graphic designer associated with frontline Indian and International publishers. He also has a day job as an Associate Professor of English literature. Photographs courtesy-- Satyaki Ghosh I first met Nemai da in 2010 when I was chosen as the designer for his photobook
He has been Satyajit Ray’s photographer for long 25 years. He had captured the world famous Oscar Winning film director in different moods and these photographs had been showcased in a travelling exhibition with a world premiere on 20th June, 1991. Nemai Ghosh was indeed
He is an icon amid the infinite ocean of music. Although born in a Punjabi family in a village near Kila Raipur in Ludhiana district, he prefers to be identified as a Santiniketan ashramite. He is Mohan Singh Khangura. Born into an educated, liberal family
Beyond the bounds of life and death There you stand, O my friend! On World Poetry Day, I cannot think of anyone better than Rabindranath Tagore, to give us solace amidst the mayhem and fear of the new strain of a virus that is killing one human
At a stone’s throw from Saktigarh station of East Burdwan lies Barshool village, home to the erstwhile zamindars of the locality --- the Dey family. The family had established their home in the area during the reign of Murshid Quli Khan, also known as Mohammad
Veteran thespian/ director Pradeep Bhattacharya’s name has transcended way beyond his group, Bahrampur Repertoire, thanks to the groundbreaking work he has been doing with the inmates of Circle Jail, Baharampur prison. He has been training convicts serving life-imprisonment in theatre and taking them across India
Jalpaiguri’s ‘Lalmohan’ sweets have been a gourmet delight for the people of North Bengal since long. Phoolbari of Jalpaiguri was once a de-serted town, where refugees from Bangladesh’s Myemensingha district had relocated after Partition. One of them, Manindramohan Ghosh is said to have started making
He was the quintessential ‘Everyman.’ With a crown full of unruffled, matted hair, the strap of a much-used, shabby cotton tote bag hanging from one side of his lean shoulder containing useful tools – his sketch books, pens, pencils and ink bottles and a very
It is beyond our imagination to envision the life of females in 19th-century colonial Bengal. On the fragile shoulders of the girl child lay the burden of keeping the patriarchal structure of the Hindu family in place. Most girls from middle class and upper class