Sanatan Dinda is a four-time World Champion in Body Painting. Yet, very few of us know of this achievement of his. Is body painting and nudity still a taboo in India? What does Dinda say? • How are you popularizing the art of body painting
Photographs of dewdrops by Nihar Ranjan Adak Walk me out in the mornin' dew my honey Walk me out in the mornin' dew today Earl Rose probably never walked barefoot on a misty morning along the dewy gardens of Victoria Memorial while writing this song for Grateful Dead
Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay is a poet, but is fond of writing short poems in form of calligraphy. He is re-interpreting this form of art. He met several Japanese artists in 1998-1999 and adapted their ways of working and implemented that in Bengali alphabets and characters. His
Ruma Chakravarti is a blogger and translator of Bengali prose and poetry, who lives in Australia. Three volumes of her translations of Rabindranath Tagore’s work were published at the Kolkata Book Fair in 2013. Another volume was published in 2016. Ruma’s translations of a collection
Pritha Sen is not just a celebrated food historian and journalist from Kolkata, she has been instrumental in bringing Bengali cuisine to the world. Be it the Goalondo Steamer Trail or whipping up Bengali cuisine in a celebrated restaurant of Goa, Pritha believes Bengali cuisine
Kolkata is a city that has often been a muse to Nobel Laureates and renowned international poets. But hardly ever the city has witnessed an International Poetry meet where poets from across the globe descended on this intellectual capital of India to make every moment
Baghbazar,Kolkata, Photo by: Abhishek Kundu Chetla Agrani, kolkata, Photo by: Avijit Dutta Mudiali, kolkata, Photo by :Avijit Dutta Purbachal , cluster 12, saltlake, kolkata, Photo by :Avijit Dutta CK-CL Block Puja, Salt Lake, Photo by : Kanika Guha Patuapara,kalighat, Photo by : Sourin Halder
Anyone who has read the book Manojder Advut Bari by veteran author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay knows what a gem of a comedy literature it is! It not just throws you into a crazy world of a young boy Manoj and his family, but it also follows
I had fallen in love with Arjun as a teenager. That smart guy from North Bengal, who had chased drug pedlars and hippies. But he was in love with US-based Sita. That truly broke my heart! Yes, Arjun was my first crush. I have never
The word Trunk will always relate to that glossy tin box that used to hold our winter woollens, taken out every noon to bask in the sun. But trunks are a tale of the past. We hardly get to see them in an age when