For everyone who has ever walked into an art exhibition or looked at a painting or been intimidated by an article on art, an art appreciation course is just what you need. While the popular perception seems to be that ‘art’ is a specialised subject
In this two-part series, we explore the history of modern Bengali theatre, beginning at the end of the 18th century, when a Russian Indologist and a few of his Bengali friends planted the seeds from which would sprout a flourishing tree. Through the heart of Kolkata,
In the Kaliachak block of Malda stands an ancient town called Bangitola with a history of more than a century. And in this very village-town is the famous Muktakeshi temple lined with rows of age-old shops that sell a special sweet known as Monda. It
The short film Home, directed by Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee, has been officially selected by the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival in the 'Short & Documentary Panorama' category. The film traces “women sharing their ecstasies, uncertainties, solitude, libido and a friendship with oneself”, and unfurls like
The Covid-19 pandemic has opened up a new, ever-changing, perilous and transitory world, and so does the film Titane, that revisits the language of ‘taking care’. This offbeat offering is for those who are equally open to the idea of ‘tenderness’ and the pain that
“A man who drank like a fish, smiled like an angel, fought his enemies like a demon and loved his comrades like a primitive God.” This is a quote from an entry on Sagina Mahato in the British Library’s Endangered Archives Blog. It is not clear
Despite the bone-chilling cold of its location of Murmansk in Russia’s remote north-west, there’s a wonderful human warmth and humour in this offbeat romantic story of strangers on a train. Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen, whose 2016 film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli
আমার জন্য একটুখানি কবর খোঁড়ো সর্বসহা লজ্জা লুকোই কাঁচা মাটির তলে- গোপন রক্ত যা-কিছুটুক আছে আমার শরীরে, তার সবটুকুতে শস্য যেন ফলে। O earth, dig a small grave for me Let me hide my shame under the raw soil– Whatever secret blood is in my body, Let every ounce ripen the grains. Our
The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) 2022 has lined up a series of exclusive foreign films that one would otherwise perhaps have missed. Thanks to KIFF, film buffs will now have a chance to watch Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero, a film that has
Serampore is a quiet town, 35 kilometers from Kolkata on the other side of the River Hooghly, right opposite Barrackpore. As soon as one sets foot here, time travel begins. Hundreds of years have passed but even today, every brick-and-mortar structure of the medieval town