Summer vegetables rarely excite the Bengali gourmand the way winter offerings seem to do. After all, how far outside of the box can one really step with a few varieties of ‘shaak’ and ‘dnata’ (stalks, for want of a better translation), jhinge (obscurely known as
What happens when a polymath and artist designer approaches design as a complex nation-building idiom? They surely in the process focus on modernisation and revivalism. Riten Mozumdar, born in 1927 was one such artist-designers of the Indian Modernist Design Renaissance who left a mark in
Ganadevata (1978) Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Ajitesh Bannerjee, Sandhya Roy, Madhabi Mukherjee, Samit Bhanja, Rabi Ghosh, Sumitra Mukherjee, Anup Kumar Director: Tarun Majumdar Two days from now, veteran actor and sometime MP Sandhya Roy turns 81. A three-time recipient of the Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Award, she made her
No wonder, generations had put her on a mantelpiece to eulogize. No other actress of Tollywood had the power to stir such intense emotions of an entire community, just like Suchitra Sen did and probably still does. She was an enigma whose aura, poise, screen
Tollywood stars Nusrat and Yash feature in director Shieladitya Moulik’s new film Mastermoshai Apni Kichhu Dekhenni, scheduled to release later this month. One of the few Bengali films based on student politics in recent times, it follows in the footsteps of a handful of predecessors
A giant mural of Satyajit Ray adorning the wall of a Metro Railway building in the Charu Market area of south Kolkata was unveiled on Monday. Chennai-based artist A-Kill painted the mural. Start India Foundation, in collaboration with Asian Paints, is behind the project, called
Home in the World: A Memoir Amartya Sen Allen Lane, Rs 899 As a young Amartya Sen sets foot in Cambridge for the first time, he writes, his excitement of visiting a new place is combined with the grief of severing his umbilical cord from his motherland. The
Bengal and its artisans have been leading practitioners of terracotta art for several centuries now. Beginning with mosques and temples, which were made of terracotta in the relative absence of other building materials, its use gradually spread to smaller artifacts and even articles of everyday
Subhas Chandra Bose and Emilie Schenkl in Karlsbad in 1935 For almost a year after his disappearance and alleged death on August 18, 1945, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family, not to mention the world at large, had no idea that he had left behind a wife
Letters from Russia by Rabindranath Tagore written in 1930 is not just a treasure trove of memories but a detailed explanation of a country’s psyche, a nation that blended socialism with violence and radical ideologies that Tagore felt might not bear fruit in future. The