As a child, I had witnessed many rituals at home or in the local temples that involved throwing of the humble feather-light sweet ‘batasha.’ They flew off like airy brittle puffs of spun sugar, white or brown and led to a mad scramble among devotees
The International Culture Festival under the auspices of the International Culture Centre paid tribute to the memory of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay in celebration of the iconic writer’s 127th birth anniversary on September 12. The tribute came in the form of a screening of the film Talnabami,
Shahanshah Mirza is great-great grandson of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and a heritage enthusiast in his own rights Even if the COVID-19 pandemic is raising its ugly head, the kites will still fly high. For the sky has no limits and freedom of the kites when
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat,
Actor-producer Rituparna Sengupta, curator Myna Mukherjee, artist Harshit Agarwal, and filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh at the inauguration The man vs machine debate is now more than a generation old. So we’re not going there. However, walking through Harshit Agarwal’s fascinating art exhibition titled ‘EXO-Stential – AI Musings
Down generations Ei poth jodi na shesh hoy, has inspired the romantic soul, pure unadulterated emotions swinging over a two-wheeler with Krishnendu and Rina Brown enjoying the whiff of the wind and a journey that never ends. Who can ever forget that iconic ride of
Asked about the first published novel in Bengali, most of us would probably say ‘Alaler Gharer Dulal’ (1857-58), written by Peary Chand Mitra under the pseudonym Tekchand Thakur. And we would be wrong. While a pioneering novel in many ways, this wasn’t the first published
Kanthalia village in Murshidabad district is renowned for its clay dolls. The potter community of this locality has been making these dolls using centuries’-old traditional techniques which have been passed down for generations. The hand-crafted dolls mostly portray ordinary scenes from rural life like women
Not far from Ausgram in East Burdwan stands a series of mounds that may appear to be non-descript at first sight, but none the less bear footprints of a rich archaeological site. ‘Pandu Rajar Dhibi’ of Ausgram II Block in the Sadar North subdivision of
Imagine chanting Buddhang Swaranam Gachhami in the middle of a Mango and Mosque town of Malda. But isn’t that what Bengal is all about? Where humanity reigns, where art mingles, where tradition and culture reign above religious divide. Jagjivanpur – one of the Buddhist excavation