2021 marks the birth centenary of ‘Sangeetacharya’ Subinoy Roy, a teacher par excellence whose melodious performance and extraordinary skills as trainer have been charming generations. He was different in his style, compared to the era he came from, yet captivated his audience with his rendition
HThe seventh edition of India’s first Bengali literary festival, Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsab (ABSU) curated by Oxford Bookstores, ended at Oxford Bookstore on December 12. The good thing is, the end here does not necessarily mean the end, because the sessions are available digitally for
Some people make us smile simply by existing. Shibram Chakraborty, the great humorist born in Kolkata in 1903 on today's date, is one such person. Chakrabarty was born into the well-known Chanchal Raj family, and his father Shibprasad Chakrabarty would often speak of the road
National award-winning director Sagnik Chatterjee reminisces the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray by recording the song of his film ‘Master Anshuman,’ made as a tribute to the Oscar winning filmmaker On the occasion of the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, Sagnik Chatterjee paid homage to the
She is just 21-year-old. But Srotoswini Sinha is already making ripples with her artwork on climate change. She has been featured with her artwork in a set of cards created for 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Glasgow recently. GB spoke exclusively to
This year marks the birth centenary of legendary film director, author, music composer, illustrator Satyajit Ray. One of the giants of cinema, Martin Scorsese mentioned that “his (Ray) work is in the company of that of living contemporaries like Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and Federico
As rivers of the world go, the Bhagirathi-Hooghly has never really attained the iconic status accorded to the Indus, or Nile, or Amazon, or Ganges, or even the Mississippi. And yet, this vital arm of the Ganges has been no less critical in the shaping
While we speak of various European churches strewn across different parts of Bengal that speak of our colonial history, we often miss the 2nd largest church of India, St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral, which is popularly known as the Raiganj Church. The cathedral has a
It took them until 2020 to consider him for a Sahitya Akademi Award. The year his ‘Chowringhee’ turned 60, and he himself turned 86. We are of course talking about one of Bengal’s most popular, and curiously enough, perhaps one of its most underrated living
Sindhis are not only great hosts and love their guests, they are also food loving people. The Sindhi cuisine covers a wide variety, which caters to everyone’s taste. Right from nutritious meals to ones those tickle taste buds. I know by now you must be