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Manjira Majumdar

A masters’ in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Manjira Majumdar has dabbled in journalism, teaching and gender activism. She shares her love for cinema, books, art and four-legged creatures with her family consisting of a husband and two daughters.
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Celebrating Women and Weaving through Songs

Women have always done the preparatory work like spinning of the yarn as part of the work leading up to the final weaving.

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Celebrating Immigration and Immigration Literature

It is the nature of man to seek beyond his comfort zone whether to hunt for survival or conquer new territories.

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Bohurupi: Unmasking the Real Thieves

The film Bohurupi unmasks the true thieves in our society entertains with satire, gold old folksy music and tremendous acting.

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Lost and Found : Anita Desai’s Rosarita

This essay is not just about Desai's latest offering, but an assessment of her works. She is someone whom Salman Rushdie calls, "a magnificent writer."

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Partition and the Vernacular

The refugee has always been the subject of jokes. This joke did the rounds during partition and even to this day in Bengal.

Impressions of Claude Monet’s Giverny

So what if you do not get to see an original Claude Monet in his maison at a small French village called Giverny. It is

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Gaudi, Paella and A Little Bit of Messi Sums Up Barcelona

The train from Paris to Béziers in the south of France continues to Barcelona on a two-hour journey.

Travel: All Set for Sète in the South of France

Sète is a small commune but quite popular as a seaside resort. The first sights as we drive into the city are of the color

Travel to Béziers France
Travel: Indian Summer in Béziers, France

The architecture is predominantly Roman; understandably, as the location was on the road that linked Provence with Iberia. The moors also set their footprints during

Female gaze in Indian cinema
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Lust Stories 2 and the Male-Female Gaze

“The ‘male gaze’ is a theory propounded by Laura Mulvey. There is no ‘female gaze’ as such because both men and women are equally capable

Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen: Centenary Tribute

Sen’s heroines, especially in his later films are everyday workers who could well be typists and saleswomen who came out in droves after partition, gradually

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Troilokya Devi: The Femme Fatale of Calcutta

The second city of the Empire was ever growing, more and more people were moving into it for opportunities not only from overseas but from

Toru Dutt Life and Works
Toru Dutt: A Pioneer of Indo-Anglian Writing

Toru Dutt with her sister Oru (brother Abuj had already succumbed to tuberculosis at a very early age) along with their parents travelled to France.