Swayam organized six interactive workshops of about fifty women each for women they work with, from urban and peri-urban communities, could come together in solidarity
On the first day of the month of Chaitra of the Hindu calendar the Hindus of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana celebrate Ugadi or Telugu
He was actually born in Siberia in 1888, but his family came from what would now be Belarus, in what was then imperial Russia. Why
I love interacting with Bengalis in general, though I do miss being present physically at the literary fests in Kolkata. Writing is a lonely process
Though not themed, 183 artists from across India, representing 20 states, had their work displayed at Gem cinema and the CIMA gallery. The works featured
What made Lata Mangeshkar’s live shows a rage with the audience at home & abroad? How did the ‘Lata’ brand survive for nearly eight decades?
In the 1980s, he had done a series called Anti-Burqa from which a mother-daughter portrait made it to the cover of Desh, the prestigious Bengali
Pt. Birju Maharaj has given a new dimension to Kathak, by experimenting with his technique in the application of dance dramas, which has today become
Soumitra started writing poems in his late school days but seriously took to it once in college. Having the likes of Shakti Chattopadhyay and Sunil
Now, he was an associate producer of Indian music for BBC radio programmes, with a mandate to create short episodes introducing Indian music to the
According to Hurwitz, several faculty members and students from the University of Illinois received Rabindranath, Rathindranath, and Pratima Tagore upon their arrival; there were at
Reboti Bhusan was the most prolific cartoonist, illustrator and caricaturist Bengal has ever produced.
The turning point came in 1946 when I attacked an essay penned by noted author Buddhadev Bose in Parichay. The impressed editors, Hiren Mukherjee and
'Two Pieces of Timir' and other poems of Sankha Ghosh translated by Maitreesh Ghatak. A tribute to the late poet.
he was widely respected among his students and the literary fraternity of Kolkata and Bangladesh. He was also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award,
The definition and characteristics of what has been described as ‘Bollywood’ have mutated over the years in terms of the changing industrial practices, digital mediation
