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
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,
I have had the opportunity to be with him on stage with the Tanpura. He was not only my musical Guru, he was my idol.
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
Besides the growing body of feminist historiography, documentaries, such as The Saroj Khan Story (d. Nidhi Tulli, 2012) and the fictional story about the struggles
This is when we came out of Rabindra Sadan (an auditorium that screens festival films) mute, blown away by Vittorio de Sica’s Umberto D, the
I became convinced that as much as I loved to weave on a loom, I loved to get my hands dirty with dyes and paints
Rabindranath’s brilliance lies in incorporating elements of Indian classical music to his own compositions. Sometimes he used a single Raga throughout the song.
India’s reciprocal tribute to the Irish poet, at least in the form of a bust at some significant location, is still waiting.
Tagore's paintings are the art of infinite probabilities, born out of an unplanned journey of a decade.
The key to Rabindranath’s mystery lies in the realm from where light springs forth out of the heart of darkness transforming everything, every event into
