He lived in a modest commune in Andheri. As a party member Kaifi earned a monthly stipend of Rs 40 which bore the expenses of
Nabaneeta Dev Sen would have turned 83 today. Her granddaughter Hiyamon has penned a fitting intimate tribute to the great literateur in a few soulful
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
But no such thing with Kapil Dev. He doesn’t have to weigh his words before opening his mouth. Because, he doesn’t need to speak English.
The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach) has also been working diligently on paper conservation. Some of the techniques used at most
In his book titled, The Power of Letting Go: How to Drop Everything That’s Holding You Back, the author John Purkiss writes about an array
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
Tagore went forth, establishing the greatness and glory of music and dance. He invited many great gurus to come and teach at his institute and
Visva-Bharati is the creation of a poet and artist’s imagination. Rabindranath himself called it ‘a poet’s school’, and he virtually thought of Visva-Bharati as a
I would often wander through the open front door and stand in the hollow rooms and gaze at the stains on the whitewashed walls where
As I entered RP Gupta’s flat, I faced a slender man in a half-sleeved white vest and white pajamas, rocking in a chair, with books
Globalization has triggered the emergence of a synthetic macro-culture. This synthetic macro-culture is silently engineering the gradual attrition of tribal/ folk art and culture.
During World War I the U.S. government encouraged people to fight food shortage by planting a Liberty Garden and gardening helped jobless people survive the
Reboti Bhusan was the most prolific cartoonist, illustrator and caricaturist Bengal has ever produced.
If the partition and the abolition of the princely purse and zamindari system broke the backbone of the Bengali community in the Darjeeling hills, the
To begin with, let us embrace the most fundamental query in our context. “What is Mathematics”, after all? Unsurprisingly, this has been asked many times
