Magician Uday Shankar, who regaled people of Calcutta with his Magic Scope, passed away peacefully in his sleep on 24th June, 2021. He was the
With the world fascinated with the rain, it doesn’t come as a surprise that rain has been romanced in literature and is often used to
But nights are more often associated with fear of the evil powers, lurking both within and without. The fear of the unknown – an existential
I soon discovered a new, exciting world, as RP and Basanta-da poured their knowledge over me. I hardly understood then how fortunate I was when
Swatilekha seemed to have finally found her metier in Shanu Roy Chowdhury. This one-woman performance was inspired by and adapted from a Willy Russell play
Mamata Banerjee who was born in 1955 was in her late-teens – the most impressionable age – when Maa Mati Manush premiered.
In 2008 the Maharashtra government passed a plan of training 100 tribal women for the position of flight attendants. The entire plan ended with only
Evenings are times of reverie and intense self-introspection. Another day slowly and surely fades into the horizon.
In the moments of dilemma, the instants of uncertainty a man would stick the adventurer little finger up the nostril...
15-year-old Jyoti Kumari cycled from Delhi to Bihar with her injured father during the lockdown last year and became an international icon.
His short stories, essentially written for a young adult audience, would be a good starting point for such explorations. These stories share many common themes.
This poem, written during mid-December 1931 to mid-January 1932, transcends space and time, and hence, is relevant universally for all ages.
As the overhead sun reaches its zenith, the afternoons grow sultry and hot with the passage of seasons. During summers, it is unbearable while in
I was introduced to the character of James Bond 007, the suave spy in a sharply tailored dark suit, through the novel by English author
For writers, historic events have a profound impact on their compositions.
As many as 1200 Nazrul song compositions recorded and/composed by Nazrul between 1925 and 1950 have been restored by this young archivist.
