Debasish Biswas recounts his 2010 Everest expedition, overcoming challenges, conquering the summit, and creating Bengal’s historic civilian mountaineering achievement.
A hill journey began chaotically with exchanged luggage, a missing driver, reckless travel, and finally ended peacefully amid tea gardens.
A dye that initially colored fabric ultimately left its mark on history itself, while simultaneously embodying a persistent element of human resilience.
The manosphere exploits male insecurity, spreading hypermasculine, anti-feminist ideologies online that reshape relationships, normalize misogyny, and influence real-world behaviour.
Social media amplified political division, outrage, and performative activism, eroding empathy, nuance, and Bengal’s once-civil culture of disagreement.
Arthur Conan Doyle sought literary immortality, but Sherlock Holmes survived every attempted death, returning endlessly through adaptations, eclipsing his creator forever in history.
Roy died in a foreign land, away from the Ganges, away from Bengal, away from the people for whom he had struggled all his life.
Bargi raids devastated eighteenth-century Bengal, inspiring Gangaram’s apocalyptic poem about violence, moral collapse, political legitimacy, famine, and collective trauma.
Traditional Bengali and continental desserts blend nostalgia, comfort, and indulgence, transforming simple homemade sweets into festive culinary celebrations for everyone.
Claude Debussy transformed western music through impressionistic soundscapes, painting emotions, seas, moonlight and atmosphere with fluid, visionary musical expression and depth.
Everything is temporary; people, problems, empires pass. Perspective matters. Like ancient trees enduring centuries, truth outlasts tyranny and constant change.
The Magnum archive of his Bhopal project, titled with prosecutorial precision Exposure: Portrait of a Corporate Crime, spans 1984, 2001, and 2002.
