Photostory
The City in the Rain
Kolkata in the rain feels like a different city. Somehow, Kolkata finds a strange kind of peace.
September 4, 2026
Kolkata in the rain feels like a different city. Somehow, Kolkata finds a strange kind of peace.
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy was very prominently displayed followed by Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
Driven by both humanitarian concern and imperial paternalism, officials pursued major social reforms, some addressing practices that Indians themselves increasingly questioned.
In Bengal, the monsoon is as much a season of rain as it is of food.
In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore visited Albert Einstein at his home in Germany. Their conversation soon turned to the nature of reality.
He refused to isolate literature from science, art from lived experience, the individual from society, or national culture from other civilizations.
Humpi is more than a destination- it is an open-air museum where light and shadow transform ancient monuments into living works of art.
His record was extraordinary: ten enemy aircraft in thirteen days, achieved at nineteen in one of the first World War’s deadliest arenas.
After a fatal accident, Amit experiences one final, imagined reunion with Anita, fulfilling his unfinished wish before facing heartbreaking reality.
Albert Claude overcame poverty, war, and limited schooling to become a pioneering cell biologist, transforming our understanding of cellular structure and function.
But it wasn’t just the landscape that was changing. There was a subtler shift in the air too, in the rhythm of life itself.
Your films will remain. Your stories will remain. The Bengal you saw, understood and preserved through your cinema will remain.
