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- [Editorial](https://thespace.ink/anthology/metropolis-musings/metropolis-musings-anecdotal-cityscapes-editorial/): Towns, cities and metropoles tend to become integral parts of the people who inhabit them.
- [Two Poems – Emily Dickinson](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classics/two-poems-by-emily-dickinson/): Two Poems by renowned 19th century American poet -- Emily Dickinson.
- [Se7en: A Sermon in Blood and Rain](https://thespace.ink/reviews/se7en-a-sermon-in-blood-and-rain-film-review/): David Fincher's Se7en explores sin, justice, morality, and despair through two detectives pursuing a chilling serial killer in a decaying metropolis.
- [Bengal Sketches – From Çay Keyfi to Colonies: A Very Serious History of Not-So-Serious Tea](https://thespace.ink/essays/tea-hihstory-of-bengal-by-dr-maqbul-jamil/): Tea is more than a drink. Its journey spans culture, commerce, colonialism, revolution, science, and centuries of fascinating historical drama.
- [Children’s Home: Where You’re Not Supposed to Leave Your Heart (Part 2)](https://thespace.ink/essays/childrens-home-in-japan-mayumi-yamamoto-2/): A place that must never be romanticised with nostalgia. That was why deep bonds were forbidden. Attachment was dangerous.
- [Children’s Home: Where You’re Not Supposed to Leave Your Heart (Part 1)](https://thespace.ink/essays/childrens-home-in-japan-mayumi-yamamoto-1/): She loves to draw, but she never kept her work. Her pictures drifted through the room like fallen leaves, mixed with abandon among school notices and worksheets.
- [Ripped Jeans, Silent Screams](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/ripped-jeans-silent-screams-photostory/): This collection transcends traditional photography, presenting instead a "Promptographic" oeuvre.
- [Bengal Sketches – Johann Zoffany: The Last Supper in Kolkata](https://thespace.ink/essays/johann-zoffany-the-last-supper-in-kolkata/): Wishing, at least officially, to leave a humble gift, he offered the church a monumental 10-by-12-foot painting of The Last Supper, free of charge.
- [Neil Armstrong: Birthday Tribute](https://thespace.ink/videos/neil-armstrong-astronaut-birthday-tribute/): That single step wasn't just about reaching the Moon—it proved that human curiosity and determination can achieve what once seemed impossible.
- [Two Friends](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/story-two-friends-by-guy-de-maupassant/): Two Friends is a short story by French author Guy de Maupassant. Originally published in 1882, it is set in Paris during the Franco-Prussian war.
- [Two Poems: Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/poems-by-percy-bysshe-shelley/): He was considered a spontaneous and radical poet in his lifetime and is remembered for his lyrical poetry.
- [When Justice Feels Too Slow: Why More People Are Accepting Encounter Killings and Mob Lynching](https://thespace.ink/essays/justice-encounter-killings-and-mob-lynching/): A justice system that delivers timely verdicts, protects the rights of victims and holds offenders accountable leaves far less room for demands for instant justice.
- [Fragments of Life](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/fragments-of-life-photos-by-debrani-das/): Abstract images become a quiet journey of self-discovery, inviting reflection on existence, memory, and the fragile connections that shape our inner world.
- [Two Poems: Emily Bronte](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classic-poems-by-emily-bronte/): Poems by Victorian author Emily Bronte. Emily wrote poems under the pen name Ellis Bell.
- [Bengal Sketches – Shantiniketan: Where the Soul Attends Class](https://thespace.ink/essays/shantiniketan-where-the-soul-attends-class/): Tagore struggled to sustain Visva Bharati, traveling worldwide to lecture, perform, and raise funds, even risking ruin rather than compromising his dream.
- [The Necklace (Part 2)](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classics/the-necklace-part-classic-2/): The Necklace explores vanity, ambition, illusion, and sacrifice, revealing how pride, appearances, and an unexpected twist can transform ordinary lives forever.
- [The Necklace (Part 1)](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classics/the-necklace-by-maupassant-1/): The Necklace explores vanity, ambition, illusion, and sacrifice, revealing how pride, appearances, and an unexpected twist can transform ordinary lives forever.
- [Eloquence of the Eye](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/eloquence-of-the-eye-by-nilanjan-ray/): The Eye speaks of things we dare not say. Not only our soul, but our mind reflects through the eyes.
- [Pune – A Memory Lost & Found](https://thespace.ink/travel/pune-a-memory-lost-found-by-prateeti-sengupta/): She is frozen in the act of decapitating the most powerful and evil Asura of them all, as far as Indian mythology goes.
- [Bengal Sketches – The Mountain of Precious Value: Whispers of Murshidabad’s Lost King](https://thespace.ink/essays/bengal-sketch-kohitur-mango-of-murshidabad/): To speak of the Kohitur is to reach back into an era that refuses to align with our fast-paced present.
- [Kalimpong on a Plate: Where the Himalayas Meet Your Appetite](https://thespace.ink/lifestyle/food/kalimpong-the-himalayas-meet-appetite/): Tucked in North Bengal’s misty hills, Kalimpong’s food tells a story of crossroads. This isn’t just one cuisine - it’s a conversation between cultures.
- [The Last Leaf](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classics/the-last-leaf-by-o-henry/): The story portrays sacrifice, hope, friendship, and artistic devotion through Behrman’s masterpiece that saves Johnsy’s life.
- [Bali and the Business of Paradise: Part 2](https://thespace.ink/travel/bali-and-the-business-of-paradise-part-2/): Beyond spirituality, Bali excels in the art of slow living. The absence of noise pollution is striking. Villages remain remarkably clean.
- [Beyond Jagannath: Rajbalhat’s Unique Rath Yatra](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/beyond-jagannath-rajbalhats-rath-yatra/): Rajbalhat's Rath Yatra is a living expression of Bengal's rural heritage, where faith is preserved through music, tradition and human connection.
- [Bengal Sketches – When the Rains Remember: Monsoon, Longing, and the Soul of Bengal](https://thespace.ink/essays/monsoon-longing-and-the-soul-of-bengal-19/): An exploration of how Bengal's monsoon inspired centuries of poetry, where rain became the enduring language of longing, memory, love, and devotion.
- [Hope](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/young-minds/hope-by-anushka-ghosh/): It knocks at our doors and waits outside our windows while we pick at our skin and pull out our hair wondering why we feel hopeless.
- [The Sovereign Paradox: Part 4](https://thespace.ink/travel/vatican-museum-the-sovereign-paradox-part-4/): Leonardo's observation—not just men, but the workings of the minds of men—their admirations, as well as their rivalries, all were frozen into fresco for eternity.
- [Bali and the Business of Paradise: Part 1](https://thespace.ink/travel/bali-and-the-business-of-paradise-travelogue/): Bali is among the most famous islands in Indonesia's sprawling archipelago of more than seventeen thousand islands.
- [Where Every Ball Has a Story](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/where-every-ball-has-a-story-photostory/): The National Football Museum is not merely preserving the history of football, it is preserving the heartbeat of the beautiful game.
- [Bengal Sketches – Shyama Prasad Mookherjee: Nationalist, Institution Builder, and a Man of Contradictions](https://thespace.ink/essays/shyama-prasad-mookherjee-man-of-contradictions/): Shyama Prasad Mookherjee was a complex nationalist, institution builder, and pragmatic administrator whose role in India's freedom struggle remains debated and reassessed.
- [The Way of Some Flesh](https://thespace.ink/reviews/books/review-of-david-szalays-novel-flesh/): A review of David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning novel Flesh, exploring sex, chance, work, emotional detachment, guilt, desire, and life's randomness.
- [The Sovereign Paradox: Part 3](https://thespace.ink/travel/vatican-museum-the-sovereign-paradox-part-3/): A journey through the Vatican Museums, exploring five centuries of art, faith, power, and history, from ancient Egypt to Renaissance masterpieces.
- [Jackals and Arabs](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classics/jackals-and-arabs-franz-kafka/): A traveler encounters jackals who beg him to end their ancient conflict with Arabs, revealing prejudice, obsession, and futility.
- [Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Birthday Tribute](https://thespace.ink/videos/adoor-gopalakrishnan-birthday-tribute-reel/): Adoor Gopalakrishnan pioneered Malayalam New Wave cinema, directing 12 feature films portraying Kerala's society, culture, and human experiences across decades.
- [The City of My Heart](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/the-city-of-my-heart-bhaskar-kundu/): These photographs do not seek spectacle; instead, they linger on gestures, glances, pauses, and fleeting moments where life reveals itself without performance.
- [Bengal Sketches – Boston Dumped Tea: Bengal Paid the Price](https://thespace.ink/essays/boston-dumped-tea-bengal-paid-the-price-17/): Yet the story celebrated on Boston’s waterfront did not begin in Boston. Its roots reach thousands of miles away, across oceans, to Bengal.
- [She Died of Sadness. I Refuse To.](https://thespace.ink/voices-views/scribbles/obituary-for-marjane-satrapi/): Persepolis is not a book about a country that is only darkness. It is a book about a family that refused to be only darkness.
- [The Accidental Statistician Who Became the Father of Statistics of Modern India](https://thespace.ink/essays/prasanta-chandra-mahalanobis-the-statistician/): To honor his memory, his birthday, 29th June, is celebrated annually across the country as National Statistics Day.
- [Helen Keller: Birthday Tribute](https://thespace.ink/videos/helen-keller-birthday-tribute-video/): She became the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. Helen Keller showed the world that disability doesn’t define a person’s potential.
- [The Cloud](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/the-cloud-poem-percy-bysshe-shelley/): The Cloud celebrates nature's eternal cycle, portraying a cloud as an immortal force of transformation, renewal, beauty, and boundless imaginative power.
- [FIFA World Cup Artwork in Kolkata](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/fifa-world-cup-artwork-in-kolkata-photos/): Though India has never played in the FIFA World Cup, Kolkata's passionate fans transform streets into vibrant football art galleries.
- [Bengal Sketches – From Bande to Vande and Back Again](https://thespace.ink/essays/vande-mataram-from-bande-to-vande-back-again/): Over time, Bande Mataram became the war cry of Bengali revolutionaries.
- [The Sovereign Paradox: Part 2](https://thespace.ink/travel/vatican-city-the-sovereign-paradox-part-2/): The Vatican’s immense wealth, art, and power rest upon a poor fisherman’s bones—an empire built to preserve dust.
- [Prague Flowers After Communism](https://thespace.ink/essays/prague-flowers-after-communism-by-pijus-ash/): Perhaps every generation deserves the right to ignore history for a while until history suddenly knocks again.
- [Maiden Melancholy](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/maiden-melancholy-rainer-maria-rilke/): "Maiden Melancholy" portrays a maiden's lingering sorrow after a fleeting encounter, exploring memory, longing, loss, and idealized love.
- [The Truth in the Shadows: Revisiting The X-Files](https://thespace.ink/reviews/truth-in-the-shadows-revisiting-the-x-files/): The X-Files explores truth, conspiracy, aliens, and human darkness through belief and skepticism, creating a timeless mystery saga.
- [Through the Mirror](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/photos-through-the-mirror-by-raj-sarkar/): In reflection, the world becomes something else entirely. The real drifts toward the surreal; clarity gives way to ambiguity.
- [Bengal Sketches – How One Man Turned a Medieval Mess into Brand Bengal](https://thespace.ink/essays/a-man-turned-a-medieval-mess-into-brand-bengal/): Ilyas Shah was more than a Sultan. He was Bengal's first famous brand architect. He took a medieval mess and turned it into Brand Bengal.
- [The Sovereign Paradox: Part 1](https://thespace.ink/travel/vatican-city-the-sovereign-paradox-part-1/): This is the smallest sovereign state on Earth, barely half a square kilometre in size, commanding the loyalty of over a billion people.
- [Poem: The Moon](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/poetry/poem-the-moon-alexander-pushkin/): Alexander Pushkin's poem "The Moon" is a poignant, melancholic lyric he penned around 1816. It beautifully captures themes of lingering romantic sorrow and the agonizing persistence of memory.
- [W.B. Yeats’ Introduction to Tagore’s ‘Gitanjali’](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classics/w-b-yeats-tagores-gitanjali/): On 7 July 1912, Rabindranath Tagore met W.B. Yeats in London, beginning a friendship that helped introduce Gitanjali to the West.
- [I Write, Therefore We Exist: Anne Frank and the Architecture of Rebellion](https://thespace.ink/essays/anne-frank-and-the-architecture-of-rebellion/): The Nazis succeeded in killing Anne Frank. They failed to silence her. Today, her diary has been translated into more than seventy languages.
- [The Foothill Footage: Part 3](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/the-foothill-footage-part-3/): The misty morning slowly shed its magical veil, revealing nature’s fresh splendour and unveiling the celestial beauty of an enchanting world.
- [Bengal Sketches – How a River, a Civilization, and a Bengali Reformer Named a Religion](https://thespace.ink/essays/river-civilization-bengali-reformer-religion/): Through the Bengal Renaissance and reform movements centered in Calcutta, Bengali thinkers gave modern shape and identity to Hinduism.
- [Another English Game in a Changed World](https://thespace.ink/essays/another-english-game-in-a-changed-world/): As the 2026 World Cup approaches, football's enduring appeal intersects with global conflict, nostalgia, politics, memory, and changing times.
- [Saving The Blues](https://thespace.ink/essays/saving-the-blues-word-ocean-day-alokmay-datta/): Our planet looks beautifully blue from space due to oceans. World Ocean Day calls out to us to preserve the health of this beauty.
- [Alexander Pushkin: The King of Spades](https://thespace.ink/videos/alexander-pushkin-the-king-of-spades-tribute/): He taught Russians how to sound like themselves. He lived fast, died young, and left behind work so good that even his enemies quoted him.
- [Ballad of the Moon Moon](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/classics/ballad-of-the-moon-moon-lorca/): A haunting ballad where the moon lures a child toward death, blending folklore, innocence, beauty, fate, and tragic mystery.
- [Free School Under The Bridge](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/free-school-under-the-bridge-photography/): The school now has around 75 students (boys in the morning, girls in the afternoon) learning everything - from Mathematics to History.
- [The Foothill Footage: Part 2](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/the-foothill-footage-part-2/): Cha-Bari was quite an exceptional place which was singular and adoring due to its unruffled and tranquil atmosphere, particularly during our stay.
- [Bengal Sketches – A Buddhist Stronghold a Millennium Ago](https://thespace.ink/essays/buddhist-stronghold-a-millennium-ago-in-bengal/): A millennium ago, Bengal flourished as a major Buddhist center, blending tantra, mysticism, poetry, and spirituality into its enduring culture.
- [Poem: Seven Minutes After Death](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/poem-seven-minutes-after-death/): A dying boy relives tender childhood memories amid war and hunger, hoping his starving brother survives by taking the food he gathered.
- [The Hollywood Misfit: A Centenary Tribute to Marilyn Monroe](https://thespace.ink/reviews/films-and-plays/tribute-to-marilyn-monroe/): A tribute to Marilyn Monroe through The Misfits, exploring fame, vulnerability, loneliness, broken relationships, and Hollywood’s tragic illusions.
- [Everest Expedition: When Fairy Tales Become History](https://thespace.ink/travel/everest-expedition-fairy-tales-become-history/): Debasish Biswas recounts his 2010 Everest expedition, overcoming challenges, conquering the summit, and creating Bengal’s historic civilian mountaineering achievement.
- [The Foothill Footage: Part 1](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/the-foothill-footage-story-part-1/): A hill journey began chaotically with exchanged luggage, a missing driver, reckless travel, and finally ended peacefully amid tea gardens.
- [Bengal Sketches – Dye Hard Indigo Edition](https://thespace.ink/essays/indigo-revolution-dye-hard-indigo-edition-12/): A dye that initially colored fabric ultimately left its mark on history itself, while simultaneously embodying a persistent element of human resilience.
- [Red-Pilled Realities: Mainstreaming of the ‘Manosphere’](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/young-minds/mainstreaming-manosphere/): The manosphere exploits male insecurity, spreading hypermasculine, anti-feminist ideologies online that reshape relationships, normalize misogyny, and influence real-world behaviour.
- [You Can Run but You Can’t Hide: Perils of Social Media](https://thespace.ink/essays/you-can-run-cant-hide-perils-of-social-media/): Social media amplified political division, outrage, and performative activism, eroding empathy, nuance, and Bengal’s once-civil culture of disagreement.
- [Master Mystery Weaver — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle](https://thespace.ink/videos/master-mystery-weaver-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/): Arthur Conan Doyle sought literary immortality, but Sherlock Holmes survived every attempted death, returning endlessly through adaptations, eclipsing his creator forever in history.
- [From Bengal to Bristol: Tracing Raja Rammohan Roy’s Final Days](https://thespace.ink/travel/bengal-to-bristol-tracing-raja-rammohan-roys/): 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.
- [Bengal Sketches – Bargis and the Cosmic Invoice for Unpaid Chauth](https://thespace.ink/essays/bargis-the-cosmic-invoice-for-unpaid-chauth/): Bargi raids devastated eighteenth-century Bengal, inspiring Gangaram’s apocalyptic poem about violence, moral collapse, political legitimacy, famine, and collective trauma.
- [Sweets with a Twist](https://thespace.ink/lifestyle/sweets-with-a-twist-by-surela-chakraborty/): Traditional Bengali and continental desserts blend nostalgia, comfort, and indulgence, transforming simple homemade sweets into festive culinary celebrations for everyone.
- [A Musical Kaleidoscope](https://thespace.ink/essays/achille-claude-debussy-a-musical-kaleidoscope/): Claude Debussy transformed western music through impressionistic soundscapes, painting emotions, seas, moonlight and atmosphere with fluid, visionary musical expression and depth.
- [TREES – A sense of Perspective](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/trees-a-sense-of-perspective-nilanjan-ray/): Everything is temporary; people, problems, empires pass. Perspective matters. Like ancient trees enduring centuries, truth outlasts tyranny and constant change.
- [The Eye That Stayed Open: Raghu Rai](https://thespace.ink/essays/the-eye-that-stayed-open-raghu-rai-obituary/): The Magnum archive of his Bhopal project, titled with prosecutorial precision Exposure: Portrait of a Corporate Crime, spans 1984, 2001, and 2002.
- [Bengal Sketches – Bengal’s Wild Bedtime Tales](https://thespace.ink/essays/bengal-sketches-bengals-wild-bedtime-tales/): Bedtime stories are often soft and forgettable, but in Bengal, they were vivid and memorable. They stumbled, soared, frightened, and comforted all at once.
- [Shipra—The Book Is a Collectors’ Item!](https://thespace.ink/voices-views/interviews-voice/shipra-collectors-item/): An exclusive interview with Shipra Bhattacharya brought about quite a few unknown facets of her personality.
- [A Country Without Borders](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/country-without-borders-anushka-ghosh/): Power thrives on division, erasing borders, fueling chaos—yet when the world burns, no walls protect; humanity resists, reclaiming identity and voice.
- [Roberto Rossellini – Neorealist Pioneer](https://thespace.ink/videos/roberto-rossellini-neorealist-pioneer/): His influence on cinema endures, not just through his films, but through his fearless approach to life, art, and truth itself.
- [Hope Springs Eternal](https://thespace.ink/essays/hope-springs-eternal-asha-bhosle-a-tribute/): Asha was a modern Ulysses, whose goal was “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
- [Bengal Sketches – Sansat: Tales of Nearby Lives](https://thespace.ink/essays/bengal-sketches-sansat-tales-of-nearby-lives/): Sansat inspires my journey through Bengal’s history, where poetry, devotion, and spiritual harmony live within my roots and surrounding heritage.
- [The Original Gangster of Playback](https://thespace.ink/essays/asha-bhosle-the-original-gangster-of-playback/): Asha Bhosle, iconic versatile singer, redefined music across genres, languages, and generations, leaving an unmatched legacy of passion, resilience, and timeless voice.
- [War Without Borders: The Moral Machinery of the US–Israel & Iran War (Part 3)](https://thespace.ink/essays/war-moral-machinery-of-us-israel-iran-war-3/): War persists through systems that normalize continuation, diffusing responsibility, shaping narratives, and quietly preparing conditions, justifications, and acceptance for future conflicts.
- [Rhythms of the Soil](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/rhythms-of-the-soil-bikot-kali-ma-puja/): A world where the mask not hide truth but reveals a deeper spiritual reality flourishing under Goddess Dapot Kali Ma.
- [Bengal Sketches – Mystics, Metaphors and Margins: Notes from Bengal’s First Poetic subculture](https://thespace.ink/essays/bengal-sketch-the-charyapada/): For centuries, the Charyapada remained a mere whisper in history, remembered only by scholars and monks but lost as tangible cultural artifacts.
- [Timeless Heartbeat – Ustad Alla Rakha](https://thespace.ink/videos/timeless-heartbeat-ustad-alla-rakha-tribute/): In his teens, Alla Rakha lost his singing voice for months; frustrated and restless, he turned to the tabla.
- [Rainfall](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/poetry/rainfall-by-souvik-chakraborty/): First rain revives the city; alone, I drown in memory, regret, and loss - love gone, silence remains, hope fades in endless night.
- [War Without Borders: The Moral Machinery of the US–Israel & Iran War (Part 2)](https://thespace.ink/essays/war-moral-machinery-of-us-israel-iran-war-2/): War persists by diffusing responsibility, unevenly distributing costs, amplifying internal fractures, and making interruption politically costlier than continuation for all actors involved.
- [“Eye” Love You](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/eye-love-you-photography-by-deb-lahiri/): Across visual art, the eye reveals emotion and truth; in street photography, fleeting glances capture honest human connection and meaning.
- [The Bridge](https://thespace.ink/fiction-poetry/the-bridge-story-by-koushik-dasgupta/): In a small town, violence breaks bonds, but compassion restores humanity as two boys rebuild friendship across hatred, like a fragile bridge.
- [Bengal Sketches – From Panipat to Paratha: A Very Persistent Past](https://thespace.ink/essays/mughal-empire-legacy-from-panipat-to-paratha/): Mughal legacy reflects cultural exchange, shaping cuisine, architecture, language, and identity, urging plural understanding beyond politics and historical biases.
- [The Clinking of Twin Glasses ](https://thespace.ink/essays/the-clinking-of-twin-glasses-asha-bhosle/): She was the Helen of Dance of Bollywood, which in our growing years attracted us more.
- [War Without Borders: The Moral Machinery of the US–Israel & Iran War (Part 1)](https://thespace.ink/essays/war-moral-machinery-of-the-us-israel-iran-war/): Moral language once unified war aims; now fragmented motives, institutional processes, and conflicting pressures blur purpose, shifting costs onto uninvolved global populations.
- [Echoes Along the Shoreline](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/echoes-along-the-shoreline-photo-story/): Tides paint fleeting stories on sand - gentle, fierce, human and natural - captured in golden light along Mandarmoni and Talsari shores.
- [Review of The Loneliness of Sunny and Sonia by Kiran Desai](https://thespace.ink/reviews/books/the-loneliness-of-sunny-and-sonia/): Desai rightly characterizes Salman Rushdie as an Orientalist, but in her own case, magic is not a substitute for realistic depiction.
- [Bengal Sketches – Chronicles of the Bengali Calendar: From Star Charts to Tax Nightmares (and Everything in Between)](https://thespace.ink/essays/chronicles-of-the-bengali-calendar-6/): The Bengali calendar evolved from astronomy and empire, aligning time with agriculture, culture, and festivals, remaining vital despite modern systems.
- [Memories of Poila Boisakh](https://thespace.ink/lifestyle/memories-of-poila-boisakh-arundhati-gupta/): Some historians trace the Bengali calendar to King Shashanka, who is believed to have introduced the Bengali era around 594 AD.
- [Thingyan and Poila Boishak in Myanmar](https://thespace.ink/essays/thingyan-and-poila-boishak-in-myanmar/): Thingyan festival, the famous water festival of Myanmar, celebrated to usher in their New Year, which coincides with our Bengali Poila Boishak.
- [Gajan – Echoes of Faith](https://thespace.ink/photo-story/gajan-echoes-of-faith-by-nilotpal-saha/): Celebrated at the end of the Bengali year in West Bengal during Chaitra, it culminates on Chaitra Sankranti—the final threshold between ending and renewal.
- [Babi Guling and Other Tales from the Balinese Table](https://thespace.ink/lifestyle/babi-guling-balinese-food-samya-sengupta/): And here’s the thing about Bali — I have never seen an angry face here. Not this time, not the last. Everything feels gently enchanted. That quiet magic seems to seep into the food too.
- [Bengal Sketches – Chandrabati: Bengal’s First Woman Poet Who Reclaimed the Ramayana](https://thespace.ink/essays/chandrabati-bengals-first-woman-poet-5/): Her Sitayana stands out for presenting the Ramayana from a woman’s perspective, giving voice to Sita and upending a well-known story.

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