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
Mamata Banerjee who was born in 1955 was in her late-teens – the most impressionable age – when Maa Mati Manush premiered.
Kanchenjunga was not originally set in the hills. Satyajit originally located this in a picnic spot in the outskirts of Calcutta and named it Baganbari,
A teacher and a researcher par excellence, Shankha babu was a naturally gifted orator. But he was comfortable in his classrooms – among his students.
Nabadwip severed almost all ties with top class scholarship over the years. It banks entirely on religion; Gaudiya Vaishnavism to be precise.
Hiralal Sen (1866-1917) was no less a pioneer as far as film-making in the Indian sub-continent goes. Much before Dadasaheb Falke – described as the
Catches – as they day – win matches and speeches win elections. It is a pity that the Eden Gardens did not see a single
