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 Gorkhaland movement delivered a body blow.
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, i.e. a country house. It was only after a series of recce in the northern fringes of Calcutta failed that he – in a moment of epiphany – decided to relocate it to Darjeeling.
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 ‘Father of Indian Cinema’– picked up his camera, Hiralal Sen made a series of films
Catches – as they day – win matches and speeches win elections. It is a pity that the Eden Gardens
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