When I was still a school goer, there was a shop near Lake Market called Epic. It was renowned for its collection of used books.
The book fair has gained immense popularity and success over the years. Book fairs are not only held in Kolkata but all across the country and globe as well.
The ‘Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan’ mentions a civil servant called Ramgati Bandyopadhyay who worked with Herschel in Hooghly for the collection of fingerprints, but Herschel does not mention him.
It has become a legend that sometimes these library books, once issued, were never returned. Instead, they began to adorn private bookshelves.
And over the years while people continued to savour the flavour of olden days with these traditional Christmas goodies, the closest one got to experiencing quintessential ballroom dances were at dance nights hosted at some of the premium city clubs, like The Dalhousie Institute and The Grail Club.
Supriya writes about her time growing in North Calcutta in a business Marwari family, with all its quiddities and typical cadences, but her experience is so universal that one can recognize the phenomenon as one’s own.
This is when we came out of Rabindra Sadan (an auditorium that screens festival films) mute, blown away by Vittorio de Sica’s Umberto D, the haltingly affecting Tokyo Story by Yasujirō Ozu, Zhang Yimou’s pensive rendition of pathos in Coming Home, the ultra-wide frames of Eduardo Nunes’s Sudoste, or Kim Ki Duk’s powerful anti-narrative Time.
Debjani took her designs one step further, with her Frida Kahlo and Starry Night sarees– the latest offerings from Debjani’s stable.
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