As you so perfectly captured in your stories, my life has turned a page. It’s with a quiet acceptance, mirroring the strength of your characters,
Ranen Ayan Dutt, an eminent painter and illustrator, who had paintings, murals, graphics and architecture to his credit, breathed his last on 3.3.24, Sunday, night.
Kundera’s criticism of the Soviet invasion led to the banning of his books in the country. Subsequently, he was expelled from the communist party again
It was September of 1977. This forty-five-year-old memory is as fresh in my mind as if it happened last month. Indeed, do I remember what
This humaneness spread across his characters where almost all the protagonists were not only ordinary men and women but also either failures in life or
In the 1980s, he had done a series called Anti-Burqa from which a mother-daughter portrait made it to the cover of Desh, the prestigious Bengali
Neil Nongkynrih was an unusual man. He passed away quietly early this month, on 5th January at the relatively young age of 51, rendering his
Pt. Birju Maharaj has given a new dimension to Kathak, by experimenting with his technique in the application of dance dramas, which has today become
Kamla became a feminist icon who communicated her philosophy through her personal story.
When Surekha Sikri won the National Award for her performance in Badhai Ho (2018), she was 73 and wheelchair bound. A brain stroke had affected
As he worked his way up the ladder of success, he continued to hone his skills as an actor. His ability to get under the
Magician Uday Shankar, who regaled people of Calcutta with his Magic Scope, passed away peacefully in his sleep on 24th June, 2021. He was the
Swatilekha seemed to have finally found her metier in Shanu Roy Chowdhury. This one-woman performance was inspired by and adapted from a Willy Russell play
A teacher and a researcher par excellence, Shankha babu was a naturally gifted orator. But he was comfortable in his classrooms – among his students.
he was widely respected among his students and the literary fraternity of Kolkata and Bangladesh. He was also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award,
The demise of veteran actor, Christopher Plummer, took me back many years when I was a little girl growing up in the hill station of
