Where Food Meets Fellowship: Inside Kolkata’s Boishakhi Adda
More than a showcase of food, the afternoon felt like an attempt to recreate something familiar: the easy warmth of people gathering with no particular hurry to leave.
More than a showcase of food, the afternoon felt like an attempt to recreate something familiar: the easy warmth of people gathering with no particular hurry to leave.
To understand the neurodiversity paradox, one must look past the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5 and peer into our evolutionary history.
Organized by Little Thespian, founded in 1994 by Uma Jhunjhunwala and S.M. Azhar Alam, the festival continues their commitment to theatre as both art and education.
By stripping away visual excess, Dr. Sinha invites viewers to engage more deeply with the artwork. The absence of colour shifts the focus from appearance to essence, compelling the audience to interpret rather than simply observe.
As board results approach, it is easy to believe that everything depends on a number, a college, or a decision made at eighteen. But perhaps, that belief itself needs to be questioned.
The event was graced by the presence of dance exponents Padma Bhushan Dr. Raja Reddy, Padma Bhushan Dr. Radha Reddy, and Dr. Sachchidanand Joshi (Member Secretary, IGNCA).
Colourful processions showcasing rich and traditional tribal culture, community prayers and public meetings were organised at a number of places in the state under the banner of the Indigenous Faith and Culture Society of Arunachal Pradesh (IFCSAP) to mark the occasion.
Basanti has the credit of training over 1,200 women from poor families in stitching in the last one decade. Among them, 200 girls have become entrepreneurs and run their own independent business enterprises.
The fact that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Rishi Aurobindo, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Bidhan Chandra Roy were among the prominent national figures who were arrested and kept here adds to the significance of the place. The museum tells moving stories of the Indian freedom fighters.
The nuanced layers of this pertinent question are creatively articulated by an Avantgrade fiction writer of Urdu, Khalid Javed, in his novel Nemat Khana (The Paradise of Food), which bagged the prestigious JCB award for literature recently.
