Suman Kalyanpur (1937-2026): A Serene, Enchanting Star in the Sky of Melody
Today, the world of music feels a little more silent. A gentle, lucid and humble voice has fallen quiet forever.
Today, the world of music feels a little more silent. A gentle, lucid and humble voice has fallen quiet forever.
Some deaths arrive as news. This one arrived as silence, in the exact place where a voice used to live.
We are living in the golden age of authorship. Everyone is now a writer. We are writing bios, poems, how-to guides, and, of course, aggressive complaints against whomever we wish to.
There are those who love to be photographed. You can find them “photo bombing” frames where they have no business to be in. But they are there, smiling sheepishly.
A friend had invited me for dinner to his house. I went over around 7:30 in the evening. We gossiped for about an hour and then sat down for dinner.
Ghatashraddha or The Ritual that came from Kasaravalli's oeuvre has been chosen to play at the Classics Section of the upcoming Venice Film Festival (28 August – 7 September).
The charm of The Umbrella Academy has always been its chaotic brilliance, but season 4 feels off the rails.
If you are a Calcuttan and learnt to write before the onslaught of ballpoint pens, then you must have filled your pen with Sulekha ink at least once. It was a Swadeshi product meant to script defiance to British rule, literally.
In ancient Bengal, Phulia in Nadia district became famous for Krittibas Ojha, who wrote the Ramayana in Bengali. Now, Phulia has hit the headlines because of Biren Kumar Basak, the man behind the weavers' movement in Nadia.
We have reached the border, 77 kilometres from Kolkata, to assess the ground situation at the biggest India-Bangladesh border in Bengal amidst reports, both confirmed and unconfirmed of violence in the villages, towns and cities within Bangladesh.
