Bengal Renaissance

Memories of a very special friendship

He was a simple, straightforward person who wore his fame lightly without the slightest snobbery, he didn’t know what pomposity is. Although I knew him slightly, I came to know him rather closely when he readily agreed to release my first book in Bengali, Sristi O Kristi. There was an instant chemistry.

# Opinion

Vidyasagar attacked

Suffice it to register that the party president, Amit Shah, who was on a visit to the city during the wrap-up motions of the election, ought to have reined in his thoroughly unruly cadres as the grandstanding of the roadshow wound its way through the city.