"In the dictionary of psychology, adultery is neither a sin nor a sacred act. It is more a matter of the body than of the heart. It is first and last, a satisfaction of the sexual urge. Sexual fidelity is not the same as love. An adulterer may be as genuinely in love with his/her spouseas is his counterpart" says Dr. Mahesh Gandhi, psychiatrist, Lokmanya Tilak Hospital, Bombay.
The title of this essay is meant to be an ironic pun. All Bengalis of my era have listened to, loved and sung songs written by him.
A huge, soft bed placed in the centre of the gallery. People slowly walked up to it and then sat down beside strangers.
Veteran actor Anupam Kher has praised the rise of regional cinema in India, highlighting how films from Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Bengali industries are bringing the country’s stories back to the forefront.
This year marked a momentous occasion for the Bengali and Indian-American community in Houston as Houston Durgabari celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Durga Puja, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the first Durga Puja ever held in Houston, dating back to 1975.
The film marks her comeback to Bengali films.
A Bengali rights body has written to President Droupadi Murmu drawing her attention to the complaints of sexual assault against the state Governor.
Rousseau writes in The Social Contract, “The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.”
He is a familiar face on Bengali television and has acted in a number of popular daily soaps over the past decades. But many don’t know that Dr Bikash Bhowmik is also a successful and sought-after homoeopathic doctor who spends his one off-day attending to patients who come from far and wide in his chamber in Kolkata.
Poila Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year was observed across the state with great enthusiasm. The day is also observed as the foundation day of Bengal.
