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Protarona A Bengali Adaptation Of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal By Mukhomukhi

"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 UNSUNG HERO

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.

The blight on the human heart

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.”

‘Homoeopathy has the power to heal certain diseases holistically’

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.