Nil Darpan News Today

The Blue or Indigo Mutiny of 1861, was an outpouring of anger by Indian peasants coerced into cultivating the unprofitable indigo crop by British planters.

‘Academy’, as many of us know, is a word that comes from the French word ‘academie’, evolving from Latin ‘academia’—the ultimate ancestor of both being Greek ‘akademeia’.

The Apple Arcade February update isn't far away, and will be adding yet more titles to play as well as a wealth of updates for classics.

The report in ‘Hindu Patriot’ underscored the global impact of Nil Darpan, a play written in Bangla depicting the plight of indigo cultivators and the upsurge across Bengal against East India Company officials.

Librarians in West Bengal say approximately 50 per cent of the libraries in the state are fully or partly closed. 

It still remains a mystery if it was Michael Madhusudan Dutt who actually translated the play in English on Rev. James Long’s request

‘Nil Chhaya' connects the Indigo Revolt to the oppressions faced by present day garment factory workers in Bangladesh.

“Do you ever feel that there is something inside you? Something ancient, that will come out one day?” -- Naila Azad Nupur asks this exact question in “Indigo Giant”, her brilliant rendition of the story written by Dinabandhu Mitra in his epic play, “Nil Darpan”. The play, written by Ben Musgrave and translated by Leesa Gazi, was staged at the Bangladesh Mahila Samity’s Nilima

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

Partition impacted Dhaka book trade: With the expansion of the publishing business, bookshops also sprang up in various parts of Old Dhaka, particularly in Chawkbazar, Islampur, Mughaltuli and Patuatuli. It is estimated that the number of bookshops in Dhaka till 1900 were no less than 40.