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Bikash Bhattacharjee, Jaya Ganguly, Jogen Chowdhury and Meera Mukherjee’s artworks feature in the second phase of CIMA’s 30th anniversary show ‘12 Masters’

Explore the rich tapestry of river literature, a genre uniquely Bengali, delving into the lives of those intertwined with waterways. Characters, shaped by poverty and natural perils, come alive through dialects and colloquial speech, portraying the distinct lifestyles of men and women in riverine societies. "Char literature" captures the fragility and turbulence of shoals,

A chronicle of 50 path-breaking Hindi films

The Quit India Movement, popularly known as the August Revolution in the history of Indias independence movement, has a very important and complicated period of about three to four years.

Post Satyajit Ray-Ritwik Ghatak-Mrinal Sen in Bengali cinema, Goutam Ghose came closest to being an auteur

Actor Subrat Dutta plays the lead in filmmaker Subrata Sen's upcoming Bengali film 'Samaresh Basur Projapoti', an adaptation of famous Bengali novelist Samaresh Basu's 'Projapoti', which was banned in 1967 due to "obscenity". Ahead of the film's July 14 release, IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh catches up with Subrat on the film and more...

The bilingual author on attending the Venice Biennale, his instinct for language and more

For here, in this development wasteland, rivers don’t live; they merely exist. They exist as relics of their halcyon days when rivers were truly wild, mysterious, free – or as a side character in their own story, as told through poetry and music. They exist in inherited nostalgia.

Mrinal Sen’s decision to move out of Bengal and make films in other languages, though driven by circumstances, had far-reaching consequences

In a few days, the whole world will celebrate the centenary of Sen: the man who changed India’s cinematic landscape forever.