Baba Baby O (2022) Hoichoi Review: Windows Production, the production house founded and run by the duo of Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, has been in forefront of a ‘resurgence’ in the…
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There are two anecdotes people know about educator and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. The first is his contribution to Indian society at large – the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act, 1856. The…
Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikary is hailed for having founded one of the first football clubs in India, the Wellington Club in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1884. He is also popular for having shunned…
Aparna Sen sets up her 1995 film Yugant (What The Sea Said) with the most ubiquitous premise. An estranged couple meets several months after separation, on pre-determined terms in a seaside town…
The movement and transition achieved in Yudhajit Basu’s short documentary Kalsubai occur in nimble ways. The voice of a woman (Jyoti Subhash) wafts over geological formations, which seamlessly morphs into the likes…
To enjoy brown sugar, one must have a uniform flame and that cannot be achieved in a wooden match stick, a wax match stick is needed for the purpose. These sticks are…