Art & Cultural News from Bengal

How did you feel when last week Netflix movie ‘Extraction’ shown all over the globe had Bengali words spoken by foreign actors? Well, it reflected the deep connect between the Bengali and Australian movie world!

On the International Dance Day, Somnath Kutty, son of respected Bharatnatyam danseuse, teacher and thought leader Thankamani Kutty, pens the journey of his mother from a remote village in Kerala to Kolkata and how over a period of 62 years they all made Bengal their home.

LET CLEANLINESS GO VIRAL - a poster by Prasenjit Bera’s, Creative Supervisor at Ogilvy & Mather, Kolkata, contributes an interesting piece of artwork to the #Goviraltostopthevirus initiative.

LET ART GO VIRAL - a poster by Gourab Jana, Masters in Applied Art from Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, weaves an interesting piece of artwork with ink and colours as a part of his contribution to the #Goviraltostopthevirus initiative.

Eminent Rabindrasangeet singer Mohan Singh Khangura discusses the importance of classical music lessons and shares other unknown tales from Santiniketan.

The emotional letter written by Irrfan Khan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar after her husband’s death has made all of us teary eyed and numb. But from Tagore to Netaji, it is said Bengalis always knew how to write letters the best!

From Chandalika to Srimati, Lord Buddha was the driving force behind the creation of these masterpieces by Rabindranath Tagore.

The ties between Bengal and Australia are older than most of us think, and a new anthology of short stories seeks to strengthen those ties.
Our present and one of our earliest associate and content partners in Getbengal, Saheli Mitra is the only contributor from South Asia in this compilation.

From Mustafa Rumi to Albert Einstein. From Philosophy to Science, Tagore’s unending curiosity in knowing from World thinkers helped him in his Visva Parichay.

On Wednesday, December 23, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the annual Bangla Sangeet Mela 2020 at Kolkata’s Uttirno auditorium in Alipore. Simultaneously, she also inaugurated the Biswabangla Lok Sanskriti Utsab.

The Samabhav Travelling International Film Festival was held in Kolkata last month which carries the tagline ‘Celebrating Gender Diversity and Inclusion’ and travels across the length and breadth of the country.

As rightly put in by actor and multi-disciplinary artiste Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee, who presented to the audience ‘Sunset Musings’: “We have created a literary juxtaposition, where world poets and their creations (some of them Nobel Laureates themselves like Tagore) blend in the backdrop of Rabindranath Tagore’s apt songs.”

Filmmaker Anik Dutta’s new film Aparajito - set for release on May 13 to mark Satyajit Ray’s 102nd birthday - is a classic example of a creator blending with his creation, a reconstruction of the legendary filmmaker’s journey with Pather Panchali the film.

A three-part series on the tales of famous dacoits of Bengal in the 18th and 19th century.

Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri - A tribute on the pioneering polymath’s 160th birthday.

Exercise is an integral part of modern life and with this view in mind, Bankura Eco-Gym has been set up by a group of youths in the jungle as there is no suitable place to exercise in Balrampur, Bankura.

Sen wanted a fresh voice for Bhuvan Shome.

On World Migratory Bird Day

‘Lathi khela' is an indigenous martial arts form of Bengal

The women are being trained by members of the Nature Environment and Wildlife Society

Ustad Safiur Rahman is a renowned lyricist/composer

The tall robust trees of Fancy Lane bore silent witness to the crime perpetrated on poor subaltern people

Dhan Gopal Mukerji, one of the earliest iconic cosmopolitan Indian modernists, traveled abroad in the first decade of the 20th century

This service will ferry cargo trucks from Kolkata Port to Shalimar and Sankhrail

On International Day of Museums, a look at Kolkata’s many hidden treasures