While the world races forward towards a more modernized approached to living, there are still pockets of settlements who abide by the traditional way of living, involving a more private relationship shared between Human and Nature. The practice of worshiping nature, in its various shapes and forms has been an authentic aspect of it. This […]
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Women’s work is the greatest untapped resource in the world. We undervalue it at our peril, writes Barnana H. Sarkar Did you know that just one in four Indian women gets paid for her work? According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), over the past 27 years, even as India’s economy has been rapidly expanding, […]
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Barnana H Sarkar reviews mood music for our times from Kolkata’s new rockers Most people listen to music, attend concerts, or even compose their own sound because music has that strange ability to take us outside ourselves, to help us momentarily forget everything else. Some musicians take it upon themselves to give their listener those […]
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It is time, the classical dance form of Bengal got its due. Barnana Hemoprava January 18, 2018: Old age doesn’t always portend oblivion. While several Indian dance forms like Cham (the 1,300-year-old mystical dance of Tibet), Ojha (the religious dance of Assam) and Domni (a folk dance drama from Maldah) are gradually declining in popularity, Gaudiya […]
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