WHEN THE CURTAINS GO UP
At the corner of Ezra Street, at the entry of Kolkata’s largest light market, stands a memorial plaque. It is on this lane, at 25, Domtolla, now, 37, Ezra Street, that the first European-style Bengali proscenium theatre in India was established in 1795. This memorial plaque is dedicated to Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev, the founder of […]