Burra Bazaar
Nandan-West Bengal Film Center
Cha- Tea
Janmashthami
Fine Dine
AN EAR FOR MUSIC
Once, Pt Ravi Shankar had come to perform at a concert at the Basusree cinema. Some 10,000 people waited outside just to get a glimpse of the sitar maestro and Shankar’s exit has remained in their memory — sitting in a lotus pose, being carried overhead from person to person in a circle. Decades later, […]
CRICKET’S GARDEN OF EDEN
What would be your most memorable event at the Eden Gardens? A fired-up Mohun Bagan holding Pele’s Cosmos 2-2 in a friendly in 1977? VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid scripting perhaps India’s greatest-ever Test victory against Australia in 2001? Rohit Sharma’s 264 in an ODI against Sri Lanka in 2014?Or The death of 16 football […]
ROWING THROUGH HISTORY
Rowing as a sport in India and a club for it was started in Kolkata in the colonial era when the East India Company established their trading post on the banks of the Hooghly in the late 17th century. As the capital of British India, Calcutta became a centre of commerce and a melting pot […]