Shakti Chattopadhyay

College Street in Kolkata, also known as Boi Para, is a historic hub of knowledge and culture, originating from Madhab Dutta's pond and the establishment of Hindu College in 1817. It has evolved into the world's largest second-hand book market, fueled by the legacy of Battala presses and the intellectual atmosphere of Coffee House.

He worked with Nandikar between 1986 and 1996, made visually impaired actors a sight for sore eyes on stage by forming the Blind Opera, penned plays as well as novels. And now, continuing his tryst with art and literature, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay is playing shakti chattopadhyay in Belghoria Hathekhori’s latest production, Sunil Gangopadhyay.

The music launch of Parapaar was a celebration of sorts for music directors Soumo & Sourendra, who brought together Asha Bhonsle, Kaushiki Chakraborty, Papon to Chandrani Banerjee and Subhomita on the same platform.

At a time when poets like Sunil Gangopadhyay and shakti chattopadhyay represented a genre that took a radical position against accepted norms, Soumitra Chattopadhyay held his own ground that was neither anarchic nor romantic. He was an observer of life. There was subtlety in his writing. There were layers of poignant meanings in his poems that sometimes read almost like prose on the surface but had an underlying rhythm in their non-Tagorean, non-romantic approach. This is how the critics of Soumitra ‘the poet’ admire and sum him up.

Those were the turbulent Fifties and the furious Sixties.Those were the times when the boundaries of youth and bohemianism were being re-written in Bengal.

National Award-winning filmmaker-actor Aparna Sen has started something unique while stuck at home amid the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak. She is conducting poetry sessions from her home for all her fans and followers on social media.

When it rains, it also pours and its pouring memories for Debajyoti Mishra, who shared the story behind the ‘rain ballad’ — Piya Tora Kaisa Abhimaan — from Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Raincoat’.

KOLKATA: Bengal's bards will soon have their space in the virtual world. With a website on poet shakti chattopadhyay nearly ready, a few culture stalwarts are planning to launch a series on the state's best known writers.

For an iconic figure like Soumitra Chatterjee, it’s quite embarrassing to see modern Bengali actors not having the credibility to speak even their mother tongue properly.

National Award-winning filmmaker-actor Aparna Sen did something unique while stuck at home amid the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. She conducted poetry sessions from her home for all her fans and followers on social media.

Batchmates of shakti chattopadhyay at Presidency College have decided to make his 75th birth year memorable.

City theatre lovers are in for a treat what with Nandikar gearing up to stage an adaptation of the 1989 Hollywood hit, Dead Poets Society. And what’s more, they will get to see Sohini Sengupta in the iconic role of an English teacher, immortalised as John Keating by Robin Williams.

The room broke into a round of applause.

By his own admission, he has a lot to say. But not all can be expressed through music. So Pallab Kirtania has donned the director���s hat for the first time. His debut film, Daughter of Clouds, is already on the floors.

National Award-winning filmmaker-actor Aparna Sen did something unique while stuck at home amid the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. She conducted poetry sessions from her home for all her fans and followers on social media.

The Nandita Roy-Shiboprosad Mukherjee has completed 3 years and everyone associated with the film feels nostalgic.

Rabindranath Tagore continues to be a part of every teatable discussion.

A fire broke out at the first floor of the 75-year-old New Basanta Cabin restaurant at Hedua in north Kolkata on Friday afternoon.

I want to live intensely, get into situations, taste life", Shyamal Gangopadhyay used to say, "and draw the stuff of my fiction from there." So he did. He lived loudly, zestfully, sometimes naughtily, and wrote his heart out for four decades.

To reminisce about some unforgettable canteen moments, former and present students of the college will get together on Sunday at Calcutta Club for a unique Bijoya Sammilani.

KOLKATA: The outside world learnt about Bengali poetry through the English translation of Gitanjali, pointed out Gulzar while releasing a one of a kind anthology, Signposts, in New Delhi last month.

Can music and poetry be far behind once the season of love sets in? Verses and songs will merge to celebrate love and romance this Valentine's weekend at the Bengal Club.