Author Ashok Banker launches his new epic
Kolkata, Mar 12 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Popular epic storyteller Ashok Kumar Banker launched his new book titled “The Forest of Stories” (Mahabharata series) here on Saturday. The book launch was organized by Starmark in association with Westland. On the occasion an interactive session was conducted by Trisha Ray, a young adult author writing for [...]
Mar 10, 2012 (Calcutta Tube): Bodhisatwa Dasgupta, Copy Controller at Ogilvy and Mather, in Gurgaon, Haryana, is trying to prevent good old-fashioned words from fading into obscurity. A report This is an age dominated by visuals, where images make more impact than words. Even cinema becomes the preferred medium as many children and adults move [...]
Continue reading …New Delhi, Mar 8 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Colours flow in the streets, lanes and bylanes of a festival loving nation as India celebrated Holi on Thursday. From red to bright orange, people smear each other with abir (gulal) and hurled coloured water balloons at each other and shouted “Happy Holi”. The warmth of bright [...]
Continue reading …ShabdaHarin is a little magazine of poems and poetry related articles published quarterly. The little magazine that started literary journey in 2009 from Kolkata has surpassed geographical and linguistic boundaries of Bengal. It is not a mere commercial Kolkata magazine anymore. Besides publishing original Bengali poems and essays related to poetry, ShabdaHarin encourages translations from [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Mar 3 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): EZCC and Bangla Academy jointly presented a programme of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs and poems called “Songs for the Seasons” recently. Padmashree and Sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta and Subhaprasanna, the eminent painter, were present at the occasion. Subhaprasanna said, “William Radice is the person who wanted to know [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): After Munich and Berlin, its time for art lovers of Kolkata to witness the acclaimed art and sculpture exhibition on Rabindranath Tagore “Enduring Legacy”. Akar Prakar, an open-air art gallery, and the Indian Council of Cultural Relation (ICCR) have jointly organised the exhibition in Kolkata. The exhibition was inaugurated by Reena Lath, [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Mar 3 (Calcutta Tube /IBNS): A children’s film festival centered around Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was organized by the Children’s Film Society, India (CFSI) and Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC) at Nandan in Kolkata recently. To celebrate Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary, CFSI organized ‘Chelebela’, a celebration of Tagore’s stories on children through films, [...]
Continue reading …Kolkata, Feb 14 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): New research has shown that the Wonders of the World, long considered draw cards when it comes to attracting travellers, are now being overlooked. The latest survey conducted by global hotels expert Hotels.com has found that global holidaymakers are leaving many of these ‘must-see’ landmarks off their travel [...]
Continue reading …New Delhi, Feb 14 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Come Valentine’s Day and there’s love all over and this year even Google seems to be mesmerized by the spirit of the occasion which is precisely the reason one can see a new Google doodle on the homepage specially designed for the day. The musical video doodle [...]
Continue reading …California, Feb 14 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) County run Edward-Dean Museum & Gardens in California is reportedly celebrating Hindu festival of Basant Panchami on February 19. Five hour celebrations at this Cherry Valley (Riverside county) located Museum will reportedly include worship of Saraswati; revered Hindu goddess of knowledge/learning, music, art, language/speech, and poetry; besides a [...]
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