#TocRecommends – Beloved Delhi – A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets by Saif Mahmood
Book recommendations by @rishiraj_7 for @tasteofcalcutta – Beloved Delhi – A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets by Saif Mahmood #ToCRecommends Beloved Delhi traces the lives and works of some of Urdu’s greatest poets who lived in Delhi through the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This period was a very special one. It was during this time that the Mughal Empire was in its ultimate decline, and Delhi was the centre … Continue reading #TocRecommends – Beloved Delhi – A Mughal City and Her Greatest Poets by Saif Mahmood
#ToCRecommends – Ismat Chugtai – A Life in Words: Memoirs
Book recommendations by @rishiraj_7 for @tasteofcalcutta – Ismat Chugtai – A Life in Words: Memoirs. Translated for the original Urdu Kaghazi Hai Pairahan by M. Asaduddin #ToCRecommends This book contains the crucial years of Urdu literature’s one of the most controversial female writers. Ismat Chugtai was known for her outspoken ways of representing the then social structure, family dynamics and femininity. She’s amongst the nation’s foremost feminist writers, representing the … Continue reading #ToCRecommends – Ismat Chugtai – A Life in Words: Memoirs
#TocRecommends – Daughters of the Sun by Ira Mukhoty
Book recommendations by @rishiraj_7 for @tasteofcalcutta – Daughters of the sun by @iramukhoty #ToCRecommends Daughters of the sun traces the lives of the most ignored members of the Mughal empire, its women. Most representations of women of the Mughal empire are often misinterpreted and fantasised by our western counterparts. This book gives us a very detailed description of the lives within the Mughal harem and the significance of women in … Continue reading #TocRecommends – Daughters of the Sun by Ira Mukhoty
Save Boi Para
More than a 300 small and large scale bookstores and publications have been ravaged by the cyclone Amphan. College Street, being Asia’s largest book market, has special listings for vintage magazines, comics, limited edition books, personal diaries of eminent personalities. Most of them are lost, destroyed. In this era of e-books, the hardcovers have become more of a hassle to carry around rather than being … Continue reading Save Boi Para
8 Foods We are Missing during this Quarantine
Remaining quarantined amidst Covid-19 Pandemic to minimize the spread has also given us time to reflect on all that we take for granted in our daily life. Whether it’s going out for a cup of coffee, taking a trip, walking around Rabindra Sarobar Lake or striking up a conversation with a fellow passer-by, such moments of the mundane daily life feels like luxury, out of … Continue reading 8 Foods We are Missing during this Quarantine
What does Durga Pujo mean to you?
To Anurag Aich pujo means: Pujo maane ei asha bochorer ei 5 ta din sobaar bhaalo jaak.. Aapcha chobir moddhe sthayi prochur sriti nirbaak. Pujo maane maa baapi r agei bolaa Shono,Astami te 3 jon ek saathe berobo.. Hete paa betha kintu porer din aro besi poth ghurbo. Pujo maane cacophony r maajheo ekta shaanti pawa.. Doshomi thekei abar Mahalaya r countdown shuru kora. Pujo maane … Continue reading What does Durga Pujo mean to you?
Mullick Ghat Flower Market during the Pujos
With more than a hundred and twenty five years of selling flowers, the flower market in Mullick Ghat is now the biggest of its kind in the whole of Eastern India, and is one of the largest flower markets in Asia. Known to all Calcuttans, it is situated just below the Rabindra Setu (1st Howrah Bridge) on Calcutta’s side, and is adjacent to the Armenian … Continue reading Mullick Ghat Flower Market during the Pujos
The Idol Makers of Kalighat Potua Para
Watch the video here, from the heart of Kalighat Potua Para. Kalighat kumor para came into prominence along with Kalighat potua para. Known for idols of Goddess Kali during Kalipujo or Diwali, the workshops are based where Kalighat Road curves north from Hazra Road. The structures here similar to those found in Kumortuli. Video shot by Aritra and Akash. Edited by Akash. Cover photo by … Continue reading The Idol Makers of Kalighat Potua Para
The Idol Makers
Watch the Idol Makers at work here The long awaited month of Pujas is around the corner. With bated breath, the people of Bengali and ‘Probashi Bangalis’ alike wait for Ma Durga to visit her maternal home along with her kids. A festival which rises above religious, caste differences, there is beauty in the wait and joy in the tears when we bid Durga farewell … Continue reading The Idol Makers
The Making of Durga Maa
It’s that time of the year again, and what better way to acknowledge Maa’s homecoming than to capture the artisans at work, creating masterpieces to be worshipped year on year. The featured photographers from our #TheMakingOfDurgaMaa campaign are Shubham Biswas, Kunal Barui, Arijit Das, Labonya Chaudhuri, Oishee Sen, Saubhanik Ghosal , Saikat Kundu , Susnata Majumder, Harshita Rai and Subhajit Bhowmik as well as some of our very own ToC team photographers … Continue reading The Making of Durga Maa
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