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They Come Together. And How.

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: July 15, 2008

Rabindranath Tagore – the Poet Laureate of India
Matt Harding – an idiosyncratic individual bit by the wanderlust bug. Jives with strangers around the world in a dance that is somewhere in-between Chicken and Raindance.
Garry Schyman – a musician based in Los Angeles
Palbasha Sidique – a 17 year old Bangladeshi girl who lives in Minneapolis, USA
Praan [...]

Many Faces of a Genius

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: May 2, 2008

He wrote, he made films, he composed music, he painted. He was arguably only second to Rabindranath Tagore to leave an indelible impression of Bengali art on the rest of the modern world.
Much before I was introduced to the films of Satyajit Ray, I was an avid fan of his fictional detective “Feluda”. It was [...]