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Bolai Chatterjee Kazi Nazrul Islam’s uncompromising attitude towards secularism never permitted any particular community to claim him and he continues to remain an important symbol of unity for Bengalis on both sides of the border. As the world is treading the dreadful path to be broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls, it is […]

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Tapan Kumar Bose Dear readers of Dukalom, I never had the luxury going through much of the works of the rebellious poet Kazi Nazrul Islam but my latent interest quietly sprouted during the past few weeks of compulsive worklessness. Kazi Nazrul Islam or ‘Dukhumia’ as he was known, was born on 24th May, 1899 at Churulia […]

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Sarbani Ghosh Basu “What is needed is eagerness of heart for a fruitful communication between different cultures. Anything that prevents this is barbarism.” Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian to win a Noble prize for literature, was a man in pursuit of “universalism”, by which he hoped to bridge the relationship between his homeland in the […]

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Sudeshna Chakravarty Kazi Nazrul Isam was a renowned poet, writer and musician and is the national poet of Bangladesh. He was born on May 25, 1899 in Churulia Village, present-day West Bengal. His writings have explored a number of themes such as freedom, humanity, love, revolution, devotion. Born in a Bengali Muslim family, he received […]

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 Srimanta Mitra For ardent lovers of Satyajit Ray’s detective Feluda, The Mystery of the Pink Pearl is not a very memorable one. It does not have the depth of The Golden Temple, or the thrills of The Bandits of Bombay, or the edge-of-the-seat spookiness as The Secret of the Cemetery. But for me, it was […]

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Author: Sanchari Goswami Majumdar How Different Are Indian TV Serials From The Modern Indian Web Series?     We all need entertainment in some form – be it movies, books, or theatre. However, since the invention of the Television set, it has become the most powerful form of audiovisual medium of entertainment. The one thing […]

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Author: Sunday man “ ….. the much loved, much hated but always interesting” — Desmond Doig Where … Neruda and Feluda are always on the bestseller list. Even beyond Jadavpur… Or the score in a basketball match between Ethiopia and Sudan, is of far greater interest than where the Dalal Street closed yesterday. Where… affection is doled out […]

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Author: Srimanta Mitra   I have been an avid Murakami fan for two years now. I first started reading his novels when I was in my first year of college when one day in the library I found a book with a semi-naked woman on the cover of a book authored by a man whose […]

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