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      • Qissa
      • The Woman Who Loved – Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
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  • ABOUT
  • BLOG
    • Books
      • Rewriting the Epics : How Today’s Creators Remix Ramayana and Mahabharata
      • Book Review : Butter, Blood, and the Burden of Being Seen
      • Saints Or Sinners – Ruskin Bond Treats Every Character Equally
      • Ever Raised Any Eyebrows, as You liked Reading While Walking? Milkman by Anna Burns
      • Samaresh Basu
      • Ayn Rand & Me
      • United We Revolt
      • Swapan Kumar and his Sleuth — The Cornerstone of Bangla Pulp Fiction
      • Subhas Mukhopadhyay: Portrait of a People’s Poet
      • A Legend Passes Away. A Legacy Remains. Forever.
      • Manto – Man With Unprocessed Raw Words
    • Art
      • The Erotics of Isolation: Loneliness in Amrita Sher-Gil’s Self-Portraits”
      • How to Really ‘See’ Art: A Beginner’s Emotional Guide Inspired by John Berger
      • Evolution of the Indian Art – Is it going to reach every corner soon?
      • Woodstock
      • I got the Blues
      • The World Learns to Rock – Part I
      • The World Learns to Rock – Part II
      • The World Learns to Rock – Part III
      • Kalamkari – Reviving the Ancient Art of Storytelling
      • Madhubani – A Celebration of Mithila Art
      • Women & Art
      • Hiran Mitra’s Japan Diary
      • LGBT & Art
    • movies
      • Khamoshi: A Silent Masterpiece That Speaks Volumes
      • Dogman – An Exciting Thriller for Dog Lovers
      • The Adorable Teachers and Professors in Movies
      • Evolution of The Indian Film Industry : From Black & White to OTT
      • Evolution of Bengali Cinema— the Cultural Nuances, Portrayal of the Society and the Transformation in Popular Culture – Part 1
      • When the Characters on Screen Can Hear It Too — Diegetic Sounds in Indian Cinema
      • An Abstract Hunt for the Meaning of life – The Top Layer Philosophy of “The Banshees of Inisherin”
      • Cut, Chop, Cook, Clean, Repeat – The Great Indian Kitchen
      • Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan
      • Rituparno Ghosh: Actor and Rebel
      • The Making of Tamas
      • Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy
      • 127 Hours
      • Naseem
      • Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda
      • Qissa
      • Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan
      • Perfect Days – Finding Joy In Every Moment – Philosophy
      • Movies That Came Ahead of Their Time
    • Culture
      • Queer Languages – The Secret Code for Survival
      • The Revolutionary Dancers – Bringing Changes with Movements in Space
      • Skydiving In the Land of Multicolor Ashes – Banaras
      • Omar Khayyam’s Potions of Wisdom for Writers, Poets, and Rebels
    • Thoughts
      • Where are the Happy Coincidences of Hrishikesh Mukherjee & PG Wodehouse?
      • The Story of Love
      • Rationality of being Agnostic
      • Marilyn Monroe – Max Factor
      • You often penetrate my Mind
      • Poets of Passion – Rumi & Tagore
      • Once Upon a Time…in Advertising
      • Love Letter To Gulzar Saab
      • Books, Movies and Some Random Philosophy
      • Love and ‘Other Factor’
      • If you can’t fix it, you gotta stand it!
      • ‘Re-framing Stigma’ ⁠— LGBTQ and HIV
      • Unpacking the Transgenders (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019
    • History
      • A Brief History of Bengal’s Sweat Meat & The Portuguese Influence
      • The Zenana System : History, Education & the Cosmopolitan Set-up
      • Kanpur as the centre of Revolutionary Activities
      • Shekhawati — Havelis Reiterating The Tales of Glorious Days
      • Mata Hari – The Weeping Mother Who Turned Into A Dancer & Spy.
      • Partition Literature — Was The Partition of India a matter of ego satisfaction?
      • Did the Muslims of India opt for the Partition of India?
      • The Partitions of Bengal I
      • Partitions of Bengal (II)
      • Qissa
      • The Woman Who Loved – Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
    • philosophy
      • Rabindranath Tagore and Buddhism: The Philosophy of Peace & Compassion
      • Loneliness & solitude – The Pain & Paradox
      • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Virtual Tour Inside A Depressed Mind
      • Fakir Lalon Shah – Voice of the Poor
      • Nietzschean Bad Conscience in Koreeda’s Shoplifters
      • Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
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  • Post Date April 18, 2018
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by Anushree Ghosh  “What is thy name? He said, ‘My name is Love.’ Then straight the first did turn himself to me And cried, ‘He […]

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The Story of Love

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  • Post Date January 15, 2018
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Love is so profound in its existence, it goes beyond the general definition of ‘relationships’. Do you really believe that love is selfless and unconditional? […]

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Ayn Rand & Me

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  • Post Date April 17, 2017
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Estimated read time 4 min read

We first met when my friend handed me the iconic book ‘The Fountainhead’. I wasn’t a literature person then; this friend was my only medium […]

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Love and ‘Other Factor’

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  • Post Date February 14, 2017
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Estimated read time 4 min read

Many have died and went insane, many have lost their hearts in vain, and many have scribbled on walls, or have cut their wrists. The […]

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Rationality of being Agnostic

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  • Post Date February 3, 2017
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Estimated read time 5 min read

In the words of Marx, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of the soulless […]

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