Matangini Hazra staged a black flag demonstration in front of the dais. Her involvement with the freedom struggle intensified during the Quit India Movement launched by Gandhi in August 1942.
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Rokeya Begum— The Feminist Thinker, Writer, Educator and Political Activist from British India.
Rokeya’s words clearly demonstrate how clear she was with her idea of liberty, which will materialise only if women wake up to the fact that they have the potential to change the world, coming out of their closets.
Once Upon a Time…in Advertising
by Monojit Lahiri Phew! From “Thank God you’re not one of those small-town, Vernac types, dear boy” to “Oye angrez, Hindi aati hai?”…we’ve indeed come a long way, baby! But to begin at the beginning…it was a completely different planet, the India and Kolkata of the early seventies and a totally different adspace too….
Swapan Kumar and his Sleuth — The Cornerstone of Bangla Pulp Fiction
by Chitto Ghosh I had a collection of the one and only Samarendra Nath Pandey alias Swapan Kumar’s trend-setting crime pulp fictions—120 of them, written between 1953 to the early ’80s. This primarily includes the Crime and Mystery Series, Kaalrudra Series, Biswachakra Series, Rocket Series, Dragon Series, Kaalnagini Series, Baajpakhi Series, Kaalonekde Series and others. More…