“While at number 3, Tagore showed the Gitanjali collection to Rothenstein, who was so impressed he sent it to W.B. Yeats. On 7 July 1912 at Rothenstein’s house Yeats read the songs to an e...

An untitled Tagore painting of a “couple”, from the 1930s, is to be auctioned by Christie’s on September 22, with a price estimate of between $120,000 and $180,000 (Rs 88 lakh-Rs 1.3...

Gosaba Island, an otherwise remote location on the Bay of Bengal, is set to gain a new lease of life as a tourist destination around Durga Puja this year. South 24-Parganas district administration ha...

The Tamil Nadu government will install a life-size statue of Rabindranath Tagore at Queen Mary’s College, Chennai, and plans to invite Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to unveil it, sources...

Teachers’ Day was celebrated on September 5. It is perhaps felicitous to recall some notable relationships between teachers and students, both within and outside the academia. In modern times, t...

Students and teachers of Visva-Bharati celebrated Calcutta High Court’s interim stay on the varsity’s decision to rusticate three protesting students by breaking their ...

The Visva-Bharati executive council, headed by vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, in an online emergency meeting on Tuesday evening reportedly decided to close the university sine die (with no date s...

One of my earliest memories of theatre is of darkness. I am a sleeping child, eyes shut tight, about to be slaughtered at the divine altar. It is Rabindranath’s play, Bisarjan, where the go...

Androgyny is coming of age on the Kolkata stage. In recent years, DumDum Shabdomugdho Naatyokendra, led by Rakesh Ghosh, has been consistent in exploring the ambiguity of gender expression in performa...

Balaka Salt Lake City held day-long events on Independence Day — flag hoisting, cultural programmes, health camp… Major (retd) Tapas Chakraborty hoisted the flag and delivered an inspiri...