Today is the 110th anniversary of birth of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin. Born in Kishoreganj on December 29, 1914, Zainul ...
Today is the sixth anniversary of death of the legendary Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen. Born on May 14, 1923 in Faridpur, ...
Sunday marks the 110th birth anniversary of the master painter and pioneering art maestro Zainul Abedin, widely revered as ...
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Abu Ishaque's Surjo Dighal Bari (1955), set in the immediate aftermath of the 1943 Bengal famine, painstakingly and evocatively captures the horrors of hunger through the protagonist Jaigun.
Churchill at War, the new Netflix docuseries, is based on a true story that traces Winston Churchill's dark legacy. Read all about it here.
At one point, Liburd compares the 1943 Bengal famine to the Nazi gas chambers, conveniently overlooking the possibility that the Imperial Japanese Army’s invasion of Burma’s rice paddies might ...
The twist in the tale lies in the kind of migration West Bengal is seeing. Jobs for skilled people in this state are few and ...
Additionally, his role in the Bengal famine of 1943, where millions of Indians perished, remains a controversial chapter in his history. “Churchill hung on to imperialism as a way to keep ...
His Famine Sketches depict the devastating effects of the 1943 Bengal famine. The series brought the plight of the starving millions to public attention, and is considered one of the greatest ...
The podcast revolution started in the pandemic and, though some genres have started to feel saturated, it has not slowed down ...
WHO would be a pundit? Just a few months ago all the commentariat agreed: Labour would sweep to power, the SNP would vanish as Labour ushered in “change”, and the good times would roll.