Featuring designs by Sharmin Akhter Chowdhury, the exhibition presents the symbol of color of Bangladesh and the reflection of nature of our six seasons. As our dress pattern, color, style changes with the weather and season, Sharmin deeply see the changes in nature and human beings specially women and bring it out to the fashion.

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A solo photography exhibition of Anwar Hossain showcasing some of his best photographs just for you!

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Come along with your friends and family and check out some exclusive artwork.

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Every year during the month of July, Delhi Tourism Board in collaboration with the Delhi government organizes Mango festivals. The international mango festival in Delhi is a tribute to the popularity and the passion that almost everyone shares for these delicious fruits.

Mahanagar@Kolkata

Dir:Suman Mukhopadhyay Cast:Anjan Dutt, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Biplab Chatterjee, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha Mitra, Kabir Suman, Pawan Kanodia.

The dangerous homogenization of a metropolis in a global world torn by ethnic conflicts, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, real estate developers ruled by the mafia, and the all-pervading hate between and among fellow humans is the message Mahanagar@Kolkata brings across. It shows how distanced this metropolis (mahanagar) has become from ‘The Big City’ (Mahanagar) of Satyajit Ray. After a successful tryst with Tagore for his second film Chaturanga, Suman returns to his favourite muse, Nabarun. The three stories are – Ek Tukro Nyloner Dori (A Piece of Nylon Rope), Amar Kono Bhoy Nei Toh? (I Have Nothing to Fear, Do I?) and Angshik Chandragrahan (Partial Lunar Eclipse), each one different from the other but speaking of the global emotion that rules our lives, a universally democratic reality we must learn to live with – fear.

 Ananda Cinema

 

New singer/ songwriter Krishnakali is dazzling audiences with her new album, a collection of songs with an intensity and power that can communicate with your very soul. Shampee Barua caught up with the rising star to talk love, longing and letting the music speak for itself.

 

“My mother taught me how to sing,” says Krishnokoli. “From a young age, I used to recite different lyrics to the tunes of Rabindra Sangeet. My mother encouraged me to make up more songs. The first song I composed was ‘Chaader Maburi’. When I was fourteen I composed the song Bondhua, which is on the album.”

 

Krishnokoli also spent three years studying music at Dhaka’s Chayanaught. When she was 16, her friends persuaded her to make an album. Unfortunately, instead of supporting Krishnokoli’s unique sound, many of the artists that she attempted to work with wanted her to change her music style, claiming that her music was too depressing.

 

She says that depression did contribute to her music, and making her songs more cheerful would be unnatural and untrue to what she feels and who she is. ‘Hot-hath rode,’ one of the songs on this album, was written as an effort to jar herself out of severe depression. ‘It’s like when you have mud or dirt stuck to something,’ Krishnakali explains. ‘You just try to shake the dirt off. That song was the act of shaking, freeing myself of those negative feelings.’

 

She is fond of classical music, old Bangla songs and more modern music such as Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, whom she describes as ‘revolutionary’. She finds Bangla cinema songs to be irritating though, and sees much of contemporary Bangla music as rather formulaic.

 

“I want people of today’s generation to appreciate the language that our parents and their parents used to speak,” says Krishnokoli. “I feel that today’s generation is superficial and sometimes lacks depth. The problem with us is that we have gone further away from ourselves. I want to bring us back and hope that people hear my songs and feel and understand where I am coming from, and at the same time, learn to appreciate and love our language as much as I do."