Kolkata Tilottama: Plunge Into the Depths of Our City

“The city of Joy”, Kolkata, offers an array of interesting places to the inquisitive knower! Apart from all of its historical containers, the most out of the box is the “KOLKATA METRO RAILWAY”. From the silver screen of Bollywood to the lovers point, Kolkata metro always portray its shine in the history of Kolkata. You get a glimpse when you remember about the scene of ‘Kahaani’ starred by Vidya Balan at Rabindra Sarobar metro station. This is tricky but on the summer days inside the air conditioned rakes are like a sudden shower, the ultimate comfort for all the passengers in the scorching heat. Kolkata’s Metro is India’s first underground metro railway with mass rapid system serving the City of of Kolkata and the districts of south 24 Parganas and north 24 Parganas. In past there was only one metro railroad in Kolkata, but at present there is an another metro railroad developing in Kolkata called East West Metro Corridor worked by Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation(KMRC) which is

Addiction is an evil, which is a menace to the society or an individual, more or less everyone seems to have an addiction, and it can be from drinking coffee, gambling, shopping to drinking alcohol, smoking and consumption of drugs. Some of the addictions are only threat to the very individual or the very family, but some of them are not only threat to the individual or the family but also to the society. Drug and alcohol addiction of late have emerged as a great peril to Kolkata as the young generation is falling prey to this demon easily. Young generation takes it as a sensation, a symbol of modernism at first but soon they become enslaved by it. Mainly the age group between 18 and 24 is becoming dependent on drugs, nicotine, and alcohol. These phenomena generally occur out of curiosity, loneliness, depressing, stress, inferiority complex, excessive pressure of school or college, social life, a mental gap with parents, etc. Some parents give a good amount of pocket money to the

I shall spend my day with no work to do, playing the flute the whole day in the nature’s lap, I shall spend my day with no work to do—“ আজ বিনা কাজে বাজিয়ে বাঁশি কাটবে সকল বেলা  “ – What do we do now if we ever feel this way ! In this world of concrete when it is even difficult to have a glance of the clear blue sky, the city of Kolkata gives us an open lush green land to glance at the sky and to spend a day of leisure at what we call popularly as Rabindra Sadan Area. Though addressed to by that name it actually comprises of six such places that also makes it the Cultural Epicenter of Kolkata. It is here that we can try-say, a bit on the Dylan tone, CULTURE MY FRIEND IS BLOWING IN THE WIND. A place, which is never abandoned, is thronged by all kind of people ranging from the age group of six to sixty. It is located at the AJC Bose Road and Cathedral Road Junction and is the south-east point of the Kolkata Maidan, popularly referred to as GORER MATH. The place is also circled

On the 4 th of November 1925 in the state of Dhaka in the then East Bengal, now Bangladesh, Indubala Devi and Suresh Chandra Ghatak, a district magistrate and poet gave birth to a pair of twins, the youngest of their nine kids, Ritwik and Prateeti. The family shifted base to Kolkata before the woeful Bengal Famine of 1943 and the Indian Independence of 1947. This little boy, with the torments of the millions of refugees in his mind and his deep love for the banks of River Padma grew up to be one of the most free-spirited directors the world has ever seen with mostly all his films deeply influenced by the mental hysteria of the refugees from Bangladesh due to India’s Independence and Partition. Due to extreme alcoholism and the diseases following it, it became difficult for Ghatak to continue making films for a long time. What is Ghatak’s Films About? Indian Independence and Partition of 1947 and The Bangladesh Liberation war of 1971 had resulted in millions of