Rabindranath Tagore

By PTI KOLKATA: Nearly six decades after filmmaker Tapan Sinha dished out cult movie 'Kabuliwala', based on a timeless story written by Rabindranath Tagore, another Bengali film with Mithun Chakraborty in the lead…

Express News Service The world may have revered Rabindranath Tagore for his romantic lyricism, but not artist Amrita Sher-Gil, who found the Nobel Laureate’s poetry “piddling”. “I have a profound contempt for it as I…

Sharmila Mukerjee in stills from the dance ballet | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Dancer’s Worship, an Odissi dance production, is choreographed by Odissi dancer Sharmila Mukerjee. The dance is based on Rabindranath Tagore’s play Natir…

The new Aparajito directed by Anik Datta is a bona fide hit and a good photocopy but that’s about it The new  Aparajito directed by Anik Datta is a bona fide hit and a good photocopy but that’s about it In the new film  Aparajito,…

On Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday (May 7), singers Shaan, Kumar Sanu and Dr Palash Sen talk about the impact his poetry and music have had on their art Musicians often talk about the importance of Rabindra Sangeet, Rabindranath Tagore…

By PTI NEW DELHI: A new book explores Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's work for rural reconstruction by setting up 'Sriniketan', a wing of his Visva Bharati International University at Santiniketan in 1922. The…

Saba Ali Khan digs up the best pictures of her famous family for her followers which range from black and white pics of her parents Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi to candid clicks of her nieces and nephews including Taimur.…

The popular museum-exhibition highlights art in Bengal from the 18th to the 20th centuries A popular museum-exhibition showcasing 200 years of art, housed in a building that is nearly as old and that nearly got demolished, last weekend…

West Bengal Transport Corporation’s depot walls to celebrate city’s diversity The Transport Department and art may not always travel hand in hand, but in Kolkata they have come together to lend some colour to roads in the heart of the…

The 11th President of India and space scientist APJ Abdul Kalam has a list of stellar achievements to his credit.By Reya MehrotraAs the name suggests, the day of Guru Purnima is dedicated to all the gurus—spiritual or academic—who have…