People - Biography

Reminiscing a man of letters...Debashish Bandyopadhyay. ...It was around April, 2009. I was at" Mayurakshi"(name of the house) for collecting an article. Bamada (well known writer Bamaprasad Mukhopadhyay) gave me the connection to the landlord. Bookshelf is a common factor in any author’s house. But I had not at all been prepared for the prodigious aura I perceived that day. No sooner the handsome old man had come and taken a chair in front of my couch that I could fully comprehended his dignified peerage. The veteran was smoking in his elegant gesture. Years after , once in a personal discussion Debasish Bandyopadhyay coined his cigarette as a quiet companion of solitude. Prior to my admiration of him as a maverick literary figure he was regarded as a legitimate peer of mine. The last of the peers lived at an era awfully characterized by its inherent kakistocracy.

Mumbai, January 14 (Washington Bangla Radio, USA) - Sajid the dreamer and the story teller of hindi cinema industry has a long association with this magic reality. 

Rituparno Ghosh’s cinema is defined by his signature style which makes him one of the most outstanding contemporary filmmakers in India. He left behind a wonderful bouquet of films that will remain archived in the film archives across the world. A book on Rituparno Ghosh titled “Reading Rituparno” was recently launched by eminent film journalist Shoma A. Chatterji, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Bratya Basu and Arindam Sil.