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Amitava Nag's Blog
Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag has translated Soumitra Chatterjee's selected Bengali poems into an English collection Walking through the Mist published this year. This is the first attempt at translating...
Know Thy Dhoni celebrates the playing career and life of one of India's greatest cricketers - Mahendra Singh Dhoni with over Over 400 Questions & Stories.
Noted author Amitava...
As Amphan wreaked havoc through Kolkata, it left behind a stream of changed priorities and perspectives and new realizations. Amitava Nag jots down his stream of consciousness, surviving...
Three wistful poems about remembrance, forgetting and memory by Amitava Nag....
It’s time to stop being a slave to a barrage of information of all kinds, writes Amitava Nag. Let scarcity rule for a while....
Silhouette editor Amitava Nag catches up with young, talented Bengali stage actors Manas Mukherjee and Keshob Bhattacharyya on theatre, cinema & more....
A humorous look at the vagaries of the newly English speaking community of the IT world....
A wistful plea of a lover addressing his last heartfelt words to his lady-love....
A wistful, romantic poem depicting the essence and fervour of Jhulan festival in India during monsoon, a festival celebrating the divine love between Radha and Lord Krishna....
Tapan Sinha had been an epitome of cinematic excellence – artistic and entertaining and that is why he could reach to his audience with élan which at times even the towering Satyajit Ray could not. Sinha’s...
I had two friends Ami and Iam with whom I played and conversed on the vast canvas....
There is boredom
in the bordello
filled with broken
fragrances
of waiting gun powder
and desolate embers –
I pick up the repeater
and send
straight through
my left ear –
words
pen
keyboards
Inside the
swanky svelte,
a monotone labyrinth,
false –
afternoons are placid,
linear and harmonic –
I can see the systematic
rapture of...
A wistful poem about love and longing. ...
Rain creates some of the most beautiful and musical moments. Amitava Nag captures some of them through his lens....
We need to look back and deep into the cinema of ours - with pride and reverence. The medium is developed and sharpened by the West but we use it to tell our story. The Indian film theory should emerge hence....
To Rituparno Ghosh’s credit he brought a section of the Bengali audience back to the cinema halls – to me this is his greatest contribution to Bengali cinema and any history of it will remain largely incomplete unless this due tribute...
Amitava Nag picks 4 female characters from Indian cinema who shined in the darkness and held on to their individuality. These are common-place women with not-so-common demeanor....
Poet Swadesh Sen passed away on March 6, 2014. Amitava Nag remembers him as one of those bridges between the fluidic ornamentation of the 70's and the grounded post-modernist of the 90's. ...
Glimpses of the historic and vibrant city of Kolkata through the lens of Amitava Nag....
Different hues and moods of dewdrops captured by Amitava Nag....
At one corner, like the jewel in the crown resides the Little Magazine pavilion....
Amazing stills of nature, sunrise and sunsets captured by Amitava Nag. ...
Today’s Motivation
Take care of children with sensibility and raise them with love and affection because they are our future generation who will take care of the country tomorrow.