Bondhu Collective, an NGO, working with children from Kolkata’s Kalighat red-light area and nearby underprivileged households, celebrates their journey of empowering young minds through education and care, marks its third year in Kolkata as a former student who overcame violence to become a board member at just 21. Operating from Batighar Pathshala, their primary center in Kalighat area where their …
Bondhu is Kunal Sen’s first book. That’s how Kunal addressed his father, renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen, who would have turned 100 this year. They also shared a common ideology: that of making the world a fairer and better place to live, and believed films could be a way to talk about such ideas. Throughout his career, he never made more …
The famed cinematographer, who worked with the master in his last film Aamaar Bhuvan, says Sen never stopped trying to break the stereotype. I asked Mrinal da which particular movie he was thinking of, and he said Que Viva Mexico. When Mrinal da started making films, most filmmakers were committed to the idea of realism. Mrinal da probably realised that …
U was a friend from school. “I hope he’s okay.” U sometimes shared, perhaps even over-shared, his health problems in the group. In some ways, this drove home for me “the epidemic of loneliness” in an ever more connected world that the US surgeon general Vivek Murthy was talking about in his book, Together: The Healing Power Of Human Connection …
