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Every guitar lover should listen to these 10 amazing Finger style Guitarists!

10 Incredible Finger style Guitar Players You Have to Check Out! With the coming of Australian guitar player John Butler, and Delhi based electro-acoustic songwriter DhruvVisvanath, Calcutta seems to have whole heartedly accepted the modern finger style guitar movement. With more artists of the genre looking to drop in at the city in the coming months, here are...

Check out these 5 designers from North East India who are making it BIG!

5 Designers from Northeast India that you should check out! With the Pujo high slowly fading away, we all know that we need to get back to our work-mode and keep away those much prized Pujo outfits. We get it, the hangover is still there, but we have a cure for it! Here’s a list of five Northeast-India based fashion labels to help…

Surprise your family and friends by serving homemade Shahi Tukda, a delicious Hyderabadi sweet that no mishti lover will forget!

Bring out Hyderabadi Shahi Tukda from your kitchens to celebrate Bijoya One of the things that can lift up our mood when we are experiencing post-Pujo depression is ‘Bijoya’. It is a generally accepted fact that the main reason of being happy about Bijoya is all the sweet dishes which we devour almost every day till Kali Pujo. When your friends and family are busy…

Here is a list of 5 films starring Madhabi Mukherjee that every cinema lover should watch!

5 Madhabi Mukherjee films that you need to watch! Bengali cinema has been blessed with a few good actors, most of them from the yesteryears. While we remember Suchitra Sen, Sharmila Tagore, Sabitri Chatterjee, Supriya Devi and some others quite frequently as the leading ladies of Bengali Cinema, we tend to sometimes ignore that one other actor who…

Two Marvel series are out for viewing and some more are coming you way! Check out which superheroes you will get to watch on TV

Marvel’s ongoing and Upcoming TV ventures that you shouldn’t miss! The Marvel Comic Universe has in recent years gone beyond the pages of comic books and into other mediums like cinema and TV series. In the age of TV series like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, True Detective, Narcos, House of Cards and Boardwalk Empire, superheroes have carved out their own follow...

Bhutan has always remained a tourist destination for us. Serena Chopra, through her photographs, paints a different picture of this nation, its people and culture.

Explore Bhutan through Serena Chopra’s lens at The Harrington Street Art Centre! Bhutan, a landlocked country between India and China, has always been a sort of mystery to people outside it. Except its picturesque landscape, its kings and queens and Gross National Happiness index, we really do not know much about the country and its people. It has somehow always remained just…

PerForm - a fascinating exhibition of sculptures that are the manifestations of dreams by Ram Kumar Manna, and paintings that are the stories of performers by Dipankar Sankrityayan - is on display at Range till 22nd October.

PerForm – a dose to escape reality! "[A] dream never tells us whether its elements are to be interpreted literally or in a figurative sense or whether they are to be connected to the material of the dream- thoughts directly or through the intermediary of some interpolated phraseology." Sigmund Freud, The interpretation of Dreams …

Ronny Sen from our Kolkata wins Getty Instagram Grant for his work on the coal mines of Jharia, in Jharkhand, where fire has been burning underground for more than 100 years.

Ronny Sen from Kolkata wins Getty Instagram grant. It is of no surprise to anyone who is a regular Instagram user that it has slowly become a tool for photographers of all genres to showcase their work and share it with the people around them and across the globe. While there are various uses of the app for different people, Instagram is…

After the second albums of The Bodhisattwa Trio and The Neel Sarkar Project(NSP), AMUZE Records releases ShredxXx's debut EP. Check it out!

ShredxXx EP out– Shredding it with a Sitar! ShredxXx is a one of a kind band in that, where other bands from the glam metal/thrash metal world would rely on heavy riffs backing a face-melting guitar solo, shrieking the notes in the highest available registers, the centre stage here is given to Swarnabha Gupta’s sitar. The band released thei...

Here is a list of 5 films by Hayao Miyazaki that every cinema lover should watch!

5 Hayao Miyazaki films that you need to watch! In 2002, Roger Ebert, an acclaimed film critic had proposed that Hayao Miyazaki is most probably the best animation filmmaker in history, admiring his depth and artistry of films. He was right. For cinephiles, especially the ones who have a certain obsession with Japanese films, Miyazaki ranks a...

Designer Tri Paul brings you a wide range of apparels in her exhibition at Hindustan Park. Explore more in our story.

This Durga Pujo infuse Gamcha into your day-style statement! With Pujo almost a few days away, here’s your chance at some last-minute shopping which would give your style a cut above the rest. Calcutta-based designer Tri Paul is here to showcase some exclusive apparels at Tri’s Exhibition 2016, to be organized at Hindustan Park, Kolkata. The designer who le...

Pujo is coming and its time for men to roll up their sleeves and get some online shopping done! These 5 brands should provide you with all kinds of exclusive choices in ethnic wear!

5 Ethnic brands for Men who want to stand out in Durga Puja crowd! Just a few days back, we brought a list of 5 ethnic saree brands with a thirty day countdown to Mahalaya. But we couldn't ignore the men when it comes to the pujo shopping enthusiasm. We know that with your work schedules getting busier and the comfort of boxers setting in deep into your…