Ashmita Banerjee

blogs from Calcutta

Death of a Bangalee
In a video that has recently gone viral in the Bengali inter-webs, noted Bengali intellectual Chandril lets loose on the moribund state of the Bengali language. To sum up his arguments: Bengali as a language is progressing to its death. This is because speaking in English and Hindi has a premium fee...
Posted on 17 January 2019 | 1:56 pm
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The Problem with Perfection
32 26 32.... That's the magic number right? Who made this the magic number? Who made fair, tall, thin, doe-like eyes, rosy lips is the ideal beauty, right? Who set this standard? I bet you desperately want to know the answers to these questions. I do too. I don't have the answers to these questions,...
Posted on 21 June 2018 | 2:51 pm
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Kolkata Book Fair - a potpourri of memories
My association with the Book Fair goes back to the days when I had just started bearing the idea of what books were. I was born in a typical Kolkata family where books are valued and archived. This is one of the many common things which run in the households of my city, the others being a compilatio...
Posted on 6 February 2018 | 7:52 pm
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