Debdutta Gupta
He is one of the most respected art historians of our time with knowledge of almost all the disciplines of art. A part time professor of the Rabindra Bharati University, Debdutta has substantial research work behind him and has been a regular contributor in almost all daily newspapers and magazines in India.
Gaganendranath gave a rainy touch to Rabindranath Tagore’s Jibonsmriti
Rains inspired artists of Bengal
Bengal was the seat of ceramic industry and porcelain dolls during British ...
Who bought these dolls?
Even Shiv-Parvati litho-art of Bengal got a British aristocratic touch!
Chor Bagan Art Studio humanized mythological deities
Satyajit Ray made a bride of Jorasanko Thakurbari sing for his movie
How Amiya Tagore came out of the andarmahal to sing for Kanchenjungha
Subho Thakur, the rebel of Jorasanko who created Pansy & Piko
Why Subho Thakur denied his ‘Tagore’ link
Emerald Bower is a witness to Bengalis who had accepted British crown!
They treated the colonisers like God!
Chugging along the oldest railway track of Kolkata! Where? Behala!
How British built Kalighat-Falta Rail route for pilgrims
Great Mughal poet Mirza Ghalib’s love affair with Kolkata
GB traces the house where Ghalib lived during his stay in Kolkata
Famous Doll series of Bikash Bhattacharjee is a silent witness to Bengal’...
Why did the artist protest through dolls?
Famous painter Zoffany’s Last Supper adorns a Kolkata church!
How did a world-famous painting land up in Kolkata?
Goddess of Love, Venus, found her way as Goddess Lakshmi in Bengali househo...
Her statues adorned Kolkata’s mansions!
Why Devi Saraswati found her place on gramophone records?
Devi Saraswati found a new avatar in Calcutta in the 1900s
How a Marwari business in the 1890s protected modesty of Kolkata’s women!...
Travel to city’s Zenana Bathing Ghat to know more
What secret lies behind the ornate façade of Medicine House on B.K. Pal Av...
House where explosives for freedom fighters were made behind medicine bottles
Dal Madal cannon and the saga of Bengal’s illustrious ironsmiths
How a group of indigenous ironsmiths made the largest cannon
Greco-Roman lion taps still found on Kolkata streets!
Lion taps were installed by British Royal Water Supply
Kabiraj Ganga Prasad defied the British and popularised ayurveda
Ramakrishna Paramhansa described him as a doctor with a Midas touch
Handwritten Indian Constitution by Nandalal Bose! Rare Gem!
GB tribute to Nandalal Bose on his birth anniversary
Incredible tale of making Salil Chowdhury’s Pagol Hawa
How singer Jatileshwar was stumped by Salil da
Let’s go behind Corinthian pillars of Metropolitan Building
Did you know Subho Tagore left Joransanko and live here?
The U.S. Military Photographer who captured the city
Photographs of Calcutta during second world war
