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Calcutta Confusion: February 2014
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Sunday, February 23, 2014. Having kept quiet for a long time, I return with a post that has little original substance. As I often do in my spare time, I was reading Radharaman Mitra's Kolikata Darpan. Vol II. The second volume was long out of print until very recently when Subarnarekha brought it back. In a chapter titled 'The House of the Two Italians' Radharaman quotes from Abanindranath Tagore's Jorasankor Dhare. It has never sounded like this before." The gentleman said, "Hush! This got me so interes...
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Calcutta Confusion: Manzato, or Annotations to Abanindranath's Jorasankor Dhaare
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Friday, May 22, 2015. Manzato, or Annotations to Abanindranath's Jorasankor Dhaare. This would qualify at best as an annotation, but the joy of tracking down details about someone whose name we read is worth sharing. In the post on Abanindranath's Jorasankor Dhaare. I'd quoted a passage that described an Italian gentleman, whose name I had transcribed with great uncertainty as "Manzata", "Mandhata", and "Manzatto". The scene was singularly moving one, which you can read following the link above. Probably...
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Calcutta Confusion: Caledonia Dock
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Friday, February 13, 2015. 1846 p. 143). Be that as it may, his ship-building and dockyard works seem fairly well-documented. The Caledonian Dock was founded as a “ Patent Slip. 8221; around 1810 by one Mr. Beauchamp. It was sold 39 years later to Tarak Nath Pramanik. Taraknath, the son of Gurucharan Pramanik, belonged to the first Calcutta family to enter the ship-building industry. Their shops, the Charitabidhan. And why did he use the Roman name for Scotland? Here is where the dock is. What a pleasant...
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Calcutta Confusion: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014. He continued to look suspiciously. An accomplice of his swooped in and explained "Vantage chaichhe, kaka. Chhere dao. Shooting korbey." This worked and quite happily he let me go up. I would be happy if someone better informed clarified this- but I thought I spotted a fair amount of impressive Art Deco architecture around the area, that have subsequently been ruined by random and unplanned extensions and suchlike. The Maghen David stee. Cathedral of the Most Holy Rosary. The D...
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Calcutta Confusion: October 2014
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Saturday, October 25, 2014. At Karunamoyee the steps have lent themselves to temporary seating for roadside eateries. This, I thought, was a lovely idea: to commemorate the kinds of visuals we see when. Raw materials for a construction project wait by the roadside for their turn to be integrated. I like to think of this as the rib-cage of the gigantic Metrosaurus. Saturday, October 18, 2014. Gari baranda: গাড়ি বারান্দা (2). On 11 March 1922 the foundation stone was laid and the building was completed in ...
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Calcutta Confusion: April 2014
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Sunday, April 27, 2014. A couple of weeks back, with poila boishakh. The Bengali New Year) just around the corner, I found myself in the midst of an enormous crowd of people, all trying to cross the Gariahat Road crossing from the Ekdalia side to the Anandamela side. It makes me happy to see so many thronging to Gariahat shortly before poila boishakh. Dada, which way is the Ekdalia puja? I suspect he didn't make himself too popular with the policeman. Labels: Bengali New Year. I first tried the Balaram D...
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Calcutta Confusion: April 2015
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Saturday, April 25, 2015. IIiv) Ah Marlowe. Umbrellas (for there was a light but sharp drizzle accompanying the wind) were being upturned left, right and centre. Many of those umbrellas had been built to suit that particular clime. Only my umbrella was unyielding, and as the Mahendra Lal Dutt tag caught my eye, I felt I could as well have been holding in my hands there some flag-like item of community pride. Monday, April 20, 2015. Joseph Emin in Calcutta (1). 8220;In the year 1726, Emin, the writer of t...
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Calcutta Confusion: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). View my complete profile. The World According to Sroyon. Envisioning the Indian City. Monsoon Assembly Air: Call for Abstracts. The Life and Times of Neelakantan. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics. Short Science Fiction Analysis.
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Calcutta Confusion: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. From time to time one comes across a text that seems so overwhelming in its implications that it's hard to talk about it. The questions of whether or not the divine, the truly sacred is mechanically, or digitally, reproducible have been long asked and answered. I'll quote a passage from Debganer Marte Agaman. The Gods Come to Earth. They proceeded to another spot, where Narayan enquired, “Varun, what house is this? What do you say, Grandpa? Brahma: What’s the harm? This darkne...
