- December 11, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee The Case of an “Unfortunate” Marriage: In 1889, ten-year-old Phulmoni Dasi stepped into marriage—a moment celebrated as the beginning of a “new...
- December 11, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee Unknown author. (no date) Layla visits Majnun in the wilderness [Watercolour, MS. Ouseley Add. 166, fol. 13b]. Bodleian Library, Oxford. Available at:...
- December 11, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee Shahid Kapoor in and as Haider (Bhardwaj, 2014) . Image Source:- Team Cutting Shots (2024), 4 October Available at: https://cuttingshots.com/vishal-bhardwaj-recalls-how-shahid-kapoor-impressed-him-in-this-scene-from-haider-the-way-he-was-crying-i-didnt-have-the-heart-to-shout-cut/ (Accessed 13...
- December 11, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee The illustration of the train scene in Pather Panchali, sketched by Satyajit Ray. Ray never wrote a script for the film, relying...
- December 11, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee Coca-Cola 5 Cents Advertisement, c. 1900 Image Source:- Wikimedia Commons (1900) Coca-Cola 5 cents advertisement [image]. Available at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Cocacola-5cents-1900_edit1.jpg/800px-Cocacola-5cents-1900_edit1.jpg (Accessed: 29 October...
By Ramyani Banerjee Gazi Pir/Gazir Pir on a tiger. Old Indian Arts, 2011, https://www.oldindianarts.in/2011/04/scenes-from-legend-of-gazi-scroll.html?m=1. In the tangled mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, faith often takes...
- December 11, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee Image source: Muduli, S. (2020) Cave painting at Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad, India [Photograph]. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cave-painting-at-Ajanta-Caves-Aurangabad-India_fig2_378362989 (Accessed: 18 October 2025). High above...
- December 11, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee The fat-bellied ghosts from Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. Image Source:- Ray, Satyajit, director. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. 1969, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-s-9hp5bIQ....
- December 10, 2025
By Ramyani Banerjee The Early Beginnings: (Left) Durga in Battala Print, late 19th century. Available at: https://dagworld.com/bengalwoodcut03.html [Accessed 25 September 2025]. (Right) Goddesses Durga (as...
By Ramayani Banerjee From as early as the Vedic period (pre-1000 BCE), various texts like the Rigveda, Samaveda, Shatapatha Brahmana and Taittiriya Samhita refer to...
