College Street in retrospect: Culture, thought, and dissent
With the rapid modernisation and movement towards the digital, certain spaces become a material manifestation of culture and thought. One such place is Kolkata’s iconic College Street.
With the rapid modernisation and movement towards the digital, certain spaces become a material manifestation of culture and thought. One such place is Kolkata’s iconic College Street.
The historical Boipara in College Street, whose history dates back to the heady era of the Bengal Renaissance, has sprung back to life, almost in the immediate aftermath of a devastating cyclone which had exacerbated the overwhelming depression caused by the serial lockdowns.
Banerjee, the chief of the ruling TMC, garlanded Vidyasagar’s bust at a ceremonial programme at the Hare School ground in College Street.
With the campus mayhem and the subsequent desecration of Vidaysagar bust on the campus during Amit Shah roadshow triggering a political slugfest between Trinamool and the BJP, Kolkata Police are taking no chances
High-level inquiry ordered, more than 100 arrested; CM Mamata Banerjee has said a new statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar will soon replace the one allegedly vandalised by BJP supporters at Vidyasagar College
For me there are two Kolkatas. The Kolkata I lived in thirty years ago and the Kolkata I now visit.…
