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Victoria Memorial

Silent screams of nostalgia

An exhibition of sketches on Kolkata by illustrator-sculptor Jacques Servières invokes emotions for the city dwellers and provides a glimpse to the foreigners

Wounds that will never heal

As old buildings are razed to ground overnight, they disappear into rubble and with it a piece of the city’s history, culture and way of life too vanishes. In a documentary titled Khawto (The Wound) lensman Bijoy Chowdhury captures the demolition of one nondescript old house to tell a story of a city losing its identity.