The Purankos project is a painstaking effort undertaken by Dr. Nrisinhaprasad Bhaduri, noted Indologist and author, to compile a Bengali encyclopedia on terms from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the major Puranas. The work will be published in several volumes, the first of which is already out. Now, in order to make the fruits of […] keyboard_arrow_right

The tradition of `Kirtan’ – symbolizing the Bhakti movement and widely practiced in Bengal, Odissa, Assam, Tripura, Manipur, Jharkhand and Vrindavan – constitutes one of the fundamental elements of our country’s pluralist and syncretic culture. Over a period of time the `Kirtan’ has also experienced significant doses of transformation in matters of composition, style and […] keyboard_arrow_right