Analytics with fractals In the mid 70’s when people were playing around with early versions of computers, a mathematician was plotting the results of an equation containing a complex number, in a reiterative manner. And to his surprise, the results were quite fascinating: the patterns that emerged were beautiful to look at; but more interestingly, […] keyboard_arrow_right

আমরা প্রক্ষেপবাদের নিন্দাপঙ্কে তিলক টেনে এটাই ঠিক করেছি যে, মহাভারতের একটা ‘আনকাট’ সংস্করণ আমরা তৈরি করবো এবং তা বাংলায় একটা জনবোধ্য অনুবাদও করবো। সবচেয়ে বড়ো কথা, লক্ষশ্লোকী মহাভারতের অরণ্যের মধ্যে বার বার যে হাহাকার ওঠে – শ্লোকটা তো খুঁজে পাচ্ছি না। শ্লোকের দ্বিতীয় পংক্তি মনে আছে, প্রথম পংক্তি মনে নেই – কী করে খুঁজে পাবো […] keyboard_arrow_right

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

Communication with computing machinery has become increasingly ‘chatty’ these days: Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and many more dialogue systems have hit the consumer market on a broader basis than ever, but do any of them truly notice our emotions and react to them like a human conversational partner would? In fact, the discipline of automatically recognizing […] keyboard_arrow_right

In North-Indian-Music-System(NIMS), tabla is mostly used as percussive accompaniment for vocal music in polyphonic compositions like Hindi filmy music, bhajan or devotional songs etc. The human auditory system uses perceptual grouping of musical elements and easily filters the tabla component, thereby decoding prominent rhythmic features like tala, tempo or laya from a polyphonic-composition. For Western […] 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