On returning from college one fine day in 1961, a teenage daughter in Calcutta asked her father: "What is mountaineering?" Deepali Sinha had wondered .
Neeldhaja is probably the first of its kind in Bangla literature. Not just because it is the first Bangla poem to be written in the form of a letter i.e. an epistolary poem, but because it places a female figure with a rebellious demeanor as the protagonist of a historical narrative.
During the premiere of Aritra Mukherjees film at a South Kolkata cinema hall, Nandita was missing in action. Her absence gave rise to several speculations about her health.
BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya had, a few days ago, courted controversy after saying that women who wear “dirty clothes look like Surpanakha”.