Vidyarthy Chatterjee

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy |Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan turned 75 recently. He has been described as “a kind of phenomenon in that he has all along faced official apathy, disapproval and, at times, censorship and open discrimination”. Perhaps, this is how it should be for any creative artist grappling with political abuses, social injustices, and economic disparities in a determined effort “to educate, expose, inform, reform and effect change in a resistant and otherwise unenlightened world”.

1 month ago | outlookindia.com | Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Jinit Parmar |Asha Kumari |Jheelum Basu

Priya Jhingan, first woman cadet to join the Indian Army Photo: X/@SSBCrack Priya Jhingan, first woman cadet to join the Indian Army Photo: X/@SSBCrack While patriarchal narratives prefer painting women as delicate creatures, back in 1992, India was fortunate to have Priya Jhingan, a girl with the grit to become the first-ever female cadet of the Indian Army.

Jan 21, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Vikas Meshram |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Uday Kumar Saw

Patha,  the plateau  area of Chitrakut district in Uttar Pradesh, is an area that has been often in news due to water scarcity. When I visited this area over four decades back at the time of a severe drought there was extreme distress in the widely scattered hamlets of weaker sections, and it was clear that an ambitious and expensive project with generous foreign aid had failed to provide much needed relief from thirst and water scarcity.

Jan 17, 2025 | countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |Samina Salim |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Bharat Dogra

Translation by Zeenat Khan A portrait of an unknown woman Artist: Rabindranath Tagore Parjaay: Prem (1) Upa-parjaay: Gaan Taal: Jhaptaal Raag: Khambaj Written on: 1895 Swarabitan: 10 Notation by: Jyotirindranath Tagore চিত্ত পিপাসিত রে গীতাসুধার তরে ॥ তাপিত শুষ্কলতা বর্ষণ যাচে যথা কাতর অন্তর মোর লুণ্ঠিত ধূলি ‘পরে গীতসুধার তরে ॥ আজি বসন্তনিশা, আজি অনন্ত তৃষা, আজি এ জাগ্রত প্রাণ তৃষিত চকোর-সমান গীতসুধার তরে। চন্দ্র অতন্দ্র নভে জাগিছে সুপ্ত ভবে অন্তর বাহির আজি কাঁদে উদাস স্বরে গীতসুধার তরে ॥ My...

Dec 2, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Dan Corjescu |Vidyarthy Chatterjee |Musharraf Hussain |Samina Salim

Once we used to live together,perhaps like a joint family,or maybe like the inmates of the same prison,which Lord Mountbatten probably knew very well. Our history of sharing is of many years,and even today we share many things between us —memories, emotions, friendliness, and enmities. We also share borders marked by barbed wire,where you often hangthe bullet-pierced bodies of our Felanis.