Streets of Kolkata
Kolkata also known as Calcutta is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly river, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port as well as its sole major riverine port. As of 2011, the city had 4.5 million residents; the urban agglomeration, which comprises the city and its suburbs, was home to approximately 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India.
As of 2008, its economic output as measured by gross domestic product ranked third among South Asian cities, behind Mumbai and Delhi. As a growing metropolitan city in a developing country, Kolkata confronts substantial urban pollution, traffic congestion, poverty, overpopulation, and other logistic and socioeconomic problems.
In the late 17th century, the three villages that predated Kolkata were ruled by the Nawab of Bengal under Mughal suzerainty. After the Nawab granted the East India Company a trading license in 1690, the area was developed by the Company into an increasingly fortified mercantile base. Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah occupied Kolkata in 1756, and the East India Company retook it in the following year and by 1772 assumed full sovereignty.
Under East India Company and later under the British Raj, Kolkata served as the capital of India until 1911, when its perceived geographical disadvantages, combined with growing nationalism in Bengal, led to a shift of the capital to New Delhi. The city was a centre of the Indian independence movement; it remains a hotbed of contemporary state politics. Following Indian independence in 1947, Kolkata—which was once the centre of modern Indian education, science, culture, and politics—witnessed several decades of relative economic stagnation. Since the early 2000s, an economic rejuvenation has led to accelerated growth.
As a nucleus of the 19th- and early 20th-century Bengal Renaissance and a religiously and ethnically diverse centre of culture in Bengal and India, Kolkata has established local traditions in drama, art, film, theatre, and literature that have gained wide audiences. Many people from Kolkata—among them several Nobel laureates—have contributed to the arts, the sciences, and other areas, while Kolkata culture features idiosyncrasies that include distinctively close-knit neighbourhoods (paras) and freestyle intellectual exchanges (adda). West Bengal's share of the Bengali film industry is based in the city, which also hosts venerable cultural institutions of national importance, such as the Academy of Fine Arts, the Victoria Memorial, the Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum, and the National Library of India. Though home to major cricketing venues and franchises, Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by giving importance to association football and other sports.
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Audiences on Ranan's Movement Moments
The Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta and Harrington Street Arts Centre presented an exhibition of dance photography from Germany - 'Frozen in Time' - from 4 to 16 April 2011 at the Harrington Street Arts Centre premises. As one of the associated events, Ranan conceived Movement / Moments - a site-specific, interactive performance playing with the contradictions of motion in dance and stillness in photography responding to the images displayed in the exhibition. We took the audience on a playful journey through the evocative exhibition space with carefully chosen, reworked and spatially placed excerpts from our various productions.
Some responses from the audience - fluctuating audio quality is regretted. Excerpts from the evening available in a separate video.
Photographs here -
Ranan's Movement Moments - excerpts (9 April 2011)
The Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta and Harrington Street Arts Centre presented an exhibition of dance photography from Germany -- 'Frozen in Time' -- from 4 to 16 April 2011 at the latter's premises. As one of the associated events, Ranan conceived 'Movement / Moments' - a site-specific, interactive performance playing with the contradictions of motion in dance and stillness in photography responding to the images displayed in the exhibition.
'Movement / Moments' took a tongue-in-cheek look at these apparent opposites, taking the audience on a journey through the evocative exhibition space, drawing from various Ranan productions spanning the areas of Kathak choreography, dance and theatre, and video-dance.
Some excerpts. Audience responses are available in a separate video.
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*KOLKATA VLOG* Stone - a spell-binding photography exhibition by the Kounteya Sinha
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Debojyoti Mishra is back with an art exhibition ↑↑ Shadows Of Songs
After a gap of seven years, this is the first time that musician Debojyoti Mishra is going to host a solo painting and installation exhibition. Featuring 130 paintings and five installations, the exhibition will take place at Harrington Street Centre. Starting from August 30, it will go on till September 8. Even though Debojyoti doesn’t exhibit his painting skills as regularly as his expertise as a musician, he has earned himself a name in the art circuit for his paintings after the solo exhibition he hosted back in 2012.
The exhibition, called Shadows of Songs, deals with the regimentation of music. “Music is supposed to be a free space, but in today’s time, even that is regimented. I have tried to find liberty of music through my paintings,” said Debojyoti. Along with that, he has used human migration as one of the predominant topics of his paintings. Music and faces will be commonly found in his works.
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