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Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Humans of Calcutta

A page made by Soham Ghosh, a class 12 Student, just to cut out boredom, turned into something big. A fast growing photo blog with 4 people as its core team, all class 12 students in a city school. Inspired by the same source as other ‘Humans’ pages, Humans of New York, this page follows the footsteps of Brandan Stanton. These students of G.D. Birla Centre of Education, are on their path to success, with many a stories uploaded and more to come. Recently made up a new team, to cover up the whole of Kolkata.

Brat Dawgz

Brat Dawgz

Members:

• Akshit Dodia

• Manish Chettri

• Arijit Das

• Noel Murmu

Brat Dawgz is a new ‘breaking’ crew in Kolkata. Manish and Akshit both were solo dancers and they decided to start a new breaking crew in Calcutta because the scene here is pretty much nascent. So, on 1st May, we started this out. Brat Dawgz as in ‘Brats’, we all are brats here, and ‘Dawgz’, it kind of symbolizes hip-hop. They all work out together to do all their music to choreography. 4 people in the crew, 4 different religions, almost from 4 corners of the city, these people came together through their dance acquaintances and competitions. They call themselves a family, with 4 different esp. They are confident to go high and stand out among other crews because they practice everyday.

-Sonket Mukherjee

Saturday, 5 July 2014

Crafts of Kammotionn

Crafts of Kammotionn

CKN is a hip-hop dance crew of Kolkata and they earned the title ‘Best Dance Crew’ in Kolkata in the dance battle 'Rasta Jam 2011'. Starting from a rivalry between two best dance crews of Kolkata, the convergence of the two brought into being ‘THE’ dance crew of Kolkata. Dancing since 13th March 2011, they stand strong with only a 1 or 2 loss. Many changes came through their line-up but everyone in this group from the very first, till now, remain as a complete family.

Face to Face With Aryani Banerjee

From a student to a journalist, a journalist to an author, Aryani Banerjee has just published her first book. After finishing her schooling from St. Paul’s, Aryani studied political science and Journalism- film studies from the St. Xavier’s Calcutta. Then she did her masters from Times School Of Journalism, New Delhi. After a long journey Aryani pens down her first book and she shares some of her memories with us.

In Conversation with Gaurav Dashputra

How was the journey from being a doctor to an aspiring author?

It was very smooth. It was never an either or scenario for me. I had a creative side of me that wanted to tell stories and I wanted to fulfill that calling. So, that is how the first book came into being because finally I had got a story that I really want to tell.

Interview: RJ Sayani

1) We all are fond of listening to the radio, what makes it so special are you people, the Radio Jockeys. So what made you choose this as your profession?

I honestly never thought of taking up radio jockeying as a career. Even though I did study journalism and films in college and wanted to be a part of the social media. But Radio Mirchi happened to me at a time when I was willing to experiment. Thank God back then I took the right decision, because honestly I love and enjoy doing my job.