During the golden age of adhunik Bangla gaan, the songs were the products of highly sensitive minds. The Sixties onwards, it degenerated into a cacophonous mix of saxophone riffs and thrums on the ...

Joi is an electronic band from London with a Bengali sound — tabla drums, flutes, and other ornamentation woven in with the dance beats. Its latest album is We Are Three.

There’s a similar association made between Bimal (Kali Banerjee), the cab-driver hero of Ajantrik, and his own broken-down car. The fact that this car has a name, Jagaddal, and is even included in ...