Bidisha Dam

Sri City : A few months ago, I was watching “Four Seasons,” a contemporary comedy-drama series on Netflix, loosely inspired by Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons.’ The show does not retell Vivaldi, it does not even meaningfully quote him. Instead, the music operates as an ambient emotional grammar, coding spring as flirtation, winter as emotional withdrawal, autumn as midlife reckoning, and so on. What interested me was not whether the show was “faithful” to Vivaldi, but how confidently it...

5 November, 2025 You have not been doing well recently, and I can't find it in me to reach out. I believe even if I were to show up one sunny morning, with baskets of fruits and boxes of sandesh (a Bengali sweet) , with a splitting grin and hair all oiled up, you would turn me away. It is not to say that I despise you now, or if ever. I don’t think feelings are that linear. But I do admire you. I even hope to be you someday. Probably not in the same ways you’d like. You’ve done your best with...

https://pin.it/3jEn9RJ6b Case I. The Preliminary Surgical Loss When the Union Jack came down in 1947, India was declared free, yet the...