What : KCC Baithakkhana: A Bengali Literary Meet Where : Kolkata Centre For Creativity When : 18th April 2026 ...
What: KCC Baithakkhana: A Bengali
Literary Meet
Where: Kolkata Centre For
Creativity
When: 18th April 2026
Timings: 2:30 pm Onwards
What to Expect: Kolkata Centre for
Creativity returns with KCC Baithakkhana | Chapter 3,
a three-day Bengali literary meet that brings together
writers, performers, scholars, and audiences around the theme of সীমানা / Border.
Curated by Chandril
Bhattacharya and Sanchari Mookherjee, this edition looks
at how boundaries, both seen and unseen, shape our lives and creative work. The
programme includes talks, discussions, debates, readings, performances,
and music, focusing on how borders appear in literature and popular
media.
Highlights: Day 2
·
Art film & Commercial film: Does border exist?
Speakers: Anjan Dutt, Chanchal Chowdhury
Moderator: Chandril Bhattacharya
·
Barbed
boundaries: Divided Bengal
Speakers: Semanti Ghosh, Jayanta Sengupta
Moderator: Shishir Roy
· The day I crossed the order-border: Having a smoke
in class 9
Speakers: Anirban Chakraborty, Jojo Mukherjee, Abir Chatterjee, Ishaa Saha
Moderator: Prithwi Bose
· The twilight of poetry: Beyond the bounds of
meaning
Speaker: Joy Goswami
· Toba Tek Singh: Borders in Manto’s stories
Speakers: Srijit Mukherji, Abdul Kafi, Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri
Moderator: Srikumar Chattopadhyay
· Beyond the fence: Prose & verse
Speakers: Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Srijato
Moderator: Debnita Chakraborty
· Dohai Ali: Partition in the films of Ritwik Ghatak
Speakers: Kamaleswar Mukherjee, Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay
Moderator: Sudeb Sinha
· Border and its stories by Somak Ghosh, Deepanjan
Ghosh
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