Make Calcutta Relevant Again
Make Calcutta Relevant Again, The Podcast aims to showcase the rich history, culture, and contemporary significance of the city of Calcutta.
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S3 Episode 65 | Is Everyone Really an Artist? feat. Subhadeep Guha & Deepmoy Das (opens the original)
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Two musicians who arrive from very different directions, yet meet in the same restless, questioning place. Some songs do not just play. They stop you where you stand and make you feel like they are singing about the exact street you grew up on. That is the feeling this episode chases, and it brings together two musicians who arrive at it from very different directions, yet meet in the same restless, questioning place. In this episode of Make Calcutta Relevant Again, Meghdut sits down with Subhad
S3 Episode 64 | The Robin Hood Bengal Forgot feat. Trinanjan Chakraborty & Srinwantu Dey (Paperclip) (opens the original)
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There is a nightclub in Mexico City, invitation only, and it is named after a Bengali revolutionary. There is a nightclub in Mexico City so exclusive you cannot get in without an invitation, where some of the biggest DJs in the world come to play, and it is named after a Bengali. His name was MN Roy, and before the club, before the legend, he was a revolutionary from Bengal who went on to found the Communist Party of Mexico, moved through the city's most elite circles, and lived quietly on the u
S3 Episode 63 | She Made Calcutta Wearable feat. Parama Gangopadhyay (opens the original)
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When Paroma Ganguly left the law in 2015, nobody in her world could quite understand it. She was a fourth generation lawyer, trained under some of the finest legal minds of her generation, holding down a top law firm salary and the kind of security a Bengali family prizes above almost everything. And she walked away from all of it to sit with embroiderers and tailors and figure out how to tell the story of a city on half a metre of fabric. In this episode of Make Calcutta Relevant Again, Meghdut
S3 Episode 62 | He Is Training 10 Young Leaders in Calcutta For Free feat. Indranil Das (opens the original)
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In this episode, Meghdut Roy Chowdhury sits down with Indranil Das to talk about the one layer of every company nobody protects, middle management, the bridge between the executives and the team, and why he believes AI and technology are going to hit that layer hardest. They talk about staying grounded when success makes it easy not to be. They talk about his two sons, one in Sweden and one in Canada, and the conversation every Bengali parent abroad eventually has about whether their children wi
S3 Episode 61 | The Man Keeping City's #independentmusic Alive for 14 Years feat. Nishit Arora (opens the original)
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The very first thing he asked Princeton Club for was not money or a stage or a sound system. He asked them to drop the dress code. In 2012, Nishit Arora walked into Princeton Club with an idea for a weekly night of original music. If independent music was going to happen properly in this city, he told them, then shorts and chappals had to be allowed through the door. That one small negotiation tells you almost everything about how he has worked in the fourteen years since. In this episode, Meghd
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