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PODCAST

The Coffee House Experience

The Coffee House Experience

A Podcast to discuss things pertaining to Bengal and Bengali people. Our informal discussions (a.k.a. Adda in Bengali) are long, topical and largely spontaneous. We mostly talk in Bengali and occasionally in English. The channel is run by three Engineering graduates from Jadavpur University, namely, Pratyay Mukherjee, Srinjoy Ganguly and Soumik Ghosh.

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Ep#33 | Bangla Podcast | Garga Chatterjee | Bengali...

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2023/03/24

Garga Chatterjee, a Harvard PhD and currently working as a faculty at Indian Statistical Institute, is known more for his fervent support for Bengali Nationalism and rigorous opposition to "Hindi Imperialism". He, as the founding member and general secretary of Bangla Pokkho, constantly fights for rights of Bengalis within the Indian Union. Nevertheless, Bangla Pokkho often receives criticism for its oversimplified narratives, tribalism, and inciting anti-Bengali sentiments. In this podcast, Garga

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Ep#32 | Bangla Podcast | “Adieu Godard” & other...

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2023/01/29

Amartya Bhattacharyya, a software engineer by profession, and a film-maker by passion likes to follow unconventional approaches in making films. He is a truly independent film-maker, who also does cinematography and editing (and even make-ups) in his films. His films contain unusual ideas, abstract narratives and unique subjects. His recent film "Adieu Godard" received worldwide accolades. In this conversation he opens up about his journey in cinema, his highly unconventional and unique approaches,

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Ep#31 | Bangla Podcast | Trina Nileena Banerjee |...

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2023/01/23

Trina Nileena Banerjee, erstwhile actor and currently a faculty member at CSSS Calcutta, joins us to discuss about the history of the theatre movement in Bengal. Within the said context, we double click on the gender politics of the movement to understand how the aesthetic representations of women on stage were often at odds with their role as cultural activists in the movement. Trina's homepage: https://www.cssscal.org/faculty_trina_nileena_banerjee.php Review of Trina's book: When Silence speaks

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Ep#30 | Bangla Podcast | The Legacy of Uttam Kumar...

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2022/10/13

Sayandeb Chowdhury, an academic by profession, explored the legacy of Uttam Kumar in his book "Uttam Kumar – A Life in Cinema". In this discussion he talks about the underlying research he pursued for the book, elaborates on many of his findings and provides his perspective on the present day's cultural vacuum in Bengali society.

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EP#29 | Bangla Podcast | Absurdities of our Time -...

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2022/10/13

Debarshi, an independent journalist, writer and film-maker attempts to demystify the absurdities of the contemporary language of art and culture.

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Ep#28 | English Podcast | Creating Cinema in...

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2022/10/13

Catherine Masud, along with life-partner Tareque Masud, left a lasting imprint on Bangladeshi cinema with works like Muktir Gaan, Muktir Kotha, and Matir Moina. Catherine’s long and intriguing journey took her from the United States to Bangladesh, just when the young country was waking up to a new dawn in films, steered by a new generation of young and talented filmmakers. She had a ringside view of, and was often an active participant in heralding that dawn. Join us as we talk to Catherine about

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Ep#27 | English Podcast | History of Central Planning...

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2022/08/10

By trying to marry western-style liberal democracy with soviet-style central economic planning (that too, against the backdrop of Cold War politics), the first crop of leaders in independent India undertook a very bold experiment to say the least. The Planning Commission, with Prof PC Mahalanobis at its helm, was responsible for spearheading a lion's share of the allied efforts. While the whole construct might now seem like a relic of a past that grows more unfamiliar with every passing day, we

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Ep#26 | Bangla Podcast | From RSS to Chomsky: An...

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2022/07/30

Partha Banerjee has been inducted into RSS through his father at a very young age. However, in his early youth the ideological conflict between the RSS ideology and the liberal Bengali philosophy had started to bother him. Finally he raised a number of fundamental questions to the RSS leadership - as the answers remained unsatisfactory, he decided to quit the two decade long association and subsequently started to explore the other side of the political spectrum. Nevertheless, his long quest for a

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Ep#25 | Bangla Podcast | Aparajito and other...

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2022/07/30

Sayantan Dutta is a film critic, who writes about Bangla Cinema in his blog. Recently, one of his write-ups, which criticizes the recent film Aparajito (2022) in a unique fashion, became viral in social media. In this episode he elaborated on his criticism of this film while extending that to contemporary Bangla Cinema and Society. This episode was hosted by Soumik, Pratyay and Srinjoy. Link for Saynatan's blog: https://sayantankatha.wordpress.com/ Link for Sayntan's write-up on Aparajito:

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Ep#24 | Bangla Podcast | Game Theory in Political...

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2022/07/30

Saptarshi Mukherjee, a faculty of economics at IIT Delhi elaborately discusses Game Theory in political economy and also in everyday life in layman's term with Srinjoy and Soumik.

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Ep#23 | Bangla Podcast | Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay on...

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2022/07/30

Eminent film academician Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay talks about his journey from Engineering to Film studies, the interconnection between society and cinema starting from the "counter-culture era" of 1960s to the more "structured age" of 1990s, en route digressing into the dichotomy of cinema as art and business, impact of popular mainstream cinema, and much more.

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Ep#22 | English Podcast | Russia-Ukraine Conflict...

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2022/07/30

Pratyay and Srinjoy elaborately discuss the on-going conflict between Russia and Ukraine with eminent political scientist Rajesh Rajagopalan (JNU). This episode is in English.

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Ep#21 | Bangla Podcast | The Battle of Plassey (1757)...

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2022/07/30

SUDEEP CHAKRAVARTY is an award - winning author of bestselling works of narrative non - fiction, including Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History, The Bengalis : A Portrait of Community (shortlisted for The Hindu Prize 2018, and Tata Literature Live! Award 2018). An extensively published columnist, he has over three decades of experience in media. Sudeep has worked with major global and Indian media organisations including the Asian Wall Street Journal, where he began his

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Ep#20 | Bangla Podcast | Public Education in India...

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2022/07/30

Prof. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, a renowned economist from ISI Delhi, known for his works on public education, healthcare and rural employment discusses various issues of public education in India, including the role of public investment, politics, perception of education in society and many other things with Soumik and Pratyay.

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Ep#19 | Bangla Podcast | Nabamita Das | From Pedagogy...

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2022/07/30

While analyzing romantic relationship, friendship and the tradition of informal discussion (Adda) in and around Kolkata, Nabamita Das, a sociologist by training, realized that only a researcher's lens might not suffice to capture the fundamental essence of these intimate human expressions. Instead, she approached these quests within her personal space. Eventually, these quests, along with her musical inclination led to creation of a new musical force, Borno Anonyo. In this episode Pratyay, Soumik

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Ep#18 | Bangla Podcast | Ronny Sen | Alternative...

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2022/07/30

Born in Silchar, and brought up in Kolkata, Ronny Sen's political activism was shaped by the Bengali nationalism of Assam's Barak Valley. Already a renowned photographer, Ronny has recently ventured into film-making, and with his first full-length movie "Cat Sticks" he made a ground-breaking debut. Int his episode he opens up about all of these freely with Srinjoy and Pratyay.

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Ep#16 | Bangla Podcast | Pradipta Bhattacharyya | Up,...

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2022/07/30

Pratyay, Srinjoy and Soumik chat with one of the most popular independent film makers of Bengal, Pradipta Bhattacharyya about his life, thoughts, views and experience in making cinema.

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Ep#15 | Bangla Podcast | Maitreesh Ghatak | Universal...

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2022/07/30

Universal Basic Income is one of the very few policy proposals, which is supported by many people across the philosophical/political/economic spectrum. However, opinions differ significantly when it comes to implementation, framework and other details. In this episode Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak, (currently at London School of Economics) discusses various aspects of UBI and other things with Srinjoy and Soumik. Maitreesh Ghatak's webpage: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/GHATAK/ Maitreesh Ghatak's blog:

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Ep#14 | Bangla Podcast | Calcutta Chromosome: The two...

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2022/07/30

Diptakriti Chaudhuri, a highly successful marketing professional, maintains an amazing alternative career as a popular writer and blogger, writing regularly about movies, books, Indian societies and more. In this episode Srinjoy and Soumik pick his mind about these two shades of his life.Diptakriti's blog: https://diptakirti.blogspot.com/

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Ep#13 | Bangla Podcast | Discussion | Journey of...

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2022/07/30

In this free-flowing conversation Srinjoy, Pratyay and Soumik discusses their journey starting from Jadavpur University's ETCE department.

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