In a decaying four-storey building off Beadon Street deep in the bowels of north Kolkata’s Hatibagan lives a star. After a lifetime of performing as mythical warrior queens and angry goddesses, he has ...

Blending biography with evocative vignettes, Chapal Rani traces the career of Bengali stage actor Chapal Bhaduri and his ...

I am no longer as beautiful as I used to be, he says with a twinkle that went back to the 1960s and sparked memories in my head of this once- and ever-beautiful woman-man: Chapal Rani. The reigning ...

In mid-20th Century Bengal in eastern India, some of the biggest female stars on stage were actually men. Foremost among them was Chapal Bhaduri - better known as Chapal Rani - the reigning "queen" of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. For Indian actor Chapal Bhaduri, the last man known ...

Jatra, a form of folk theatre popular across West Bengal and Odisha, dates back to the rise of Vaishnavism and the Bhakti movement during the 16th century. The followers of the movement would sing and ...

The book is about Bengali stage actor Chapal Bhaduri. Roy has previously nominated for the 2016 DSC Prize for his debut novel Don’t Let Him Know. It was a full house, our home at 13/1C Dalimtala Lane, ...