Prof. Aloke Kumar - Articles

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Children, by now you know that Sukumar Ray wrote Nonsense Poems and illustrated them. In fact these illustrations are famous not only in Bengal, India but in the world.

His illustrations are held in great esteem throughout the world ranking among the greatest who illustrated from different cultures used humour and nonsense to create lasting works that have delighted audiences for generations.

Did Tipu Sultan Stay at the Tolly Club House?

Most members, tell their friends and guests that Tipu Sultan stayed at the Tolly premise. And Tolly Club House was his home. The popular myth is further talked about these days with the placement of the INTACH Heritage Plaque at the Club House. The fact is that Tipu Sultan never came to Calcutta. It is his son Prince Ghulam Mohammad along with members of his family that stayed here.

Nirmal Chandra Kumar

My father, Nirmal Chandra Kumar, born in Calcutta, Bengal in 1917, and was the eldest of seven children. After graduating from school at Mitra Institute, he went on to study at Bangabasi College. My grandfather was a trader and the family had a large Departmental Store at Shyambazar Crossing and a home at 52, Mohan Bagan Lane. My father grew up to be an avid reader, hungry for knowledge and to make a living, he worked several odd jobs and tried his hand at writing, which in his own words he said he failed miserably at.

Nirmal Chandra Kumar

I was extremely embarrassed by my father. Not knowing what he did as a profession was a constant ‘nag’ in my mind. When my school friends asked me I used to fumble.

Special Issue on Mother Teressa Indian Express. Front Page.

My ancestral home at Taltala, Kolkata, is near Nirmala Shishu Bhavan (Mother Teresa's Home for the Children) and I have seen her closely. She was no different than the many sisters who went about their work in my locality, except that she was old and shriveled, but not infirm.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (An Obituary) | Published in The Telegraph - 19th April, 2014

One warm afternoon, sometime in April 1982, Mrinal Sen received a phone call from the Cannes film festival’s Gilles Jacob, who requested him to join the jury.

Hungarian Sausage in Calcutta | Bengali | Publised in Sanbad Pratidin - 30th January, 2019

Nirmal Chandra Kumar was an antiquarian and visited the different second hand book shops at Free School Street for Jewish ephemera: Judaica print, Judaica Old Litho Die Cut, Bar mitzvah cards, Vintage Hebrew and Yiddish Letters.

Climate Change | Bengali | Published in Eie Somoy - 16th December, 2009

Evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel became the first person to define the term ecology in his work published in 1866, entitled 'General Morphology of Organisms'.

Claud Levi Strauss

Whenever I take the name of Lévi-Strauss, out comes the retort: Off course I know Levi Strauss the German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.

Direct Hits | Published in Sunday Magazine, Business Standard - 6th January, 1991

A new concept in marketing is gaining increasing ground every day. Aloke Kumar takes a look at the phenomenon

Birth of a City - How Sutanuti villagge grew into a metropolis

How Sutanuti village grew into a metropolis

Branding comes to Bourse | Published in Business Standard

When Reliance Petrochemicals asked Mudra to design a promotion campaign for its Rs 593-crore convertible debentures issue in 1988, little did either party realise that they were on the verge of making advertising history.

'An Aquatinted Voyage' - Story of the Daniells | Published in the Times of India - Sunday 23rd November, 1986

Thomas and William Daniell were perhaps no geniuses but, they had sufficient talent and application to take an honourable place among their fellow artists.

Jean Riboud (An Obituary)

Jean Riboud is no more. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Schlumberger for the past 20 years, he died on 20 October, 1985, at the age of 65. But "the Schlumberger spirit" - a sense of shared values, a common culture that unites people - lives on.

The Art of Masters - Thomas & William Daniell | The Telegraph Colour Magazine - 12th January, 1986

The uncle and nephew pair of Thomas and William Daniell landed in Calcutta 200 years ago and, for seven years, explored India as few others before them had done. Their sketches and paintings encompass all that is picturesque in the country, from the ghats of Varanasi, to the waterfalls of the south. This is the story of their discovery of India.

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