Kolkata's leading bookstore celebrates Women's Day with musical drama nil

Kolkata's leading bookstore celebrates Women's Day with musical drama

by IBNS 08 Mar 2015, 04:54 pm

Kolkata, Mar 8 (IBNS): Story, a bookstore in Kolkata from Primarc Group of Companies, celebrated the International Womens Day by bringing together Dr. Sudeshna Basu along with other eminent personalities Dolly Basu, Anashua Majumdar and Biblab Dasgupta in one common platform for I am not a mother - nohot mata, on Sunday.

‘I am not a mother - nohot mata’ is a musical drama and discussion conceptualized and scripted by Sudeshna Basu to explore the various layers defining the identity of a woman.
 
Sudeshna Basu is a mathematician by trainee and she is a well known face in the world of Rabindra Sangeet


The event focused on the topical issues like how society perceives a woman in different roles like that of a mother, wife, and daughter but does one want to see what goes on inside a woman’s mind, what is her identity? 
 
This program explored and rediscovered a woman’s soul through writings of Maya Angelou who asserts “I am a phenomenal woman”, Virginia Wolf who believes that a woman needs “..a room of one’s own" and Elizabeth Gilbert who realizes “I don’t want to be married anymore. I don’t want to live in this big house. I don’t want to have a baby.”
 
The discussion explored the relationship between Virginia Wolf and Victoria Ocampo. The program also transcended and connected to Tagore-an heroines who were bold and beautiful and never played the role of a mother.

Story is eastern India’s largest standalone bookstore covering an area of 15000 sq feet. Story aims to become the country's best bookstore and eventually a pilgrimage for all book-lovers


The store has a massive collection of books of all genres and a dedicated floor for children. Through innovative technology and outstanding customer service Story provides more than 50000 titles. The best basket of collectible pens and writing accessories is available in the 'Pen & ink' section. 
 
The 'art street section' offers art material and accessories, 'Gift it' section has bountiful of special gift items, greetings section boasts of a wide range of all reasons greeting cards whereas the 'Paper shop & stationery' section has a comprehensive range of house paper and stationery materials of different kinds.

Primarc owns and operates over 45 stores across various formats across East India.  Its flagship Raymond shop at Poddar Court, Kolkata has consistently been the highest selling store in India for 16 years.  Its realty division has recently pioneered the concept of environment friendly Green buildings across MIG & HIG segments in Bengal, with its flaghsip project Astitva being nominated as the first GOLD rated residential building in West Bengal by IGBC.