Banani Dey Music Festival: Dola Lagilo Dokhinaro Bone Bone (Nazrul)

Banani Dey Music Festival: Kabar Jiyaaratey Tumi Jao Modinaye (Nazrul)

Banani Dey Music Festival: Shoi, Bhalo Kore Binod Beni Bnadhiya de (Nazrul)

Banani Dey Music Festival: Introduction

In the spirit of the Renaissance ideas we have discussed on the blog throughout this year, we will do something new for the next few weeks … a music festival. We’ve never done this before, but I am delighted to introduce you to an artist whose mastery of two major genres of Bengali music –

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Menlo Park Renaissance (Part 4)

If we can bring together the Silicon Valley–style entrepreneurship, with taste, style, culture, food, wine, and art in a well-thought-through city center, Menlo Park can indeed become that eclectic creative cauldron so rare and elusive. Housing this creativity should be a series of great public spaces, terraces, patios, plazas and boulevards.

Menlo Park Renaissance (Part 3)

Parts of Silicon Valley are extremely beautiful. My favorite is Woodside. However, other parts of Silicon Valley are plain vanilla. San Jose, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Carlos, and Redwood City – these towns have no style and not much to offer in terms of aesthetics. Silicon Valley has never really paid attention to style or

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Menlo Park Renaissance (Part 2)

Perhaps of all the American states, California, because of its wine country, has placed the most emphasis on cultivating a food and wine culture. Among our natural advantages, we count great local produce and local wine. In fact, Napa Valley has become one of the country’s greatest tourist destinations.

Menlo Park Renaissance (Part 1)

When I first wrote the piece Silicon Valley: The Next Decade, I did not think that an opportunity to implement the ideas expressed in it would come so soon. Even as I wrote the follow-on piece, The Next European Renaissance, I had not yet started the subsequent discussions with the Menlo Park City Council. However,

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