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The film depicts the story of Basanti, a young village woman, pitted against two men in a small town environment of the sixties. After the death of her husband Mathura, she starts dreaming of a new life with her former lover Dhananjay. He fails to respond forcing Basanti into the lonely life within a widow's bondage.
Basanti is one of the main deltaic islands in the Sundarbans region, bounded by the Matla and Vidyadhari rivers. Sonakhali, opposite Basanti, is 100 km from Kolkata. Sonakhali and Basanti is connected by Hogol Bridge. [6] Basanti Road is linked to the Eastern metropolitan bypass near Science City in Kolkata. Sundarbans bypass project, costing ...
As per the 2011 census, in Basanti CD block, amongst the 64 inhabited villages, 1 village did not have a school, 55 villages had two or more primary schools, 41 villages had at least 1 primary and 1 middle school and 21 villages had at least 1 middle and 1 secondary school. [32] Sukanta College was established at Bhangonkhali in 2008. [33]
Lok Jaagar Gayika Vidushi Dr.Basanti Bisht was born in Luwani village/dewal block of Chamoli district bordering Kumaon Uttarakhand in 1953. She married an artillery soldier at the age of 15 and remained a housewife for the large part of her life. Though her professional singing began much later, when she learned music in Jalandhar, Punjab. But ...
Subhas Naskar of RSP won the Basanti Assembly constituency from 1982 to 2006, defeating Amal Kanti Roy of BJP in 2006, [14] Jayanta Sarkar of AITC in 2001 [13] and 1996, [12] Bipin Behari Sardar of INC in 1991 [11] and 1987, [9] and Jnanendranath Majumdar of INC in 1982. [10] Kalipada Barman of RSP defeated Chittaranjan Naskar of INC in 1977 ...
Sonakhali is a village within the jurisdiction of the Basanti police station in the Basanti CD block in the Canning subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography
The Sundarban region remains the most backward region in terms of quality of life. As per rural household survey in 2005, the proportion of households in the South 24 Parganas with poverty rates below poverty line was 34.11%, way above the state and national poverty ratios. [ 6 ]
One of the Malos living on the banks of the Titas was Dinnath Malo's younger daughter Basanti. In the village of Basanti, there were two right-handed boys named Kishore and Subal. Both of them make a chowari for Basanti's Maghamandal Vrat. [a] As Subal's father died, he used to fish nets in the river with Kishore. Kishore was three years older ...