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My Second Cinema Experience

As I perambulate around in the memoirs of my childhood, the memory of my second cultural outing fills me with delirious joy, in a time when the world was simpler, the pace relaxed and the neon was brighter. It was an epiphanic moment that transpired six months following my maiden fiasco, where my technical know-how in the world of visual storytelling was put to the test. But this time around, I was accompanied by a wealthy entourage of distinguished erudite persons, including maternal and avuncular figures, at the Swapan puri-the edifice of dreams of Bansberia-a picturesque township in the district of Hooghly.

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Our destination was none other than the silver screen to partake in one of the then cinematic masterpieces, 'Lawaris' (The Orphan Guy), a blockbuster that had hit the silver screens in the year 1981. The cinematic masterpiece was crafted under the deft aegis of maven director, Mr. Prakash Mehra, and boasted arresting performances by thespian stalwarts, including Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Amzad Khan and Rakhee Gulzar.

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As we ventured down the marbled passages, I could feel a tingle of excitement course through my veins. The posters plastered on the walls beckoned, promising scenes of action and adventure, romance, and comedy. The sound of the crowd hummed in the air, vibrant and alive with anticipation.

We found our seats, and I settled in, eager to experience what the legendary Lawaris had to offer. As the lights went down, the excitement in the theatre was palpable. The audience sat still, their breaths held, as the story of Lawaris unfolded in all its glory.

As the credits rolled, I was bewitched by the peppy, foot-tapping melodies comprising the earsplitting auditory hooks, such as 'Mere Aangne Mein Tumhara Kya Kaam Hai' and 'Apni To Jaisi Taisi', phrasing an aesthetic and boisterous marquee, arpeggiated by the musical prowess of the lyrical duo of India, Kalyanji Anandji . The musical score simulated spectral rhymes and induced jerky spasms in my fledgling self, prompting me to flounce and gyrate euphorically along with the beats of the hypnotic soundtrack, despite it having a seat reserved in my name.

Despite my tender years, the nonpareil performance of the formidable lead, Amitabh Bachchan, left an indelible impression on my young mind. Every move he made, every expression that graced his face, was etched in my memory, imprinting an image of a confident, self-assured being, untouchable in his prowess.

As the plot thickened, the exhilarating climax of the frenzy-thickened tale where the protagonist, Heera, administered a beating of biblical proportions to a horde of fearsome protagonists, evoked a debonair composure in the protagonist, a countenance bereft of any vulnerability, in stark contrast to the protagonist of my prior cinematic encounter.

All in all, my second cinematic indulgence had become a real eye-opener, striking a chord with my nascent self and fanning the flames of my imagination. The balletic amalgam of colourful choreography, resplendent melodies and thespian theatrics had effaced the ennui from my existence and left me yearning for more cinematic marvels- a feeling that persisted throughout my life into adulthood. It is a testament to the power of cinema to transport us to other worlds, other times, and make us feel alive; a legacy that lives on, year after year, drawing in audiences young and old, and leaving them with unforgettable memories.

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usinesses are expanding their dimensions to boost the profit graph for their organizations but few impart value to society without any expectations in return. A re-known name of the lift manufacturers in Delhi caught the chance for the same and made their presence worthy at National Blind School.

ShuttleSky Lifts & Structures Pvt. Ltd. did a CSR in collaboration with Dominos at National Blind School on the occasion of baby Vanshika Mann’s birthday. There they provided pizza to the students of the school to create an aura of happiness and humbleness that shows that humanity is still alive.

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Shri Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI (Communist), has issued the following statement(26.06.22) today.

"Although Supreme court exonerated Mr. Modi on alleged involvement in horrific Gujarat riot and cruel murder of Mr. Jaffri and many others. But he will remain guilty in the court of people's conscience for present and future history.

We condemn arrest of human right activists Teesta Sitalvad and others, as a vindictive act of the B.J.P ruled Gujarat Government. We urge upon the democratic minded people of the country to develop movement demanding their release."

This News released by Shri Swapan Ghosh

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Clash Between Student Groups At Bengal's Visva Bharati University

The injured student said in a video clip he recognized two attackers.New Delhi: An economics student at West Bengal's prestigious Visva Bharati University was admitted to hospital last night after being attacked by a group of students, allegedly from the BJP-linked student body, ABVP.Swapnanil Mukherjee and some other students clashed with the ABVP group around 11:30 pm on the campus. Video footage shows some lathi wielding youth threatening them as he was brought to the local hospital for treatment.The injured student said in a video clip he recognized two attackers -- Achintya Bagdi, a post grad student, and former student Sabir Ali.This is the first major clash between rival student groups after a face off on 8th January between students and the vice chancellor over BJP MP Swapan Dasgupta being invited to lecture on the new Citizenship Amendment Act.On that day, Mr Dasgupta, vice chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and nearly 100 others who came to attend the lecture, had been confined inside a hall for 6 hours by students from Left-linked groups.The protesting students had dispersed around 10 pm that day saying they were feeling threatened as ABVP and BJP supporters were reportedly gathering outside the campus to attack them.A police complaint has been filed about last nights clash. Read the full article

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The Teesta Floods of 1968

The 50th Anniversary of the Teesta Floods of 1968 would be soon upon us.

As a survivor, though just 2, and in order that the few recollections do not get wiped away, I am copy pasting with the link of one of the eyewitnesses:

http://akdcts.blogspot.com/2011/08/eyewitness-to-teesta-floods-1968.html

http://akdcts.blogspot.com/2011/10/teesta-floods-of-1968.html

The Teesta Barrage

Yesterday was the 43rd anniversary of the Teesta flood of 1968 which caused untold devastation and changed the landscape of North Bengal to some extent.

In one of my earlier posts,I had carried a scholarly contribution By Mr Swapan Sen, who was the Assistant Engineer of the Irrigation and Waterways Directorate of the West Bengal Government and was posted in the area at that fateful time.

In today's post he recounts the horrors of that day and recreates the memories of many brave men(including, I must add, himself) who fought against the elements, albeit unsuccessfully to save the people of North Bengal from the calamity. Without their efforts, the death toll and the scale of devastation would probably have been much greater than it actually was.While the Teesta is in the news nowadays for political reasons, nobody really remembers those terrible days. This is an important memoir of the floods of 1968. .

The Teesta Flood 1968- a real life story ( Part 1) By Mr Swapan Sen

It was 2nd of October, 1968. This being Gandhiji’s birthday was a holiday for all but not for me. My colleague Dipankar Chakraborty, who was the Assistant Engineer of the Moinaguri Subdivision of the Irrigation & Waterways Directorate’s Jalpaiguri Division, had gone on leave and I was to look after his work in addition to my own at Jalpaiguri. Rain was pouring down incessantly from the previous evening and at about 8 AM that day, I received a telephone call from our Executive Engineer, Kamakshya Prasad Chowdhury (Kamakshyada to all his junior colleagues) asking me to go to Moinaguri and take a look at the Domohani embankment. So I was on my way to Moinaguri in my Jeep not knowing what to expect.

Reaching our office at Moinaguri, I called for Sri Monoranjan Adhikary, the senior-most and the most experienced Sub-Assistant Engineer of the Sub-division. Together we set out for an inspection of the Domohani embankment which was crossing the Railway Bridge on the Teesta. I had little experience with the behavior of the mighty Teesta. So at the Domohani gauge-site, the spectacle seemed quite frightening. The river water was nearly touching the danger-mark and the river seemed to be endless between the two embankments of Jalpaiguri and Moinaguri. The country-side slope of the Domohani embankment, protecting Moinaguri, had slipped away at places. But these slippages were visibly old. Mr. Adhikary and I called up local men for covering the countryside slopes with gunny bags filled with earth with the hope that this would slow down the seepage of river-water through the embankment soil and prevent further slippage.

The water level of the river kept on rising and towards the evening it went beyond the danger-mark. As dusk set in, it became practically impossible to do any fruitful work amidst incessant rains and darkness. I decided to stay on at Moinaguri and went back to the office. I rang up Kamakshyada and narrated what I had seen at the embankment-site and the fact that it was impossible to work with a handful of local labour during the night and continuing heavy rains. Sensing fear in my voice, he told me not to panic, as the embankments, as experienced by him, are never breached by mere seepage unless the river-water itself flows over the top of the embankment.

I spent a very restless night in Dipankar’s living quarters. In the morning, I set out again with Mr. Adhikary, for the embankment. As I reached the embankment, what I saw was simply appalling. The river water had crossed the extreme danger level and there appeared to be, as we had been taught at our Engineering College, “sand-boiling” along the toe-line of the embankment on the country-side. Seeping across the embankment, the river-water was coming out with sand taken from the embankment along the toe-line through numerous holes. The sand coming out appeared to boil in the river water at the exits. It looked as if there were numerous pipes in the embankment through which the river-water was finding way to the other side. Evidently, if allowed to continue, this would eventually cause sinking of the crest of the embankment. We gathered the village people available nearby and sought for their help in covering the embankment toe with gunny bags filled with earth taken from wherever this was available. Soon other problems surfaced. There were large-scale slippages on the country-side slope of the embankment and the top of the embankment, as apprehended, started sinking at places. As our brave men kept on collecting and depositing earth in their bid to repair the damages, I went down to the village and managed to phone Kamakshyada from the phone of a log-yard owner. He told me, he would try to come to the site but the condition of the protection embankment on the Jalpaiguri-side too was no better and he and other colleagues of mine were busy in protecting that embankment. He also told me to keep in touch with Utpal Bhadra, the Assistant engineer at the Head Office, who had been deputed by him especially to monitor the situation, maintain liaison with the District Administration and the Army for help.

It was clearly a losing battle we were fighting. We neither had the man-power, nor enough useable earth or sand nearby to cover the leaking toes and depressions of the crest of the embankment, that had started appearing in the upstream reaches of the embankment. The top of the embankment had also narrowed down in places due to slippages and it was hardly possible to access the upper reaches of the embankment in our Jeep any more. The rains were not also showing any signs of letting up. I conveyed to Utpal from the log-yard owner’s phone that we had to somehow save the people as a breach in the embankment seemed imminent. He said the Army has been asked to help and I should remain at the site till they arrive.

At about 12 Noon, Government Officials, including the Sub-divisional Officer, Jalpaiguri, arrived on the spot to ascertain the situation. Asked what I thought about the condition of the embankment, I told them that the prognosis was bad as the water was still rising and the embankment could give way; the people in nearby villages should therefore, be alerted and evacuated. I made the same request to a local political leader, Mr. Chikur Chanda, who had also arrived at the spot around the same time. I told him the village folks were not ready to leave their homes in the incessant rain and that they were to be convinced.

At about 3PM, the rise in the water-level seemed to slow down and the water-level, apparently reached a peak. This brought some solace to our anxious minds but little did we know what was lying in wait. With the dusk setting in, we had to return to our office. I was in rain-soaked clothes throughout the day and needed a change of clothes. I slipped into my nightdress, which was the only dry apparel then available with me. Mr. Adhikari too, went home for a change of clothes but came back to the office in an hour’s time. Just then, a radiogram message arrived from Teesta Bazaar and we learnt that the level of water at the Teesta Bazaar (Anderson Bridge) gauge site was rising rapidly, more than 6 inches in 30 minutes. The status reported was that of about 6 PM. We consulted our gauge-records and previous history of time taken by the river-water to reach Domohani from the Teesta Bazar. What we found, took our breath away. The water level at Teesta Bazaar had reached an all-time unbelievably high peak (20.4 m above the extreme danger level*). The time the river water takes to reach Domohani from the Teesta Bazaar gauge site, we found, was 6 to 8 hours. This meant the water level at the Domohani gauge site would reach its peak between 12-00 hours that night and 2 AM, the next morning.

We set out again for the embankment. As we reached the gauge-site of the embankment at about 12-00 hours, we found that the water level was just about a foot below the top of the embankment. It was dangerous to proceed further upstream along the embankment in our Jeep. To reach the log-yard owner’s place we had to pass below a Banyan tree, which had, by that time, started leaning on the embankment partially blocking our path. We managed to reach the log-yard in the village along the side-road leading off from the embankment. I could call up Utpal over the log-yard phone and he told me to stick to the site as the Army was to arrive to take charge of the embankment. Before I left, I told the owner of the Log-Yard to call up his neighbors and move to safe zones as quickly as possible. Apparently he was unwilling to leave his home and said he had no place to go amidst such incessant rain.

I had no alternative but to go back to the gauge-site and wait for the Army to arrive. This was a relatively safer zone as the gauge-site was close to the crossing of the Railway embankment and our protection embankment and this crossing was at a level several feet higher than the top of the embankment. On the way to this crossing I summoned my gauge-readers from their camp, rigged-up on a wooden-platform, by flashing the headlights of my Jeep and told them to be alert and stick close to the water-gauge and the Railway line. We turned our Jeep focusing the headlights on the water-gauge, very little of which was sticking out above the river water by then. We kept on waiting in our Jeep and trying to read the water-gauge with the Jeep’s headlight from time to time. (to be continued) 

The second and concluding part of Mr Swapan Sen's account of the Teesta floods of 1968.

http://akdcts.blogspot.com/2011/10/teesta-floods-1968-part-2.html

It was at about 2 AM that we realized that the gauge-stick was no longer visible. The top of the stick had apparently disappeared below the river-water and this meant that the river was flowing over the top of the embankment. The gauge-readers were nowhere in sight. I was worried that the camp of the gauge-readers would be washed away as soon as the embankment was breached. The men in the camp needed to be saved. Mr. Adhikary, got down from the Jeep and went in search of the gauge-readers. The tall figure vanished from the path of the Jeep-headlights as the brave man walked away towards the camp along the embankment. Minutes went by seeming like hours, but he did not come back. At last when I had given up hopes of seeing him alive again, a staggering figure emerged from the darkness. It was Mr. Adhikary. He came up to me, uttered, “I am sorry, Sir, I could not reach the camp. I fell into the river”, and then dropped on the ground apparently losing his senses. My driver, Kanu Mali and I jumped down from the Jeep and hoisted the heavy man on to the back sear of the Jeep. I told Kanu to turn the Jeep in the direction of the gauge-reader’s camp and flash its headlights. After several minutes, that seemed like ages, two figures appeared before the headlights of the Jeep - the gauge-readers. As I asked for the Gauge-register, they said they had not brought the record-book. Mr. Adhikari had, in the meantime regained his senses, and shouted at the gauge-readers urging them to go back and fetch the Register from their camp. The gauge-readers were obviously afraid of losing their lives, as the river-water was flowing over the embankment, but ultimately went back to their camp and fetched the Gauge-register. As they arrived with the Register, Mr. Adhikary snatched it away from them, embraced it as if this was his life, and kept on hysterically crying out, “Now everyone will believe us. This will prove that the Teesta has gone over the top of the embankment”.

I told Kanu to take me to Jalpaiguri, so that I could be with Kamakshyada and other colleagues. I asked the gauge-readers to board the Jeep and together we started for Jalpaiguri, across the road bridge on the other side of the river. As we entered the town of Jalpaiguri, we found that the streets were all water-logged, - possibly inundated by the waters of the overflowing rivulet Karala , which meanders through the town and meets the Teesta finally. Further inside the town, the water-level went on steadily increasing. As we reached the Police Station at the center of the town, Kanu, our driver, declared that the car-engine would stall if we proceeded further towards the Executive Engineer’s Bungalow. I told him to drop me at the Police Station so that they could, if possible, go back home at Moinaguri. They left assuring me that they would not take any undue risk to reach their homes. I found a policeman talking over a phone. I snatched the receiver from him after disclosing my identity and managed to connect Kamakshyada. He asked me to come to his place immediately. I was in no shape to make the half a mile journey to his residence alone. I was then running a high temperature and told him I could not come to his place. He told me to stick to the Police Station, where he would send some men to fetch me. I found an empty table, climbed up and lay down on the table. A few minutes later, the lights of the township went out. I was not also able to use the telephone thereafter as apparently, all the telephone lines too, went dead. I had lost all sense of time lying on the table, when someone shook me up awake and urged me to come down. I found it was two of our office-clerks, who had been sent down to fetch me from the Police Station. We waded through the waist- deep rapids then flowing through the town and after about 20 minutes reached Kamakshyada’s house. I was terribly excited and told him what I had been through and that the Teesta waters had overtopped the Domohani embankments. He said the Jalpaiguri embankments had also been likewise overtopped and told me to take rest and not to think about what has happened. I lay down on a bed and woke up in the morning only to hear someone weeping. It was Kamakshyada. He was looking out of the windows of his first floor and was watching helplessly carcasses of animals, trees and debris floating by. By then fifty five people from the Colony of the Irrigation Department’s Division Office had taken shelter in the first floor of Kamakshyada’s house, the ground floor having already gone under water. The water available in the overhead tanks of the house was insufficient for the people who had taken shelter. This was therefore required to be saved for drinking purposes only. The water level outside kept on rising till about 11 AM and at 4PM, this receded only by a couple of inches. It was evident we were all going to face serious crisis if the water level did not recede faster. It was 6th of October, 1968, 3 PM, when help arrived. Mr, Kutty, the Executive Engineer from Siliguri Division, arrived with his men, water, rice and other essentials wading through near waist-deep water and sludge. To us he seemed like God. He assured that all help will be available from his men and we were not to worry any more. Yes, we got a fresh lease of life but the townsfolk had by then suffered irreparable and inconsolable loss. Their sufferings would continue for many more months and for some, for many more years. After a few days I was able to reach my residential quarters, pack up a few things and leave for Kolkata, where my parents were anxiously waiting for me to come back home. Epilogue: The Domohani Gauge-register, that was saved, was unfortunately not available after the flood. My colleague Dipankar Chakraborty, who retired as the Chief Engineer of the Irrigation Department of the West Bengal Government, tells me he did not see this after he was called back from leave and took over charge of the Moinaguri Sub-division again. He says all documents in his office were destroyed by the flood water. Kamakshyada, my Executive Engineer, is no more. What he told me from his experience that the Teesta embankment would be breached only if the river water flowed over the top, proved to be true. I do not know if Mr. Adhikary, the braveheart, is still alive. The official records of the river-water levels at the Domohani gauge station will not be available any more to prove him right. (Acknowledgements: Dipankar Chakraborty, Chief Engineer (Retired), Irrigation Department of the West Bengal Government *Flash floods in India- Pritam Singh, A. S. Ramanathan and V. G. Ghanekar)

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akdctsAugust 21, 2016 at 10:12 AM

I do not know how to express my coupled sense of nostalgia, sentiment and emotion – I just say ‘Hats Off Congratulations, Mr.Sen’ !! Often I had tried with ‘google’ search – amazing – found something now!! I am one of those witness-survivors – I distinctly remember those minutes, hours, days – we often recall too. Yes, we, a family of five, survived - our ‘didi’ who used to help our mother in domestic jobs and without whom we won’t have survived (she decided and insisted that we break open portion of the wooden ceiling and climb on to it – we did so), our parents who are no longer with us since 2002/2004, and my sister. If I am not trying to open up any controversy, please permit to add that the devastation in Jalpaiguri town occurred just after the mid-night of Friday, 4th October (wee hours/beginning of 5th October). To me, it appears from the blog that one day is somehow missing – sorry if I am confused. I observe that the following book is available (digitized - https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Report_on_the_Working_of_the_Flood_Warni.html?id=E1MMAQAAIAAJ): “Report on the Working of the Flood Warning System in the Jalpaiguri District During the Floods on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of October, 1968”. [authored by the West Bengal Govt. Home Dept, Contributor: S. N. Ray, Published:1968]. The full book is not available on the website - only some very brief portions/excerpts appear, as below: -------------------------------------------- - - whether flood warning in respect of last flood in the Teesta was intimated to the people or not. The Government are making enquiries in the matter but it may be said that the Irrigation and Waterways Directorate staff sent all the messages required under the rules duly, including the message intimating that extreme warning-level had been crossed at Teesta Bazar on the 4th morning and that the gauge was rising rapidly. - - -------------------------------------------- 11. A control room was set up in the Deputy Commissioner’s Bungalow office (Phone Jalpaiguri-34) on 4th October,1968 and it started functioning round-the-clock at 07.45 hours soon after the receipt of the first message from Officer-in-charge, Kalimpong Police Station. - - - ---------Presumably Radiogram Message------- BDO MAYNAGURI SDO IRRGN SLG DE RLY SLG DC DJG SP DJG FROM: O/C KPG P.S. TISTA BRIDGE GAUGE CROSSED EXTREME WARNING STAGE LEVEL (683.00) AT 07.30 HRS TODAY (4.10.68) RISING RAPIDLY -------------------------------------------- What surprises me even today why no alarm was sounded in the town during the subsequent sixteen hours (8 am till mid-night). That was the talk all over the town and other affected places during post-flood days – I recall – I was 21, a student in a Calcutta college who was visiting parents during Durga Puja holidays, had reached Jalpaiguri on the morning of Saturday 28th September.

Mr Sen reacts to the comment above: I find the comments on the Teesta article quite interesting. Kindly convey my thanks to Mr. Pabitra Kumar Mukhopadhyaya. I did receive radiogram messages from Teesta Bazar on 3rd/4rth October,68 informing that Teesta water was rising rapidly (more than 6"/30 minutes). I am aware of the write-up of Mr. S.N.Ray, who was appointed as the single enquiry officer on the Jalpaiguri Flood. Following his report, the West Bengal Govt. transferred the then Executive Engineer Kamakshya Chowdhuri and the Superintending Engineer. I did not quite appreciate the step taken. The cause was something that could not be controlled by any human being at that time and the damage to the embankments, in my view, was aggravated by the the extremely limited waterway below the bridges. This was, I am afraid, recognized only after the damage took place. The waterway was increased from 13 spans to 20 spans below the bridges much later.

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Senior actor Anupam Kher's Twitter account was hacked. Kher was not aware of the incident until his friends called him and informed him about the same. 

"I am in Los Angeles and it is 1 am. Have spoken to Twitter already," Kher told ANI. 

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Cafe Improv, Sept. 2017 Part 2 from Princeton Community Television on Vimeo.

Performances by Sarah Lightman, Ajay Divakaran, Avi Wisnia and Bear Cave Tower

Sarah Lightman - Singer - Songwriter Sarah, a New Jersey native who relocated to Los Angeles, has an EP available on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, and other major music platforms. Like multi-platinum selling artist Andy Grammar did before landing a major deal, Sarah street performs by day, and plays at venues throughout Los Angeles, by night. She teaches music theory and voice to all ages in her spare time. Please give Sarah some love as she returns to Cafe Improv.

Ajay Divakaran - North Indian Classical Vocal Music Ajay Divakaran presents North Indian Classical vocal music, accompanied by Srinivasan Ramaswamy (violin) and Shivalik Ghoshal (Tabla). Ajay youtube.com/watch?v=CK1CmEGHC60 has been a disciple of the prominent Hindustani vocalist Mrs. Kumkum Sanyal since 2003. Srinivasan is a disciple of Shri Lalgudi Jayaraman, having learned to play the violin under his tutelage for over 10 years. Shivalik is currently a student of Shri Swapan Chaudhuri and has studied the tabla since 1989. Ajay’s performance was featured in the Best of Café Improv 2016.

Avi Wisnia - Jazz / Pop Singer - Songwriter Award-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist Avi Wisnia tours prestigious venues around the world with his acclaimed sophisticated jazz/pop fusion. Think Ben Folds meets Norah Jones, if they had a lovechild in Brazil. He has shared the stage with Maroon 5 & The Roots, given a bossanova-infused TEDTalk, and performed with “The Moth” storytellers. His most recent single “Sky Blue Sky,” recorded via satellite in Rio de Janeiro, is available now. aviwisnia.com

Bear Cave Tower - Original Acoustic Music Featuring the haunting vocals of Loretta Allen and the soothing classical guitar melodies of Alexey Babarykin, together they create songs of hope, mystery, and history, creating melodies and stories that harken back to an older era, but are very much a part of today. You can keep up with them at bearcavetower.com