A Tale of Two Cities

West Bengal finally has a biennale of its own, currently being held in Santiniketan and Kolkata

- Malini Banerjee

For a long time, the idea of a Bengal Biennale was one of a dream deferred. When curator Siddharth Sivakumar visited the Kochi Biennale as a student, he remembered having that wistful thought, "When will Bengal have its own biennale?" It was a dream that was set aside for later, for Malavika and Jeet Banerjee, directors of the corporate branding agency Gameplan, and known for establishing the Kolkata Literary Meet in 2012. But lest it slip away, they booked the domain name of Bengalbiennale.​com barely a couple of years after KALAM the lit-fest began.