Kolkata's Bourne & Shepherd, the world's oldest photography studio, has shut down after chronicling India's history for over 150 years
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The year is 1856. The East India Company is all set to march into Lucknow, and banish its ruler, Wajid Ali Shah, to Calcutta. Two noblemen, Mirza Sajjad Ali and Mir Roshan Ali, rakishly handsome and courteous to a fault, sneak out of the city to enjoy a quiet game of chess. There is an altercation between them and a pistol shot is fired that draws no blood. The two are ready to kill over a game of chess, yet they lift not a finger to defend Lucknow. As the two realise how their debauchery has emasculated them, the credit begins to roll for Satyajit Ray's 1977 masterpiece Shatranj Ke ...
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