Thespians hail renaming Kolkata’s Star Theatre after Binodini Dasi as historic, yet futile
The iconic century-old Star Theatre, standing tall and ornate at the crossing of Aurobindo Sarani and Bidhan Sarani in North Kolkata as a monolith of Bengal’s historic theatre traditions, now carries a different name plaque — ‘Binodini Theatre’. A few days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s December 30 announcement to rename Star Theatre…