I finally broke the news to my mother a few days ago. I told her that I am leaving my stable job as a faculty member in archaeology at Kerala and moving back to Kolkata to start my own company which will raise community awareness
Oyon – currently living in Waltham, Massachusetts with his family – has recently won the Mighty Minds Contest which is a national competition for young inventors jointly organised by the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a youth educational summer camp called Camp Invention. Already
In 1985, the wife of the contemporary Indian President was detected with a grave neurological disease and needed to undergo surgery. The President’s private physician as well as the eminent Indian neurosurgeon of that time – Dr Ramamurthy advised him that only one individual –
When society changes, people change and problems also keep changing, why should values and religious rules remain unchanged? Ten years in the past from now, Sajeba Bibi, a resident of Beldanga's Mirzapur village, got 'Talak' (divorce). Since then she has been working as a bidi binder
Last year Maya Art Space in Kolkata hosted an exhibition of artist Partha Dasgupta’s ceramics creations titled “Amrit”. “Mrit” was used in reference to “mrittika” which, in turn, means earth/clay in Sanskrit. On the other hand, the significance of “a” lied in the quality of
Calcutta captured on the streets – that too on the camera of an American military officer! Clyde Waddell was a photographer of the U.S. military who arrived in Calcutta towards the fag end of the Second World War in 1946 to assist Lord Mountbatten who
What is a nation? A satisfactory answer to this question was not present in early 19th century Calcutta. Back then, after the deadly cholera outbreak of 1817, the lottery committee was clearing forests and filling up ponds to set up new residential areas, and privately-owned
“ I would like to bring back the huge repertoire of the Bangal ( East Bengal) cuisine which got buried due to the partition and later the refugee status of the our earlier generations” Pritha Sen, a journalist, food researcher and a ‘bangal’ by heart has been travelling
Gaganendranath Tagore The rainy season has made a late but grand entrance into Bengal this year. Kolkata has finally drenched her wings. And the time has come to sing to your girlfriend silly band songs like, “Tumi brishti bhijona thanda lege jabe
The most diverse clan amongst the folk artists of West Bengal is that of the patuas or the scroll painters. Their profession is that of rendering the countless miracles of divine gods and goddesses in paint. In practice, they are Muslims. In their own words,