Often media reports make for a beeline, on how police from Bengal landed up in Noida or Faridabad, rescuing trafficked children from some village of North Bengal or Murshidabad. Only recently, police teams from West Bengal made trips to Delhi and adjoining areas to recover
• Why did you choose to be an architectural conservationist? I wasn’t aware of this interest during my under-graduation at CEPT Ahmedabad. While courses in architectural history and field programs to sites of historic significance were part of the curriculum, the focus was on creating something
A clothing bank for closed tea garden workers? In the past 15 years, almost 1400 people have died in the tea gardens of North Bengal, as one after the other gardens shut down, owing to a huge blow to the tea industry, thanks to the
• Why did you choose Rabindranath Tagore? Isn’t it difficult to translate his stories and already we have so many translations of his in the market? I have tried to address this question in the preface to my book ‘The Broken Home and Other Stories,’ where
Every year the Sindhis of Kolkata eagerly await Guru Nanak Jayanti. It gives a perfect opportunity to the entire community to come together and strengthen their bonds of brotherhood. During the partition of India, we Sindhis were forced to leave our home Sindh, the very
He is better known as the ‘manuscript seeker of Bengal.’ He also had a rare meet with Rabindranath Tagore on the very first day of his arrival at Visva Bharati. Panchanan Mondal, handed over an ancient coin to Tagore then. Tagore was so impressed with
‘You are never better than your last project.’ This is an old adage in the film industry and who knows it better than the master of the craft, Jean-Luc Godard (born on December 3, 1930) himself? The Franco-Swiss filmmaker and a leading member of the
As part of its ‘commitment to promoting’ more resource efficient and cleaner production, the Bengal Government is keen to advance green industry including possibility of setting up eco industrial parks in the state. “We will soon initiate discussions with UNIDO and CII as to how
Mother of seven-year-old twins, Shumona Mitra from Philadelphia USA has relentlessly worked for the past decade to take the weaves of Bengal to a global platform and popularise them among various communities of USA. Her aim was simple: to complete a woman’s personality. And she
In the 18th century, some important changes came in the food habits of Bengalis. A large number of sweets, both fried and those soft ones made of posset or cottage cheese (chhana), entered Bengali cuisine. Till the 16th century, Bengalis could not be termed as