Kali Puja is just around the corner and inmates of Alipore Correctional Home are extremely busy, completing clay idols of Goddess Kali. Many of these inmates areserving life sentence. They had also made Durga idols, and now they have been given the work of making
Rabindra Sarovar or The Lake as it is popularly known as was severely polluted last year after the Chhath Puja. The situation was so grim with more than 40,000 people offering pujas in the Lake water, that just after the puja, many dead birds were
Written in the end of the nineteenth century, Swami Vivekananda’s poem, Kali the Mother, evokes the Night of Kali as a time of pitch darkness that blots out stars, while on every side, ‘a thousand, thousand shades of Death begrimed and black’ scatters plagues and
Saheli Mitra speaks to Sauvik Banerjjee, one of the top six technologists of the world with over 150 implementations globally. He is also the chief architect of Reliance Jio, Vice President Digital Initiatives of TATA group of industries and CTO of TATACLIQ. On the sidelines
Swami Vivekananda often depended on one of his dear disciples Sister Nivedita to carry out his dreams. In 1899, Sister Nivedita was touring the country giving lectures on Vedanta and Hindu philosophy. Her speech on Goddess Kali, created waves amidst a packed audience at Calcutta’s
She was born in 1917 and today happens to be her 100th birthday. But she is still alive and kicking, ready to celebrate her birthday bash with her grandchildren and their families. She is none other than Jyotirmoyee Mukherjee, the erstwhile freedom fighter from Bengal
While on a customary Bijoya visit, artist Partha Dasgupta spoke to famous artist Jogen Chowdhury to find out his take on the city’s Durga Puja and his association with this carnival. Here is an excerpt of the interview that Jogen Chowdhury gave to GB. • Partha
• What is KAHINI? KAHINI to me is the story of fashion and style. I wanted to be a fashion designer and have my own boutique from the age of 14. After graduating from Jadavpur University, I went to NIFT to learn about fashion designing and
How do we define Kishore Kumar? His larger-than-life entity cannot be fitted in a single frame. He was a genius, a man of myriad moods, an enigmatic, crazy, romantic, brilliant singer/actor nay, a total packaged performer -- in short, God’s precious gift to mankind. He
Have you ever wondered what Tantric meditation of east is all about, or for that matter tantric sex of the west? For centuries literature and various popular sites have woven Goddess Kali with Tantra, primarily because she embodies ultimate female power and energy and her