SadaD alna or Jjalphoroner Dalna is Taki’s special dish.Green chilly or kanchalanka is known as Jhalor Morich in Taki, a legacy of Jessore dialect.From the name itself it is apparent that this dish is sadaie.spiceless with a mild dash of green chilli or jhal. This
His sister Marufa died without treatment from a simple chest infection when she was just 17 years old. That made taxi driver Saidul Laskar promise to himself that he would not let anyone die at least in his village in Baruipur at least without treatment.
Eastern Railway ran a special train from Budge Budge to Sealdah, yesterday, 19 to mark the 122nd return day of Swami Vivekananda from Chicago, where he had delivered the historic lecture. On his way back to Kolkata from the US city in 1897, Vivekananda had
After the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel medal, that is yet to be traced, authorities are not taking any chance with any of the original artefacts that Tagore ever used or gifted or even received as a gift. One such artefact that lies locked up
Dear Sabyasachi, You have indeed raised a storm over morning cuppas across India, especially in Bengali households over your comment: It is a shame for those who do not know how to wear a saree. Frankly, many Bengali women of the present generation do not know
A Bengali’s first love, a Bengali’s first thought, a Bengali’s first friend ---- has always been books! When it comes to books, Bengalgets nostalgic. But in this fast-paced, complex urban life, who finds time to roam the city to choose books? That’s why book fairs
Samanjit Sengupta is Additional District Magistrate of Murshidabad The meandering streams of a migrating Ganges, often leaves innumerable ox-bow lakes and waterbodies along its course, in the fertile land of Murshidabad. The mighty river has innumerable distributaries and tributaries that have been home to diverse aquatic
Kolkata and Chinese --- almost go hand in hand. Be it their food, or their shoes, Bengal has always embraced this community who had settled in Kolkata almost two centuries ago and had a thriving population once upon a time. But their dwindling population in
Journalist Shabina Akhtar runs a Pan India newsportal enewsroom Twenty-one-year-old Sobhan Mukherjee, an MSc student of Ashutosh College, has been silently installing Bandhan sanitary napkin boxes in the public toilets of Bansdhroni, Golpark and Naktala area of Kolkata. The agenda of Kolkata’s Padman is simple, women
In an exclusive interview to GB, Kolkata’s artist Sudip Chatterjee speaks on why and how his paintings were featured on German stamps! • How did you come to know your paintings have been taken up by the German government on their stamps? A few weeks ago, I