Finally, Bengal’s leading novelist of all times, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay’s house could be saved from the greed of promoters. This house stands at Tala Park and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad has bought this house from his heirs as at sum of more than 2 crores. This house
Kolkata does not need female auto drivers to save female passengers from getting molested on city roads. There are stray incidents where we do read of ‘Autocracy by Auto drivers’ on the streets of Kolkata, still we can always say we are far safe than
Every region has its specific signature cuisine that becomes important for a particular region, because of the increase of tourists opting for Home Stays these days.Taki is a Buffer Zone between Ghatis and Bangals. Naturally Taki cuisine is neither Ghati nor Bangal, but a mixture
Rakasree Basu has always been a fan of Saswata Chatterjee. Be it as Tutti Futti in Jagga Jasoos, or Bob Biswas in Shobor, Chatterjee has always been Basu’s favourite actor. So no wonder when this Mumbai based producer, decided to make a children’s movie, instead
She worked as a domestic help and sold vegetables under the Park Circus foot bridge to earn enough money to build a hospital for the poor. Subhasini Mistry is undoubtedly an unsung matriarch who is now all of 75 years. But all these years she
City based interior designer and photographer Urvashi Basu clicks some FACES AND FEELINGS at the KOLKATA BOOK FAIR Kolkata Book Fair is not about books, it is also about feelings. Be it the ecstasy of a child holding his first animal book, or a teenager browsing
Of the many places around Kolkata often visited as a picnic spot, Uluberia merits a special mention. Come winter and the riverside at Fuleshwar becomes abuzz and vibrant with picnic goers and revelers. Bounded by river Bhagirathi in the east, separating it from Kolkata and
The Sunderbans along with parts of south and north 24 Parganas have always had the problem of safe drinking water. In recent years, the quality of water has worsened due to arsenic poisoning of the ground water tube wells, rendering them unsafe for drinking. Not
He is a boy from Ballygunge, who studied at Don Bosco school Park Circus, but spent his summers and monsoons watching frogs! Rather tadpoles, metamorphosing into adult frogs at his grandmother’s place in Assam. This passion for frogs and their life-cycles did not leave him
Rinki Roy Bhattacharya has cinema in her veins, daughter of Bimal Roy, she married Basu Bhattacharya and collaborated on his films. Her book, The Man Who Spoke in Pictures, shows Roy’s spare storytelling and nuanced understanding of the human condition that are reflected in classics