There was a time when they chopped trees illegally in the forests of North Bengal. And why did they do so? Simply because they had no other employment. Well, we are talking about the hundreds of youths of Buxa-Jayanti belt, where illegal timber logging was
GB WISHES ALL ITS READERS a GB wishes its readers HAPPY EASTER, as student Shae Lynn Samuel shares the fun of looking for Easter eggs and Easter bunnies! Easter is also about resurrection of Jesus Christ! Easter brings out the kid in ALL of us because
Bengal is indebted to Sayani Das, not because she crossed Australia’s Rottnest Channel in end February, as the first ever Bengali to achieve this feat, but because she has shown enough grit and courage against the usual pang of debts and lack of funding, to
Dr Samuel Rai, Director of Cinchona Plantation, made great efforts to trace the Scottish doctor’s family who had set up the rare medicinal plantation. GB speaks to him After my joining Cinchona Plantation as Director in November 2013, I wanted to know who started the Cinchona
He lives in Siliguri’s Salbari and has always been interested in anything and everything ancient. One can say Bipul Sarkar has a passion for anything old, so much so that he often travels to Kolkata to view a letter written by Rabindranath Tagore or Netaji
Rhythm Divine Co-founders and Co-ordinators, Anindita Bose, Sufia Khatoon and Jagari Mukherjee speak to GB • How receptive you think the audience of Bengal/Kolkata is towards poetry compared to other states of India? Reception towards poetry in Kolkata is the best in India. Cities like Mumbai and
An entire body of nearly lost dialects and scripts belonging to the various tribal communities of Bengal is all set to be resurrected through a massive archive. A team of scholars from the English department of Vidyasagar University has travelled for months through one tribal
Lifestyle of 19th century Bengali women and their ‘andarmahal’ culture that was usually centred around their kitchens, household chores and at times even poetry and letter writings, will now be a part of the post-graduation syllabus of Sanskrit University. The tales and struggles of a
Isn’t it said that poetry not just charms the soul, and find its way through the heart, connects people, but also brings a movement, acting as a tool that can create wonders and social changes. Keeping that in mind, Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts
