Have you tasted those yummilicious mangoes this season? If not, you would be surely doing soon. Incidentally, Bengal is the seat of the greatest varieties of mangoes of the world. The Mango (Mangifera Indica) is the most important tropical fruit produced in West Bengal. Bengal
‘What is great in the realm of art might not be equally acceptable in the realm of morality; similarly, what morality finds laudable might fail to satisfy artistic thirst’ – this observation, articulated in the course of Annada Shankar Ray’s essay collection on Tolstoy, reflects
We know Upendranath Brahmachari, popularly called U. N. Brahmachari, as the man who found the medicine for deadly Kaalazar. But many of us do not know he was also the founder of the world’s second blood bankand the first Indian administrator of the Indian Red
When many of Kolkata’s heritage buildings are going under the axe in the name of modernization, here is an example of how Konnagar Municipality has taken steps to safeguard Abanindranath Tagore’s Victorian farmhouse on the banks of the River Ganges, from the hands of promoters
Every morning, the first rays of the sun touch its spirited cells. New leaves are born and the tree gets fuller with each passing day.After the death of the giant and the oldest tortoise, Adwaita, at Alipore Zoo in Kolkata, it has almost been a
She was the epitome of Bengali sophistication. Sharp featured, tall and petite Lolita Chatterjee may not have robbed the limelight of Tollywood and Bollywood, none the less we shall always remember her as one of the most sophisticated actresses of Bengali movies. Chatterjee made her debut
The term Haat is so quintessentially Bangla. Rabindranath Tagore has used this word over and over again in many of his prose and poems. And who can forget Kumor Parar Gorur Gari and Haat boshechhe sukrobarey! But Santiniketan’s rural market off the road to Khowai is
At 10 o’clock on the morning of 2nd November 1907, Rabindranath Tagore along with a few senior litterateurs, set out from Kolkata to Kashimbazar near Baharampur in the district of Murshidabad. The occasion was Bengal Provincial Literary Meet. The poet was also accompanied by his
Charu Market and a large part of south Kolkata around it is going for a huge change with Kolkata Municipal Corporation going for a public-private development project soon. The project is now awaiting a nod from KMC’s building department. Charu Market was set up almost
Except for a few forms, folk art has always concerned itself with a definite purpose of its object, be it a lamp or bell or utensil. Articles having certain utility, gain an aesthetic dimension in the hand of the folk artist who meticulously infuses the