Chess is called the game of the brains and tactics. It is slow, but steady, and opens up young minds to those ‘little grey cells’ that Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot always spoke of. Bengal has always seen chess as a very popular indoor game and
With the Supreme Court of India banning use of sound polluting fire crackers over past few years, Diwali in Bengal and specially in Kolkata has become a quieter affair. But if we are happy thinking, we have killed demons of noise pollution, hardly many of
If your child has been enamoured by the Trick or Treat games of Halloween and loved that Pumpkin carving, we are sure they would also love Bengal’s home-grown ‘Halloween’ night. Well, we call it Bhoot Chaturdashi, and the different idols of demonic figures and evil
Isn’t it amazing that out of the many severed body parts of Goddess Sati, almost 13 fell in West Bengal and gave rise to revered holy pilgrimages? Shakti peeths (In Sanskrit Shakti refers to power and energy) are significant shrines and pilgrimage destinations in Shaktas,
Sanatan Dinda is a four-time World Champion in Body Painting. Yet, very few of us know of this achievement of his. Is body painting and nudity still a taboo in India? What does Dinda say? • How are you popularizing the art of body painting
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man can invent ---” That’s what our very favourite detective Sherlock Holmes had once said. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, a self - proclaimed ‘consulting detective’ was a man of many forte. He has indeed
Gazi Jalaluddin looks like any other 60 plus taxi driver. He is also humble, soft spoken, his words carry the rustic charm of a semi-rural dialect. But dig deep into his heart, and his eyes reflect a dream and the courage to fulfil the same.