Je radhe, shey chul-o badhe (the woman who cooks, also knows how to make her hair look good)… in other words a woman is a superwoman who does all kinds of chores. This was a very common sentence often used by our mothers and grandmothers.
If you talk about the obsession of the Bengali bhodrolok, Ilish Mach or Hilsa simply tops the list. It plays an indispensable role in our daily life. During monsoons, any Bengali kitchen seems incomplete without the presence of the ‘queen of fish.’ The state government
Sanchaiyta Bhattacharjee Alam, popularly known as Chef Sunshine has been able to bring sunshine in the otherwise morbid lives of inmates of Pavlov Mental Hospital. Recently, she conducted a baking workshop with a bunch of women residents of the hospital on behalf of Anjali, a
Digha has always been a common man’s budget tourist destination. Bengalis just rush to Digha in search of halcyon days whenever the urban life seems monotonous to them. But soon this destination will get a new feather in the cap! Chief Minister Mamata Banerji wants
Jaynagar does not just come in the headlines for political fights. It also happens to have sent more than 350 girls of the marginalized communities, many of whom participated in the Magic Bus Football Tournament. When the rest of India is making a poor show
Alipore Zoo is having a tough time with its tiger population, not because of diseases or their behavior, but simply because the tigresses are refusing to mate! Finally, the zoo authorities have decided to bring in five-year-old Snehashish from North Bengal to break the jinx.
Amina was a 16-year-old young student of Dhaka when she was picked up from her house by Pakistani troops. What went on with her after that, would beat any horror film. The repeated gangrapes and the horrific torture that Pakistan played on lakhs of women
SAHELI MITRA & SREEMOYEE BHATTACHARYA She is best known as someone who crossed the English Channel, and then turned a national and international swimmer, at a time when most in India could not even think of taking up swimming as a sport. Today, she looks a
Santiniketan’s Khowai is not just a natural splendour, with wind erosion giving rise to the naturally formed laterite mounds, it had for decades been a man-made wonder too, thanks to the local Saturday market or Haat. Just like Santiniketan’s lord Rabindranath Tagore and his famous
Young Adult as a genre sits firmly within the generation Z age space of 15 – 20 years, and as such, is powerfully influenced by the unique socio-economic changes and the technological disruption that this cohort experiences. As a part of my talk, I wanted