Peace, tranquillity, spiritual harmony. Aren’t these needed after a tiring week? Maybe you would love to be alone, enjoy the ‘me’ time in an abode that gives you the ‘food for thought’ and refreshes you for the week ahead. This week we recommend the following
• How did it feel to get the Bengal’s Pride Award at the UK House of Commons? I feel completely humbled and quite pleasantly surprised by this recognition. Awards were never my forte. I was terrible at sports. I never put myself into music competitions that
Ramazan is the ninth month on the Islamic calendar and is considered to be the most sacred as the Holy Quran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed in this month. It is a period of spiritual reflection, self-discipline, sacrifice, charity and increased devotion. The fast begins at
Taki cuisine has always stood out from the rest, not just because of its Jessore influence, but also because of its less spicy appeal. Delicious, yet not too spicy, making them healthy. A well-known dish of Taki thus happens to be Sada Dalna or Jjalphoroner
Bengal has manufactured textiles for many centuries, as recorded in ancient hand-written and printed documents. Though we have always equated western India as the textile hub of the nation, Bengal had robbed the limelight since ancient ages as producing the best textiles of the world,
Samarpan Maiti from Kolkata has made us proud, not just by winning the runners up at The Mr Gay World contest this year, but by his grit to face this society where LGBT community is still stigmatised. He speaks to Saheli Mitra. We wish him
I was shocked when Lokman Molla referred to a paddy as Dui Satin (two wives of a polygamous man). Lokman got a jar-full of paddy from his stock. I noticed two pods of fine brown rice lying next to each other, just like two wives
If you ever imagined yourself as the ‘Old Man with a House atop a Hill,’ then Tilabari of North Bengal is your ideal retreat. Well, you need not be old to stay at the quaint Hill Retreat of Tilabari, what you need is love for
We have often been in love with Jaisalmer and its Sonar Kella. The Golden Fort of Rajasthan shot to fame overnight and turned into a Bengali tourist’s favourite hotspot after Feluda and Lalmohan Ganguly made it famous, looking for Mukul with villain Mandar Bose in
PIYALI CHANDA My early memory of Patha Bhavan dates back to 1956, when I was admitted there as a regular student. What was so special about this place is not easy to define, but it was obviously different. A familiar scene at Santiniketan was this: a