A Bengali’s first love, a Bengali’s first thought, a Bengali’s first friend ---- has always been books! When it comes to books, Bengalgets nostalgic. But in this fast-paced, complex urban life, who finds time to roam the city to choose books? That’s why book fairs
Samanjit Sengupta is Additional District Magistrate of Murshidabad The meandering streams of a migrating Ganges, often leaves innumerable ox-bow lakes and waterbodies along its course, in the fertile land of Murshidabad. The mighty river has innumerable distributaries and tributaries that have been home to diverse aquatic
Kolkata and Chinese --- almost go hand in hand. Be it their food, or their shoes, Bengal has always embraced this community who had settled in Kolkata almost two centuries ago and had a thriving population once upon a time. But their dwindling population in
Journalist Shabina Akhtar runs a Pan India newsportal enewsroom Twenty-one-year-old Sobhan Mukherjee, an MSc student of Ashutosh College, has been silently installing Bandhan sanitary napkin boxes in the public toilets of Bansdhroni, Golpark and Naktala area of Kolkata. The agenda of Kolkata’s Padman is simple, women
In an exclusive interview to GB, Kolkata’s artist Sudip Chatterjee speaks on why and how his paintings were featured on German stamps! • How did you come to know your paintings have been taken up by the German government on their stamps? A few weeks ago, I
Finally, Bengal’s leading novelist of all times, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay’s house could be saved from the greed of promoters. This house stands at Tala Park and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad has bought this house from his heirs as at sum of more than 2 crores. This house
Kolkata does not need female auto drivers to save female passengers from getting molested on city roads. There are stray incidents where we do read of ‘Autocracy by Auto drivers’ on the streets of Kolkata, still we can always say we are far safe than
Every region has its specific signature cuisine that becomes important for a particular region, because of the increase of tourists opting for Home Stays these days.Taki is a Buffer Zone between Ghatis and Bangals. Naturally Taki cuisine is neither Ghati nor Bangal, but a mixture
Rakasree Basu has always been a fan of Saswata Chatterjee. Be it as Tutti Futti in Jagga Jasoos, or Bob Biswas in Shobor, Chatterjee has always been Basu’s favourite actor. So no wonder when this Mumbai based producer, decided to make a children’s movie, instead
She worked as a domestic help and sold vegetables under the Park Circus foot bridge to earn enough money to build a hospital for the poor. Subhasini Mistry is undoubtedly an unsung matriarch who is now all of 75 years. But all these years she