City based interior designer and photographer Urvashi Basu clicks some FACES AND FEELINGS at the KOLKATA BOOK FAIR Kolkata Book Fair is not about books, it is also about feelings. Be it the ecstasy of a child holding his first animal book, or a teenager browsing
Of the many places around Kolkata often visited as a picnic spot, Uluberia merits a special mention. Come winter and the riverside at Fuleshwar becomes abuzz and vibrant with picnic goers and revelers. Bounded by river Bhagirathi in the east, separating it from Kolkata and
The Sunderbans along with parts of south and north 24 Parganas have always had the problem of safe drinking water. In recent years, the quality of water has worsened due to arsenic poisoning of the ground water tube wells, rendering them unsafe for drinking. Not
He is a boy from Ballygunge, who studied at Don Bosco school Park Circus, but spent his summers and monsoons watching frogs! Rather tadpoles, metamorphosing into adult frogs at his grandmother’s place in Assam. This passion for frogs and their life-cycles did not leave him
Rinki Roy Bhattacharya has cinema in her veins, daughter of Bimal Roy, she married Basu Bhattacharya and collaborated on his films. Her book, The Man Who Spoke in Pictures, shows Roy’s spare storytelling and nuanced understanding of the human condition that are reflected in classics
How did Namit Chaturvedi, Class IV student of Birla High feel speaking to Ruskin Bond and Devdutt Pattanaik This year, I went to the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet at Victoria Memorial. There were two parts in which the show was held; one, in Son-Et-Lumiere and
USA based author Lopa Banerjee shares books and memories, she once picked up at Kolkata Book Fair, and misses the sea of humanity on a book trail Year 2006. In a mildly comforting, breezy late January afternoon, I was wading through a sea of unknown faces
Miss World Manushi Chillar was at Bengal Chamber of Commerce recently. Nirmalya Mukherjee, economic advisor to Bengal Chamber got up, close and personal through some candid shots. GB shares his exclusive photo shoot Miss World 2017 Manushi Chillar, has taken her medical studies to the platform
Two historical sites belonging to two different eras --- one a 5th century Buddhist site and another a 19th century old historical site linked to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, in South 24 Parganas will come together to form a new tourism circuit in Bengal. The
On an official tour, Prof Ena Ray Banerjee of CU traces knowledge in all its glory. Read to know more about centuries old archives she found at the Asiatic Society Something about archives always inspires me. Something reassuring. That there is a continuum. That nothing one