The moon today will disappear for more than one hour when the Earth casts a shadow on the full moon. Yes, it is a rare Total Lunar Eclipse today, and a rare celestial event, because it is a combination of blue moon, blood moon and
What do you need to connect two children from different social and economic backgrounds? You just need words on letters to express and a box of crayons to draw. You do not need rocket-science technology! Well, that is how Sanjukt Saha, a 44-year-old IIT Kanpur
Here is recipe of Chicken Kasha from Supriya Devi’s cook book. It is said she was not just a great cook, but loved treating friends and family to sumptuous food. And Uttam Kumar was a die hard fan of her dishes. We share today one
Shyamal Mukhopadhyay is settled in Nagpur and is a freelance intruder into the world of Bangaliana When Bengalis move out of Bengal, they create their own diaspora, to maintain ethnic and socio-cultural link with their epicenter that is Bengal. I have stayed in Nagpur for quite
He is not one bit elated to be a Padmashri Awardee this year. For Sudhanshu Biswas, work is his mission that keeps him going even at the age of 98! He runs homes for destitutes, both for children and adults, primarily in the Sunderbans-Namkhana region,
Dr. Asok Ganguly is a leading city dermatologist and also an avid traveller This beautiful Byzantine styled building has a great history written within itself. It was built by the British in 1930.The young and brave souls of Bengal revolted against the British rule. Those of
Kolkata’s floating market in Patuli is no more a dream, it is a reality today. It has started operations and happens to be the first of its kind in India, operating out of a major metropolitan city. The market has 114 boats on a 500m
Aerospace Engineering researcher, Professor Santanu Bhowmick, who hails from Jhargram district, has discovered a unique raw material to manufacture light-weight anti landmine-vehicles.The anti-landmine vehicles currently used by different defence organisations in India usually weigh around 10-15 tonnes, whereas vehicles manufactured using raw material discovered by
When I was a school kid my treasured essay-writing was ‘My Favourite Freedom Fighter’ or ‘Amar Priyo Swadhinota Songrami,’ in both English and Bengali. I always wrote about my preferred hero Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, which I believe many Bengali students still do. I waited
Actor writer and director, Biplab Dasgupta, remembers his onscreen ‘girlfriend’ Supriya Devi. GB Exclusive tribute to the actress. I was her onscreen boyfriend in the hit Bengali mega serial Kuasha Jokhon. Undoubtedly, it was like a dream come true for me, as I could never imagine