The Forest Department has taken an initiative to plant trees to keep the severe heat waves at bay. Due to lack of forest in South Dinajpur, trees will be planted in 80 hectares of land in various parts of the district. Presently, empty streets, grounds
National Award winning director and Master film maker Goutam Ghose returns to Hindi films after 12 long years. His new Hindi venture is called ‘Rahgir’. The storyline of the film draws inspiration from Prafulla Roy’s book ‘Borshae ek din’. Ghose’s new Hindi film was initially
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,
He is Atikul Sheikh, and he is a student of class VII. Yet on a hot summer noon during his school vacation, you might see this young boy, a resident of a Birbhum village out on his cycle with an ice-cream box. What for? Why
A hand pulled-rickshaw is an iconic symbol of Old Kolkata, a colonial legacy left by the British Raj. Once, it was almost like a palanquin of the middle class of Kolkata used for short trips. It is a relic of the past which has somehow
Gobhir Mallika --- Imagine a gigantic black hole having a poetic name and that too in Bengali! But this imagination will soon come to be true with black hole - Sagittarius A being renamed as known as Gobhir Mallika. Astronomers around the world will soon
• What were the highlights of your documentary on Nazrul Islam? I had made a two hour long documentary film on the poet. I started the project in 2014 and completed it in 2017 and the first premiere show took place in London University. It was
Kolkata’s love for biryani is simply inexplicable and uncontrollable. Be it any occasion, a sudden pang of hunger or a major mood swing, a plate of biryani is enough to act as an elixir. There is no dearth of biryani joints in Kolkata but only
Supriya Roy is a great story-teller and ex-teacher of Modern High School for Girls. She is also the great grand daughter-in-law of Sarala Ray, grand-niece of Jagadish Chandra Bose and a member of the Brahmo Samaj Raja Rammohan Roy was not just any other social reformer.
“Why should boys have all the fun?” Riding a bike is no more the monopolization of men. Gone are the days when women would impatiently wait for their husbands or boyfriends to take them out for a bike ride. With the passage of time, women