From the 26th to 30th of August, 2019, Jhargram's Khwaabgaon (Lalbazar) village witnessed a Potochitra Painting Workshop focusing on tribal and traditional art, organised and funded by Lalit Kala Akademi in collaboration with Chalchitra Academy. Chalchitra Academy is a Kolkata and Jhargram based cultural organization
As lynching deaths across the country go on a rise, Bengal government passed a new law in the State Assembly yesterday making it punishable by death penalty. The West Bengal (Prevention and Lynching) Bill 2019 makes lynching punishable by a life long prison term or
Filmmaker-actor Rituparno Ghosh, who was known for both his obsession with his sexual identity as also for his sensitive and sensible handling of stories, might have crossed the line of eternal bond. But he will always be remembered for the quality of his cinema that
Ironical as it may sound but even if we say we are all born as One, still we are all different. We are all Special in some way or the other. So, you can imagine the children we label as differently abled how truly special
Another feather on West Bengal Government’s cap. Bengal’s Health and Family welfare department has won the Skoch Award in the Governance Gold category for its project on ‘Waiting Huts for Pregnant Women.’ The honour was conferred on August 29 in New Delhi. Previously the state
He has done 500 kidney transplants. He has used yoga with medicines to cure kidney patients. He has started Kidney Care Society to create awareness about kidney ailments. He has even led rural awareness campaigns to teach everyone about which food to avoid for kidney
Ma left me very silently. She just concealed herself somewhere, away from us. I was at that moment mid-air, returning to Kolkata from Mumbai. My brother was in Kolkata, may be was busy with his work. Baba was alone at home then. Ma left her companion,
Kiran has just passed her Higher Secondary Examination from a government school in Purulia. But everyone in and around her village of Hutmura knows her as Bengal’s Pad Girl! Along with her studies, she has taken up the daunting task of spreading awareness on menstrual
What is so special about Rajendra Phuchka stall of Dhakuria? Well, it has won the Khaibar Pass Award and has been tagged as selling the ‘Best Phuchka In The City.’ Rajendra’s culinary skills in turning a simple phuchka to a delicacy is well-known to his
It was on 8th January 1917 that Rabindranath Tagore gave a lecture at the Oliver Theatre of USA. He spoke on Nationalism. The audience at Lincoln loved his speech so much that they gifted Tagore a printing machine for the students of Santiniketan. The name