And here’s to the largest street festival of the world and the grandest festival of India. The worship of Goddess Durga and her children over four auspicious days, is just a few days away and preparations for the pomp and gaiety is at high swing.
From spiritual leader Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa to late Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to even West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, everyone is a fan of Felu Modak’s sweets. Situated on GT Road, one gets to see long queues infront of the shop almost every day.
ITC Sonar, Kolkata is the first hotel in the world to obtain Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) issued under the aegis of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention in 2007. These CERs, also known as Carbon Credits are issued under the Clean Development Mechanism
For the one who flips through the pages of history, you get to know how Lord Rama had performed Durga Puja during autumn, in contrary to the original puja rituals before going to war. To appease Devi Durga, he used 108 Neel Padma (blue lotuses)
The celebration of triumph over evil has started with much anticipation and gusto. Down the ages, from the time of the zamindars of British era Bengal to communist Bengal and then to different puja loving Bengal, the festivities have always kept us alive. They have
Did you know Bengal’s favourite Mishti Doi originated in Bulgaria! Well, do not raise your brows. Tracing the sweet trail of Bengal, one realises that majority of Bengal’s sweet box originated in some European nation or another. The yeast that helps to make Mishti Doi
You might have caught a sight of a tall, lanky, young foreigner with a jhola crossing the tramlines at Gariahat. Or may be spending time at some institute going through books written in Bengali. Well, this young man is not just another tourist who have
Typing in Bengali or Bangla is not an ordeal anymore, because of one man and his invention – The Avro software. Be it script, articles, poems or anything else, people have started counting on the software ‘Avro.’ And can you imagine just at the age
The Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library presented an evening of rich academic deliberations and engagement with poetry titled as ‘Tryst with Poetry in Translation.’ Recently at ICCR. The theme of the evening was poetry in translation, an important area of concern in a multicultural country
Since long Bengalis have been busy talking to each other in English to prove their intellectual superiority rather than in Bengali, a language that has produced some of the best literary works of the world. Now with the Central Government continuously trying to push Hindi