Every afternoon after classes are over, retired headmaster Rabilal Garai is seen with his young students holding hands and taking him down the road. Yes, he heads home with help of his students, as he cannot see anymore. His vision is almost nil. But that
They are just 12-13 year old school kids. Yet their antics on Kolkata streets on their way to school that went viral on a video earned them a place at the SAI or Sports Authority of India. Jashika Khan and her classmate Md Eizazuddin never
Many buildings of Durga Pithuri Lane of Bowbazar are almost 150-year-old. They have stood against the test of time for more than a century. But today they are ravaged, many of them turned to rubbles, thanks to the East West Metro’s wrong calculation in boring.
When you speak of Bengali sweets, you primarily speak of Misti Doi as it is a hot favourite with sweet connoisseurs from across the world. And of the famous old Calcutta mishit doi shops, College Street’s Santosh Mistanna Bhandar stood out. Unfortunately, that very heritage
She spends almost Rs 40,000 a month to feed hundreds of stray dogs. And the meals can fit even a king, meat and rice cooked to perfection. Well, home-maker Nilanjana Biswas of Kalyani is a messiah for strays. To meet the huge expenses of feeding
You no more have to feel guilty of killing animals while eating that mutton or chicken next time! IIT Guwahati scientists have invented meat in their laboratory and have also applied for patent. Professor Biman Mondal, of Bioscience and Bio-engineering department of IIT Guwahati, led
Well, it is indeed a sad day for food connoisseurs of Bengal and those sweet-toothed foodies across the world, who used to take the famous Kalimpong cheese and lollipops home from the quaint Himalayan town of Bengal. What tea was to Darjeeling, this cheese and
A week before Uttam Kumar died on July 24, 1980, he had wanted to meet ‘his Rama,’ actress Suchitra Sen who has often been compared to Hollywood’s recluse Greta Garbo. He called her after watching the movie ‘Alo Aamaar Alo’ on TV, but Suchitra Sen
Dhurjati Prasad Chaudhuri is an academician and ex-professor of management science. He is also an avid photographer Remember that hilarious Bengali movie Sharey Chuattor (সাড়ে ৭৪)? The budding romance under the glare of a Kolkata mess bari, between Uttam Kumar as Rampriti and Suchitra Sen as
One of Kolkata’s pioneers in IVF, Dr Baidyanath Chakraborty, at the age of 90 years, has decided to give up his institute to ICMR so that research can be carried on as before. Several corporate organisations had approached him that were interested in running the