Here is a fabulously shot and designed calendar with a tremendously powerful message to address one of India’s most potent present-day issues – the impasse at Kashmir. And that too coming from two of Kolkata’s best creative minds --- travel aficionado Deboshree Ganguly and world-renowned
The skies are more blue than usual, and the sharply lined cotton clouds seem straight out of a baroque painting. There are an unusual number of advertisement posters being put up on the sides of the main roads, and the skeletons of temporary stages are
She has played women’s cricket at the state level and today she is a green activist, collecting tonnes of flowers dumped by hundreds of Community Pujo organisers single- handed. Bhaswati Bose of Gariahat has taken up a green endeavour this year. She is going to
Well, this is no fight over fishes. But battle of spices! With the pattering raindrops, Hilsa catch in Bengal goes up. The ilshey guri, makes way for better hilsa spawning and netting. Many of us must have tried Bekti paturi at home. But the forgotten
Dutta House of Baguiati has set this Durga Pujo with a difference. Believers in the teachings of Swami Vivekananda, the Dutta household celebrates Durga Puja every year in their own home, and also perform the auspicious Kumari Puja. Kumari Puja is the worship of Maa
Mark the date. 12th January 2020. Your little champs will not run on a school sports field, but on a trail run, popularised across the world that enhances the fitness of children and also brings them closer to nature. Since last few years JBG Trail
It seems like Kolkata celebrates some festival every two days. After all, her people luxuriate in "bhuri bhojon", and a holiday every other day seems like the perfect opportunity to nurture our well-oiled tummies! But the mother-of-all festivities is Durga Puja, the largest street festival of
• What drew you to Bengal’s folk art and songs? Being a resident of Santiniketan, folk art comes naturally to me. I started learning music at the age of 6. My first teacher was a folk singer in All India Radio. Later, I moved on to
• How were you inspired to come to the singing frame? I was drawn towards music since childhood. Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, old Bengali songs, almost anything and everything musical attracted me. Then I started writing my own songs and performing them before college
