It was indeed a terrible saga in the political history of West Bengal, much macabre than the pangs of partition that Bengal had seen in 1947. Nearly 1,700 refugees from East Pakistan were massacred by police and communist cadres during Jyoti Basu’s rule in Bengal.
• How did Silco start and why? It was established in the year 1981, as a trading unit and my father traded in various sports gear and wear of different brands from our shops and showrooms. • You say your father started the company, but you as
Sayantan felt the need when he was giving his first school leaving board exam. It was a need to have a proper reader-writer who would help him in writing his board papers in 2010. For Sayantan is visually challenged. Today he is a teacher and
People say hard work and challenges really do turn us into the people that we are meant to be. We would not grow and learn if we were not challenged. At least that is the adage that keeps the mother-daughter duo, Pratima and Rakhee Poddar,
Often when we talk about Kolkata, the city brings back memories of Mother Teresa, Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Memorial but not so much about the royal game of Polo. We feel the City of Joy is always linked to football, thanks to the lush Maidan,
The very mention of ‘Deb Sahitya Kutir’ brings several childhood memories, from our favourite comics Hada Bhoda to Batul the Great, from Chhobite Ramayan, Mahabharata to that pink-covered Borno Porichoy. Even the grand old pink mansion at 21/1 Jhamapukur that houses this erstwhile publishing house
A soon to be released biopic with Vidya Balan and Jisshu Sengupta in the lead, traces that unknown aspect of Shakuntala Devi! It was October 5, 1950, when the world around saw Human Computer Shakuntala Devi, on a BBC show hosted by Leslie Mitchell, giving instant
GB was at Aahare Bangla, the mega food event held every year in Kolkata. Watch this vibrant food video to know what were lay smiling from the plates of food lovers!
Apu is back again. That iconic character created by author Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and given a new dimension in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959). The next step to that famous ‘Apu Trilogy’ is returning to the big screen again. Directed
I self-published my poem in a cinematic form and that’s how “If they all met at Pushkin cafe” came into being in 2018. After a year long in-depth research I thought to start a literary conversation between three well known Russian poets and writers who