Ace photographer Santanu Paul travelled to different spots of Kolkata to capture faces behind the Gangasagar tale Sab teertha baar baar, Gangasagar ekbar….. One goes to various pilgrimages every year, but to Gangasagar they just go once. That’s what the saying goes. But what is so special
I still remember a scene from the famous movie Amrita Kumbher Shandhane, a film made on the sidelines of Kumbh Mela, where in the end due to a stampede, lives are lost. I was a school student then, quite young, but the impact of this
When I first read about Sujata, the mother of corpse number 1084, I could not hold back my tears. I was a college student then and had always been very curious about the Naxal Movement that had rocked Kolkata years before I was born. Heard
A spider web is the most common sight found in the corner of a dilapidated room which is not cleaned regularly. Until now, it had been looked upon with a lot of disgust, but now, the researchers of IIT Kharagpur have found a great possibility
A dingy cell of British India’s notorious prison, where revolutionaries were treated like dogs, a burly British police officer using clippers to just uproot the nails of a man, tied to a chair. The man in question sits steady, without even a flicker of his
Mousumi Banerjee is a researcher and professor based in USA. She is a lover of art too and spends most of her time with three M’s --- Maths, Music and Medicine. She gives an exclusive interview to GB • You are a scientist as well as
When recent news of poachers killing rhinos in North Bengal’s sanctuary, hits the headlines, one wonders how the greed of human recklessly will destroy the wildlife of the world. Be it the poachers of North Bengal, Nepal, Assam killing rhinos for money, or the educated
Kalighat painting or pat was not a well-recognized form of art and took years even to be marked as a proper art form. Today it has a wide influence in various forms of art throughout the world. Kalighat Pat is the only indigenous art of
Panshkura of East Midnapore has always been well-known for its flower production. Various types of flowers, especially rose, rhizoid, gladiolas, golden rods and chrysanthemums are cultivated here throughout the year, that find place in the wholesale markets of Kolkata and other states of India. However,
Remember that stern-faced mother who refused to fit into the submissive docile archetype, or that emotionally strong silent matriarch, the mother of Rina Brown who forever refused to let the world know of her true identity? Well, that personality was none other than Chhaya Devi.