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
It was a hectic and crowded city on the second day of the week. Yet a green corridor was created to carry the liver and kidney of a brain-dead patient from Park Clinic to SSKM. Chinmoy Ghosh’s liver now will find a place in Bidhan
Three years back, Rohit Dolui, from Daspur, Ghatal had swallowed a piece of plastic. He was young then and without any immediate symptoms, his parents also had no clue what the boy had done. But months later, he started suffering from acute breathing problems. His
The miserable death of Sajal Kanjilal, a theatre activist, trained dancer, poet, little magazine enthusiast and a model for artists, left the entire city shell-shocked last week and threw light on the negligence of the Kolkata Metro authorities. The Metro railway had ordered a high-level
If you have ever been to Sealdah station, the crowd must have seemed unsettling. Sealdah station authorities are thus taking measures to reduce the pressure of the crowd. The authorities had plans to increase the number of compartments in the train from 9 to 12