Bengal’s lifeline has always revolved around two passions --- movies and sweets. And when the twain meet, the joy is knows no bounds. As the intellectual capital of India celebrates 100 years of Bengali cinema, the sweetmakers of the city have come up with innovative
India could launch its first ever Mission to study the Sun -- Aditya L1 – as soon as 2020. There are many unknown facts that scientists across the world still do not know about the Sun and Aditya 1 spacecraft that will orbit 1.5 million
For those who love palaces and flowers in all their hues, Murshidabad’s Kathgola Palace is their ideal destination. Popularly known as the Kath Gola Bagan, the garden harbours a four storeyed grand palace, a sprawling garden of roses and a temple that has a 900-year-old
Imagine a 60-year-old Sabyasachi Chakraborty playing the role of Feluda at the age of 60! Well, he did it and he did it with elan. Though the fictional sleuth created by Satyajit Ray was actually a young detective, suave, smart and intelligent. But Sabyasachi matched
Girish Chandra Sen was a Bengali religious scholar and translator. He was a Brahmo Samaj missionary and known for being the first translator of the Qur'an into Bengali language in 1886. Sen taught for a short while at Mymensingh Zilla School before engaging in journalism
Kolkata often throws up timeless experiences where one feels the past has stood still. Just like it does, if you tour around the grand Victoria Memorial in the heart of the city, thanks to the band of horse carriages that still retain the old-world charm
Street food in Kolkata is like religion, so much so, that we can go for ages singing sentimental paeans on street food. The connoisseurs of street food are fiercely loyal and can lock horns and draw daggers if provoked. They earnestly believe and proclaim Kolkata’s
Shei Shomoy… the multiple award-winning book, where poet-novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay pushes himself beyond the frontiers of the ‘well-made novel’ into the fascinating world of family and period history, reportage, travel narrative, folklore and ethnography. A central achievement of the novelist lies in the manner, in
Sir Edmund Hillary, who was one of the first two individuals to conquer Mt. Everest, once said that – “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” It is absolutely true, as perhaps the most important thing a person needs to scale a mountain peak or
Have you ever been to the Armenian Holy Church of Nazareth built in Calcutta in 1688? Well, its wooden structure was burnt to ashes in a devastating fire in 1707 and in its place stands the present church at Burra Bazar, built on an old