Dipesh Verma of Siliguri had dance in his DNA. Else how can a nine-year-old boy enroll himself in dance classes and tell his parents he was going for Maths tuition? Well, he had his sister as his confidante. But Dipesh’s love for Western Ballet started
A fresh row surrounding Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s death has started recently after the film Gumnaami is set to release soon. In the middle of all this, to put an end to the controversy, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff wrote a letter
If you have so long wished to ride a sea-plane but realized a trip to island countries of Maldives or Mauritius was out of your reach, you can fulfill your dreams soon. Bengal’s beach town of Digha is set to get a Sea-Plane service that
Shelter Promotion Council of India will hold their 21st National Conference on various facades of Environment and Sustainable Development in context to architecture and the city at Kolkata from today. A think tank of architects and environmentalists will discuss the future of our city in
Often as we cross street taps in Kolkata, we have found the water falling incessantly as they are either broken or do not have stop corks or some are stolen. In an age when we are talking about water conservation, as most Indian cities are
The serene temple town of Murshidabad, popularly known as Kumarpur or Kumarpara lies to the south of Baharmpur Railway Station. The mesmerizing Radha Madhava deities that were brought from Vrindavana in 1609 AD, by a devotee named Vamsivadana Ghosh are a big attraction of Kumarpara’s
For all those who lived in Calcutta in the ’60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, had a tryst with Bangla Natok or theatre that was so enriched in that era, that there would be queues before the ticket counter to buy tickets for the first show. And
She has fought gender bias at every step and today 66-year-old Chandrima Shaha becomes the first Indian woman to hold the post of President-elect of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). What is even more inspiring is that Shaha was also the vice-captain of West
There was a time when fibre glass Durga idols made way to various cities of USA and Europe months before Durga Puja. Now villages in Nadia are churning out brass and bell-metal idols of Lakshmi and Ganesh that have found a big market in USA.
Lady Diana had a different take on life, despite being born into royalty and married to one of the most popular and sought after royal families of Europe, she was the ‘People’s Princess.’ In the later years of her life, she had dedicated her time