Remember Pagla Dashu? One of Sukumar Ray’s most endearing and favourite characters that almost turned a house-hold comical feature. Pagla Dashu was popular among children for his crazy ideas and inexplicable acts which carried subtle yet hard hitting satire, reflecting a plethora of issues. This
Just imagine a drone moving above your house! Well, do not feel threatened, not an army drone looking out for terrorists, rather your food delivery drone ready with your ordered lunch or dinner. Yes, Zomato has been experimenting with drones as delivery boys. These machines
If you get down at Kalna station and utter his name, none of the toto drivers will ask for money. When you enter his locality and try to locate his house, his neighbours will make sure that the guests of their beloved ‘daktaar babu’ face
Janak is a 8-year-old boy who comes every month for blood transfusion to NRS. He is a patient of Thalessaemia. He will suffer if he doesn’t get blood at the right time. Yet the doors of NRS was closed today and he started crying before
Imagine that you are in the middle of a dense forest with wild animals roaming about. The tweet of the birds will certainly reach your ears. You will feel the wilderness and the untamed essence of wildlife and forests combined. Not even for a moment
Though we have grown up reading about Florence Nightingale, who became a cult figure due to her service for wounded soldiers, we hardly give that respect to nurses, who form the pillar of the care-giving community. They are not untrained caregivers like aayahs, rather they
Bengal’s medical fraternity and history has been always as rich as the land. NRS Medical College today is reeling under the pressure of allegations and counter allegations, have turned into a seat of protests and assaults with junior doctors’ safety and security at stake. With
If the little boy of eleven would not have summoned up the courage to flee from home at the age of eleven, we would have probably missed out on his wondrous literary creations. Dinobondhu Mitra was born in Chouberia village of North 24 Paraganas on
Birds are extremely vulnerable to heat. More than animals and often die from heat strokes. With the day and even evening temperatures going out of control, the feathered pets are worst affected. Those who have exotic birds like the South American macaws and parrots have
When it comes to Bengali detectives, we only tend to talk about Feluda, Byomkesh or Kiriti. But have you heard of Bengal’s female detective, Mitin Mashi? Yes, the character created by late Suchitra Bhattacharya? Mitin Mashi evokes a sense of nostalgia among many as she