I was privileged to attend Kolkata Government Art College 155th annual exhibition named ‘Parampara’. The oldest art college in Asia was like walking into Alladin’s cave which housed Bengal heritage creations. Paintings, sculpture and textile were the common techniques used. Like myself there were other
The plains of Bengal’s Murshidabad may seem an unlikely place to grow apples, but that’s not an impediment for the district administration from giving it a shot. Around 20 men from Sagardighi in Murshidabad district had migrated to Kashmir, looking for employment. Most of them,
Haat boshechhe shukrobare bakshiganj e padma paarey…. The famous lines of Rabindranath Tagore’s Sahaj Path, celebrating the myriad hues of a rural marketplace of Bengal. Such haats have the rustic charm of the state’s simple village folk, as they buy and sell in these weekly
All of us at some point in our lives have been mad about that Fountain Pen! Call it nostalgia, call it aristocracy, or just a royal, colonial hangover. Even for millennial kids today, fountain pens though obsolete, have a special collective value for sure. It
The whole of India is waiting for the feat to happen. Once successfully launched from Sriharikota, Chandrayan II will in all probability reach the moon’s southern hemisphere by September. The team of scientists who made this unthinkable happen, is incidentally headed by two women –
‘Shurobhito antiseptic cream Boroline…’ the jingle that we grew up with, radio sets setting to tune Bengal’s very own antiseptic cream in the face of multi-national invasion. And that’s how Boroline entered each and every Bengali home to solve any skin problems, from cuts, swellings,
Soon after crossing Algarah Bazaar, just one sharp hilly bend and we were suddenly in the middle of a thick canopy of cedar and pine wood. Landscape changes so fast here. This was the Munsong Forest. There are no luxury hotels in Munsong, but it
A report published in 1896 in the Daily Chronicle of England could be a valuable eye-catcher to all those in the Nobel committee that ignored Acharya Jagadish Bose because he was an Indian scientist in British India. It read: ‘The inventor (J.C. Bose) has transmitted
Bengali has been officially named as the second most-spoken language in London, followed by Polish and Turkish - with around 165,311 London residents speaking one of the three as their first language. Less than one in 10 Brits (8%) can fluently speak a second language, which
Mocambo, Shiraz, Dilkhusha Cabin, Eau Chew Restaurant, Paramount, Kwality Restaurant, KC Das, Allen Kitchen, Girish Chandra Dey & Nakur Chandra Nandi, Nabin Chandra Das, Bhim Nag…. The list continues. If you have dropped in at any of these eateries of Kolkata one time or the