Jalpaiguri’s ‘Lalmohan’ sweets have been a gourmet delight for the people of North Bengal since long. Phoolbari of Jalpaiguri was once a de-serted town, where refugees from Bangladesh’s Myemensingha district had relocated after Partition. One of them, Manindramohan Ghosh is said to have started making
He was the quintessential ‘Everyman.’ With a crown full of unruffled, matted hair, the strap of a much-used, shabby cotton tote bag hanging from one side of his lean shoulder containing useful tools – his sketch books, pens, pencils and ink bottles and a very
Are you trapped in a soul-sucking corporate job and desperately looking for ways to squeeze out a couple of days from the grind? Take a short weekend break and head to Monchasha and you will be rejuvenated. How? Well, for one, you can leave the
It is beyond our imagination to envision the life of females in 19th-century colonial Bengal. On the fragile shoulders of the girl child lay the burden of keeping the patriarchal structure of the Hindu family in place. Most girls from middle class and upper class
Happiness is a double decker bus…Sitting at the front of the top deck on a double-decker bus. Excellent, you can see forever. Commuters who availed those cherry-red double decker buses in Kolkata till the mid-1990s, turn nostalgic and misty-eyed when they are asked to share their
In May 1898, Calcutta saw a huge plague epidemic. It was during this time, when Swami Vivekananda along with his disciples and Sister Nivedita started relief operations immediately to help the afflicted. The plague epidemic that seized Calcutta created mass hysteria. Other than the relief
With the Corona Virus spreading fast across the globe and World Health Organisation declaring it as a pandemic, scientists across the world, from Israel, to India, to US and Canada are trying to invent a drug or a vaccine to fight the deadly virus. One
Pottery has always been an integral part of Bengal. Beginning from the Chalcolithic period (the Chalcolithic period refers to that part of Old World prehistory wedged between the first farming societies called Neolithic, and the urban and literate societies of the Bronze Age) down to
In India, cha /chai is not just a cup of tea to kick-start the day - the thick sweet drink is an integral part of the rhythm of life. With or without milk, tea is here to stay and rule our hearts and minds. New-age
Bank frauds and bank crises in India is nothing new. It has been an integral part of Indian financial history and in 1913, John Maynard Keynes after surveying the state of banking in the country, wrote in Indian Currency and Finance, “In a country so