If you thought the time has finally arrived to save nature, in the backdrop of COVID 19 and Cyclone Amphan, then you are wrong. For we should have started doing it long ago, if only we had followed the teaching of visionary Rabindranath Tagore. We
Ishani Chaudhuri is a student of class IX, Indus Valley School, Kolkata. Ishani has shown her interest in drawing, sketching and painting right from a very young age. Apart from her academics, she loves to take part in other co-curricular activities like singing and dancing. The
One of the largest water tanks of the world, Tala tank of Kolkata, built and inaugurated by the British in 1909 surprisingly went unscathed during Cyclone Amphan. When one of the fiercest cyclone of the century ravaged various installations of Kolkata and whole of Bengal,
The talented octogenarian thespian struggled to fight abject penury and lived a life of ignominy in a crammed one-room rented house in the infamous red-light area of the city. Her profession had long discarded her and fame had eluded her but she did not know,
Pallavi Majumder is a painter and an installation artist from Kolkata. At present, she is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Doctoral School of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest. She completed her BFA from Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and MFA
"আজ মঙ্গলবার। পাড়ার জঙ্গল সাফ করবার দিন। সব ছেলেরা দঙ্গল বেঁধে যাবে। রঙ্গলালবাবুও এখনি আসবেন। আর আসবেন তাঁর দাদা বঙ্গবাবু। সিদ্ধি, তুমি দৌড়ে যাও তো। অনঙ্গদাদাকে ধরো, মোটরগাড়িতে তাঁদের আনবেন। সঙ্গে নিতে হবে কুড়ুল, কোদাল, ঝাঁটা, ঝুড়ি। আর নেব ভিঙ্গি মেথরকে। এবার পঙ্গপাল এসে বড়ো
Since last one month the Calcutta Medical College was making headlines for all the wrong reasons, from media reporting how patients have been ill-treated, how COVID patients were kept waiting in a queue to how many doctors and nurses were falling prey to the virus
Before the COVID 19 pandemic appeared on the face of the earth, who would have thought the name ‘Corona’ would instill so much fear and resentment among people globally? This is the first time that people have been forced to live in detention, secluded from
It all started in 1905, when Lord Curzon divided Bengal. This was the time when Ahmed Hussain, a descendent of Nawab Wazid Ali Shah, a migrant from Lucknow came to Kolkata and opened a small restaurant on the ground floor of a Chitpur Hotel. Today
Twin lakes, forested tracks and vast stretches of virgin hilly tracts --- Jorepokhri is truly the Lake District of Bengal. The name itself suggests a pair of lakes with a beautiful viewpoint amidst Sinchal Forest at an altitude of 7,500 feet above sea level. Located