If you were to draw up a list of the architectural wonders of Bengal, Murshidabad district would probably top it. Remember, we are talking about a former capital of Bengal, before the British founded Calcutta and made it the capital of British India. The story
Indranil Halder is an entrepreneur living in Australia who is enthusiastic about preserving the heritage of Bengal Standing tall for past 375 years, lies the famous Amadpur Zamindar bari in the heart of Bengal’s Burdwan district. The bonedi bari belongs to the landowners - The Chaudhuri’s
For him, no woman was Charitraheen. All women, even a courtesan or a prostitute was pure. That’s why Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay is probably one author whose maximum number of works have been adapted for movies, both in Bollywood and even in Bengali cinema. And they
Can any one name the first metal road of Kolkata? Radharaman Mitra, the scholar who had enormous knowledge about the history of Calcutta metropolis, wrote in his ‘Kolkata Darpan,’ in 1706, land survey of the three villages, Sutanuti, Kolkata and Gobindapur were carried out for
What can be written or said about Digha that hasn't already been written or said? One of West Bengal's most popular tourist destinations, Digha in Purba Medinipur is indeed the Brighton of the east, for those who have heard of the famed English beach reasort.
Once a French colony, Chandarnagore aka Chandannagar is a thriving French language and cultural hub of Eastern India that flourished in Bengal even before the British laid their colony. But Chandannagar is also famous for another reason --- it’s Light Makers. They who illuminate the
Did Swami Vivekananda establish the supremacy of a religion at the Chicago World Parliament of Religions? Or did he bring forth a philosophy, a way of life, that Hindu religion is based on? It was this day when in 1893, Swami Vivekananda delivered his speech
The late author Leela Majumdar once said Dhiren Bal reminded her of her brother Sukumar Ray A cat called Bhutu, his parents, and his friends live in a picture-perfect village somewhere in Bengal. All of them have neat little houses in their neat little village, all
In a major breakthrough, a global team of scientists led by Dr Kanak Saha, Associate Professor of Astronomy at Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) has discovered one of the earliest galaxies in extreme ultraviolet light. AstroSat, India’s first multi-wavelength satellite that has
For 130 years, the majestic Eiffel Tower has been a powerful and distinctive symbol of the city of Paris, and by extension, of France. The 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall tower is, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure of