If you were to compile a pie chart showing the numerous ethnic groups who call Kolkata home, Tibetans would perhaps not even show up as a dot. Which is strange, considering the mark they have left on the city’s cultural landscape. One such mark is
Negative school dropout in primary level… highest percentage of school going children in government schools among all states in India, 90 percent of state’s schools are government or government sponsored schools and not private institutions… Well the above figures are not of the most educated state
It was a balmy winter afternoon in 1994, when he first came across Maya (named changed on request) while chatting in a cyber cafe of Nepal. They turned family friends and Raju Nepali, the lone crusader, who for decades literally worked single-handedly in spreading awareness
This is the 10th year of www.getbengal.com, a journey that we began with a single mission in mind - to talk about only the positive essence of Bengal. For ten long years, we have been doing, month after month, what we set out to do:
About two years ago, the state government formally announced Fishing Cat as the State Animal of West Bengal. However, the common man in the state is unaware of this fact and there is considerable apathy towards the cat amongst policy makers. The logo of the
Can a song immortalize an establishment? Definitely. Three decades ago, Gouriprasanna Mazumdar penned the lyrics of Coffee Houser shei addata aaj aar nei (The chat sessions at the Coffee House have faded away). Suparnakanti Ghosh set the tune and then it was Manna Dey’s turn
Holding on to the adrenaline rush and racing a car down the Formula Three Circuit, was always a passion for John Mukherjee, and now he gifts his city Kolkata, the first F3 car racing team, exclusively from Bengal who will sweat it out not on football
“The birth of two spiritual leaders within a short span of a few thousand years is remarkable and of immense importance. I had this very strong conviction within me that Buddha was reborn as Christ. Buddha had predicted that he would return after 500 years,
New Market, the grand old marketplace constructed by the British in 1874, stands as one of the last bastion of colonial pride. The British shifted their capital from Kolkata to Delhi in 1911 and left India 70 years ago, but the city has not been
It will be a historic ‘Silent Diwali’ and Kali Puja this year. COVID-19 has changed it all for sure, even the celebrations in the festive season. In a landmark judgement today, Calcutta High Court held that sale of all kinds of crackers, both sound and