Left : Professor Sourav Chatterjee and Right : Professor Arindam Ghosh Six eminent scientists, including those from MIT, Harvard and Stanford universities, were awarded the prestigious Infosys Prize 2020 on 2nd December for their outstanding contributions to research and innovation. The annual award includes a pure
For the poet, Gagan Harkara was his peon, the great baul exponent Lalan Fakir was his supplier of betel leaves and one of the palkiwallahs was his Guru -- that’s what Santidev Ghosh writes in his book Rabindrasangit, reflecting upon how important post or letter
Subrata Chakraborty with Meghna Gulzar Subrata Chakraborty, the young, upcoming and famous Production Designer of Bollywood, whose name is linked to blockbusters like Padmaavat, Chappak, Haider, Talvar and so on and who was the only designer to have been called by Hollywood for the Oscar Jury,
As every year, the state government will organise tourism fairs this winter, spread across the districts and Kolkata. The only difference is that this year, the fairs will be held in strict accordance with Covid safety protocols. Beginning tomorrow, that is December 11, the fairs
Raju Nepali, the brave soul from North Bengal, has been diligently working to spread awareness against child and women trafficking. He has been doing this for decades and has not given up the fight to save women and children not just of North Bengal but
That US President Joe Biden’s cabinet includes Kamala Harris is by now a universally known fact. What is not so well known, perhaps, is that the cabinet includes two other members of Indian origin, and one of them is a Bengali. Born in Kolkata, Majumdar earned
Pratik Mondal of Aambera village of Bankura is an entrepreneur in his own rights, and so is 30-year-old Radhanath Mandy, who huddle into a fervour every winter from being a sap tapper to running behind locals, boiling huge pots and pans of jaggery, popularly known
Examining the disappearance of the telegram, the pen and the ink pot or even the gramophone record has had a deep connect with Rabindranath Tagore. But how? Tagore had an intimate and inseparable contact with all of these, particularly telegram that he often used to
Subrata Chakraborty, the young and famous Production Designer of Bollywood, whose name is linked to blockbusters like Padmaavat, Chappak, Haider, Talvar and more and who was the production designer from India to have been called for the Oscar Jury, speaks to GetBengal on his difficult
Sailing down the Hooghly in a vessel of any kind is something many of us have done at some time or other. However, not many of us would have done so on a houseboat, which looks like a plush hotel, and which can easily accommodate