Bikram Singh Khangura was a dreamer and a poet. Kanika Bandopadhyay often called him ‘Kobi,’ as he loved penning down lines himself and infusing rhythmic words amidst lines of Rabindrasangeet. Bikram often talked to the trees, the fallen leaves of Sonajhuri and listened to their
Two 3rd year Engineering students of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Department of Jadavpur University, have come up with a sound-based device driven through Artificial Intelligence for early detection of COVID-19 patients in classrooms, work-places, movie theatres etc in a post Lockdown scenario. The device can
Prasenjit Das is a civil engineering student. Born and raised in Chandernagore, Das’ had his interest in painting, especially mythological characters. The #Goviraltostopthevirus project helps one to think about the positive form of the virus. The detailed artwork by Prasenjit Das not only brings out the the
In days of minimal raw materials available for cooking food, probably many Bengali households are doing good during Lockdown days, for we can raise a curry storm with almost anything and everything. Take for example Pumpkin and Gourd. If we can make a gourd prawn
Mohan Singh’s son Bikram was a nature lover. Often, he spent his time cycling through the Sonajhuri forests of Santiniketan, or watching the Palash blooms, seeping in the fragrance of the wild Chhatim trees and then heading towards Patha Bhavan through the Bokul trees. Or
Can you imagine endangered Dolphins playing along Baboo Ghat! Well, this is not a story of fiction, but a true picture of the critically endangered Dolphins coming back to the River Hooghly thanks to the lack of pollution and silence of the Lockdown. The South Asian
Born and brought up in Bankura, Sunetra has completed her Bachelors and Masters from Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata. At present, she is working in Mumbai with an advertising agency, Marching Ants, as a graphic designer. The #Goviraltostopthevirus project is letting people re-imagine the look
An independent film-maker, Ranjay Raychoudhury, has been working in short films; associated with Turtle films production. He has also helped Pritha Chakraborty in making ad-films. Ranjay was a part of the making of the films, The Play (2013) and Inscription of Ashoka. Ranjay, in his childhood,
This is a new addition to the North Bengal circuit and indeed has captured the eye of tourists! Gumba Dara is just 30 kilometers from Darjeeling and provides a quaint viewpoint in the lap of nature. Not high by altitude (around 6500 feet above mean
Have you ever heard of Roman Script typefaces, ‘Ray Roman,’ ‘Ray Bizarre,’ ‘Daphnis,’ and ‘Holiday Script?’—Four new fonts invented by none other than Satyajit Ray, who apart from being one of the leading film directors of the world, was also a master artist. He had