The tribal villages of West Bengal, including those in Purulia, West Midnapore, Bankura, Jhargram and Birbhum have taken up several measures themselves to stop the deadly Corona Virus from entering their villages. Villagers have voluntarily initiated measures of social distancing and isolation to fight the
Here is a rustic village that gets its name from a ‘point….’ Bindu (in Bengali means point), where one gets a plethora of touch points to sit back and ponder. This last village of North Bengal on the Indo-Bhutan border is really a destination for
Have you heard of a strangely named dish called begun-puri? You must have heard of begun pora, that many Bengali households cook as an alternate to the North Indian begun bharta. Well, this is not just a strange dish as suggested by renowned author and
How do you feel when you’re running a marathon, and once you are this close to the finishing line, the finishing line disappears? Well, that is how students in India felt when their last few exams were postponed with the outbreak of the novel Corona
In recent times, India has become a significant trading partner with Australia and we have an Australian Consular General office in Kolkata. Even a century ago, India was an important trading partner, especially, the imperial trading presidency of Bengal and port city of Calcutta to
As the global pandemic of COVID 19 continue to spread, the mental health of every individual is getting impacted. People are worried and schools are shut down in this period which has a big impact on the education system too and when it comes to
Sip N Bite is a café with a difference. Tucked away within the handicraft boutique ‘Motherland,’ near Charu Chandra College in South Kolkata, this cafeteria is run by a young group of specially-abled youths. Some suffer from down syndrome, some from autism. Their lives have
Gopiballavpur, approximately 200 kilometres from Kolkata, is a small village on the banks of Subarnarekha River, which presently falls under Jhargram district of West Bengal. But it is not just any other village. Rather it is a mysterious historic temple town, which dates back to
Darjeeling’s Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) has launched a ‘21 Day Big Boss Indoor Challenge’ with attractive prizes for winners to motivate people to stay at home during the nationwide lockdown amidst Corona virus scare. The HMI is offering an innovative online challenge to both HMI
Born and brought up in Bengal, Pratyush Nag presently resides in Florida, USA. The first reaction of Americans to the Coronavirus scare was to buy toilet paper! And to buy plenty of it. No one could understand why! For those of us with Asian origins, we