Just like Marc Riboud once said: ‘Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second,’ well-known senior bureaucrat Atri Bhattacharya probably felt and practiced that passion in real-life. His exhibition of photographs at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) gallery testifies the
Saheli Mitra is a journalist, author, poet and runs her own content and walking tour company Tales, Talks & Walks But ‘I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You’… yes I fell in love a hundred times with you… every time I walked past your broken
Bengal is a land of architectural splendour and they are often found on the temple walls. One such unique temple is found in Hooghly district’s Bansberia. Erstwhile Zamindars of Dutta family had built an array of Hindu temples in this area, under the Mughal patronage,
Kolkata of 1970s was a revolutionary city, where protests were the order of the day. After all, the fire that burnt within, gave form to a city that is still hailed as the intellectual capital of India. Often wall graffiti proclaiming slogans like “Chinese Chairman
The plains of lush green and fertile Bengal have always boasted of the best varieties of paddy since time immemorial. Not just one of the leading states in paddy production, Bengal has also given to the world some of the unique varieties of rice with specific
The 1930s was an epoch-making decade in Bengal. This was a time of great socio-political upheaval following rapid urbanization of Kolkata. Revolutionary activities were on the rise as did repression by the British. In 1940, a slim book of poems in Bengali named Padatik, was
The Bidhannagar Police has taken up a new initiative and is all set to launch a marathon stressing on the need of safety and empowerment of women. By hosting the event, the police force wants to send across the message to citizens that Kolkata and
Often during our tour to Darjeeling, we miss the charm of its suburbs. The Himalayas never disappoints me and it didn’t during our recent winter tour. It was meant to be spent in solitude and I did so at the cascading rock fountain of Barbotey,
The year was 1934. In Malad, Mumbai, a new film studio was being set up. Co-founded by Devika Rani and her first husband, Himanshu Rai, it was called 'Bombay Talkies'. The London-returned young couple had a dream -- to radically change Indian cinema. Devika Rani Rabindranath Tagore’s
If Bengali literature has pampered our children to Thakurmar Jhuli and Goopi Gayen Bagha Bayen, Russian literature has enriched children of a generation in Kolkata to attractive Siberian fairytale characters from Olga to Misha. Even today, Russians produce a large number of children’s books to