Last year on May 20, super cyclone Amphan struck West Bengal’s shores and left a trail of destruction in several areas of south Bengal including Kolkata, which was completely devastated. The destruction, unprecedented in recent public memory, resulted in thousands of houses being damaged, low-lying
In November 2019, the Chennai-based Geographical Indications Registry (GIR) announced that Bengal was to retain the Geographical Indications (GI) status accorded to ‘Banglar Rasogolla’. The tag, originally awarded in 2017, had been disputed by Odisha, which had claimed that the origins of ‘Rasogolla’ lay in
9th August 1975. People in Kolkata woke up to a headline: “Television comes to the grand old city.” And thus started the journey of Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata. As we celebrate the Foundation Day of Doordarshan Kolkata today, a missing cassette of Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata’s rare
In 1949, the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) recruited its first woman scientist, Mira Mansukhani. And finally, a little over 70 years later, the 105-year-old organisation headquartered in Kolkata has appointed its first woman director. A classic example of 'better late than never', some might
Looking for Isaac Asimov’s cult sci-fi book, Foundation? Or is it Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell? Anthony Trollope’s The Barchester Chronicles? Such books are not easy to get or some are waytoo expensive. But what if like Alladin’s lamp, you go to a
Within a couple of months after coming to power and holding the reins of governance, the Government of West Bengal, under the stewardship of Hon’ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has gifted the citizens of West Bengal a proud moment, an occasion to rejoice. In the
By common consensus, the world entered the nuclear era with the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Every year, August 6 is observed as Hiroshima Day, and everyone who hasn’t lived in a cave for the past seven decades knows that the atom bomb dropped on
The state's illumination hub. That is how most of us know Chandannagar. Particularly during Jagaddhatri Puja, when the town lights up like a dream. Or when the majority of Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata are dressed up in lights from Chandannagar. With the Covid-19 pandemic having
For the men and women of the British Raj, India was often a land of exile, which offered them very little of the routine comforts they had been used to at home. However, they did their best to address the situation by substituting Western comfort
His voice had a touch of boundless energy, youthful euphoria and a depth of pathos, that none in the centuries to come will probably ever have. And that too without formal grooming in music. Kishore Kumar arrived on the stage of Bollywood at an age