One of West Bengal's oldest settlements has become one of the first to successfully implement the state government's 'Duare Vaccine' programme announced by Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. We are talking about Chandannagar assembly constituency, where MLA and minister Shri Indranil Sen has taken the
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic has taken over our lives, the definition of what is normal has changed almost daily. We all know that this will pass one day, as all clouds do. Meanwhile, what we still can do is to take small steps towards
With the COVID-19 second wave, we have seen death at its diabolical worst, when all allegories of life appeared to be devoured by the sheer annihilation of human life, dreadful spectacles of which kept circulating in the media, mainstream and alternative. Political pundits continue to
Some roadside city taps still have sculpted lion heads. However, the once flowing mouth of the lion have dried up. The body of such taps resembles Greco-Roman styled pillars. Before they were installed, Calcuttans had only one source of water for drinking and bathing ----
The beginning of this story goes back nearly 135 years, to the year 1888. At Shimla, perhaps the most British of all Indian hill stations, Sir Mortimer Durand, the Foreign Secretary in charge of India from 1884-94, was recovering from illness. As he lay in
Within weeks of coming to power for a third term, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has officially inaugurated the second phase of the West Bengal government’s ‘Krishak Bandhu’ scheme, intended as a boost to the state’s agricultural sector. On Thursday itself, several farmers received the stipulated
A recent letter stirred the hornet’s nest, not above the world’s highest peak, but down below in the world of mountaineering. Kalyan Chakraborty, Secretary of the Radhanath Sikdar Himalayan Museum, wrote a letter to the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI) Principal that said: ‘At the order
On August 16, 1897, Hridaynath Ghosh, manager of Kathalguri Tea Estate in what is now Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal, was found brutally murdered in his bungalow, his throat slit wide open. Topping the list of suspects was his former domestic help Ranjan Singh alias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXN7eoiG9CI Travellers to and from Sikkim have long been aware of the hardships involved in covering the last mile from West Bengal to Sikkim in particular, from Sevoke (or Sivok) onward. The entire burden of traffic is borne by a single road route, which sometimes becomes
In the world’s largest democracy, gender equality is still a distant dream. A patriarchal mindset is still evident, and derogatory comments about women in politics are rife on social media, Sexist remarks are regularly directed at women who contest elections, whether about their appearance, clothing