Benjamin Franklin once said: ‘Out of adversity comes opportunity.’ Likewise, the recent pandemic has opened new avenues as the world quickly adapted to online mode. And now music lessons go online with village Kirtaniyas imparting khol lessons to students abroad. Yes, Bengal’s khol goes to
Tanmoy Chatterjee A photographer of national repute, Tanmoy has taken some beautiful shots of Kurseong in the rains, and GetBengal is thankful to him for giving us an opportunity to publish his photographs Traditional wisdom says that the monsoon is not the best time to visit a
The term Dokra (or Dhokra) comes from the Dokra Damar tribe, an extensive ethnic community now spread all across India. This tribe produces the traditional metalsmiths of West Bengal and Odisha, who have given Dokra artefacts their name, and their technique of lost wax casting
Rural cooking videos have picked up in recent years and the familiar frame of frail, aged women seated in their mud-plastered courtyards or farm fields with traditional earthen cookwares, Shil-nora or Sil-batta (grinding stone) and mortar and pestle, ready at hand and cooking up a
When it comes to authorship, folk songs can be hard to pin down. Many of our most popular folk songs have been around for what could be centuries, with their original creators remaining forever unknown. Such as the song ‘Bare bare ar asa hobe na
American artistic gymnast and Olympic Gold medalist Gabby Douglas once said, “Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood, and tears. My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE), a leading organization in the treatment of endocrine glands and diabetes worldwide awards endocrinologists for their outstanding contribution to the field of medicine annually. This year, Dr Sujoy Ghosh was selected for the AACE Outstanding International Clinician Award
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 second wave in India from mid-February this year, about 800 doctors have died of the virus. This terrible piece of data was announced by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in the build-up to National Doctors’ Day, which is observed
The West Bengal government, under the guidance of the Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has officially launched the West Bengal Student Credit Card Scheme, through which students will be provided loans for higher education. The decision to launch the scheme was taken at a state
After the scorching heat of the summer months, monsoon is a harbinger of relief. But it is also the season when vector-borne diseases including malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, scrub typhus, yellow fever and lymphatic filariasis thrive. Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17 per