Tucked away in one corner of Uttarpara stands Uttarpara Bengal Photo Studio, the brainchild of 41-year-old Arindam Saha Sardar. A self-taught archivist and restoration artist, Arindam makes biographical documentaries, curates exhibitions of rare artefacts, collects old still and movie cameras, Bengali magazines of yore, and
The great Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay once wrote that Bengalis as a race looked to their rulers for even the history of their own race, and were experts at forgetting their past achievements. Even if we were to set that aside, we can say with certainty
When any crisis strikes, what reigns supreme is how the community rises to the occasion, how humanity unfolds. A growing number of home chefs, cooks, helpful neighbours are coming together in West Bengal offering to feed COVID-19 patients and their caregivers in home isolation as
To put it blandly, food and Bengal, or food and the Bengali, have always shared a special relationship. The popular theory is that Bengali cuisine is the only traditionally developed ‘multi-course service’ in the Indian subcontinent, similar in structure to the modern ‘service à la
It’s said that science and innovations keep us going. Even though COVID 19 is wreaking havoc all around, a high school teenager from Memari in Burdwan has successfully devised a face mask that can kill the virulent virus at the outset. Her anti-virus mask has
No country has ever stood victorious in a war, unless there is community feeling binding all together, when every person from every walk of life join hands to ward off a war like situation that we all are fighting today against COVID-19 pandemic. West Bengal
A total of 17 new faces, including former national cricketer Manoj Tiwary, are among the ministers in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s third-term cabinet, representing an interesting mix of old and new. With the addition of these 17 names, the strength of the cabinet now stands
“It was in the middle of the night and my Covid positive father was in dire need of oxygen. My mother and brother both were tested covid positive. I was in desperation. One of my friends contacted the volunteers and with great relief they supplied
The second wave of COVID-19 has wreaked havoc in India. People are facing difficulties in finding vacant beds, ICU support and oxygen cylinders to treat themselves or their family members. With the rising trend of COVID-19 cases in West Bengal, demand for hospital beds has
Few outside West Bengal, or even inside the state, are aware that Rabindranath Tagore directed a film based on Notir Puja, a dramatized version of his long poem Pujarini, written in 1899. Notir Puja or its original long poem offer different perspectives on death in