Sindhis are not only great hosts and love their guests, they are also food loving people. The Sindhi cuisine covers a wide variety, which caters to everyone’s taste. Right from nutritious meals to ones those tickle taste buds. I know by now you must be
The medium of art that requires the most intimate human touch and undergoes a radical transformation is ceramic. Be it a pot or a sculpture, its clay can be shaped in several ways such as beating in sheets, pinching, or turning a potter’s wheel. The
CCyclone Yaas which originated in the Bay of Bengal in the middle of May this year left behind a trail of destruction and devastation in West Bengal. It also flooded East Midnapore’s coastal areas. Several villages were inundated due to breach of embankments and pisci-culturists
Zoological Garden, Alipore As we near the end of our walking tour of Kolkata, it is now time to venture to the south and west, and heading to the centre. The best place to start is Rabindra Sadan, from where you can hop onto a bus
Kalna in East Burdwan district is an ancient town on the western bank of the Bhāgirathi river. The town is more popularly known as Ambika Kalna, named after the goddess Kali, Maa Ambika. Now the town is at the centre of attention because of scientist
Who is Joshy Joseph? He is a national award-winning documentary maker, a talented writer on cinema, and the head of the Films Division, Eastern Region. Recently, noted journalist Vidyarthy Chatterjee was awarded the prize for Best Writing on Cinema by the Chidananda Dasgupta Centenary Trust,
Nestled in the foothills of the mighty Himalayas, on the banks of the Kajlani River, the sleepy ancient town and district headquarters of Alipurduar sits like a picture-perfect postcard. The getaway to Bhutan and the Northeast, Alipurduar is historically a part of the famed silk
November was the month when Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose established the Free India Centre in the German capital of Berlin in 1941. This centre subsequently became the hub of his interactions with the then German government, and these are the focus of the tenth edition
In this 3-part series, GB brings a fascinating tale of Rabindranath Tagore’s ancestors, the Pirali Brahmins and how they descended from a converted Muslim of Jessore The exact year when Khan Jahan Ali’s set out for South Bengal is not known but it has been established
Part 4: Did laying of Railways lead to Bengal’s Agricultural Decline? Historians have argued that one of the reasons for the Bengal Famine in 1943 was the stoppage of importation of rice from Burma during the Japanese occupation. But they have hardly enquired why, in the