The West Bengal government has been awarded in the category of “Most Pro-active States for implementing RCS scheme” by the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation. The state government has been recognized for increasing communication in the aviation system between different states. West Bengal government is
And finally, Professor Shonku is here, lifted from the pages of Satyajit’s Ray’s famous science fiction series to a theme park in the Rajarhat-New Town area. Though the park was inaugurated last year, due to Pandemic it could not be thrown open to the public.
A giant mural of Satyajit Ray adorning the wall of a Metro Railway building in the Charu Market area of south Kolkata was unveiled on Monday. Chennai-based artist A-Kill painted the mural. Start India Foundation, in collaboration with Asian Paints, is behind the project, called
Kolkata still has many unearthed treasures and unheard tales. GB brings you one such tale in a 2-part series on an abandoned historical site just in the heart of the city that has the grave of one of the last princes of the Pala Dynasty
Love is not always locked on the stones slabs of a street, at times it flows into the sheets of an accounts book too. Lovelock Street of Kolkata has no whiff of romance but is witness to a man who probably started the first Accounts
Home in the World: A Memoir Amartya Sen Allen Lane, Rs 899 As a young Amartya Sen sets foot in Cambridge for the first time, he writes, his excitement of visiting a new place is combined with the grief of severing his umbilical cord from his motherland. The
Bengal and its artisans have been leading practitioners of terracotta art for several centuries now. Beginning with mosques and temples, which were made of terracotta in the relative absence of other building materials, its use gradually spread to smaller artifacts and even articles of everyday
Have you heard the name of Prashanta Chandra? Perhaps not. But this middle-aged man is a familiar face in Mohanpur town of Danton Block, West Midnapore. Even government officials working in Danton Block Development Office (BDO) or the Officer-in-Charge and his subordinate officers of the
When Rabindranath Tagore visited Russia, he was accompanied by a few from his family. One of them was Saumyendranath, the grandson of his elder brother Dwijendranath Tagore. Saumyendranath Tagore is considered to be one of the pioneers of the communist movement in India and was
Piyali Basak is a gritty young lady, a brave woman with determination writ large on her counte-nance. This mountaineer from Chandernagore has several exploits under her belt. In moun-taineering parlance, those who climb peaks above 8,000m are accorded special stature and are called ‘eight-thousander’. Basak