The Indian Museum recently witnessed an eclectic Seminar titled ‘Recent Researches on Harappan Culture’ last week. There was a display of various artifacts too that were unearthed from the Harappan Civilisation, one of the oldest civilisations of the world. Eminent academicians Prof. Vasant Shinde, (CSIR
Limelight Building The Kolkata Police Heritage Organisation. Sounds unfamiliar? Not likely to be for too much longer, if former Kolkata Police Commissioner Soumen Mitra has anything to do with it. Formed with the objective of preserving the heritage buildings of Kolkata Police, of which there are
India has several centres for neurosurgery, but none of them in the Eastern region. Patients from our part of the country travel long distances to be treated for neurological disorders, most of them unable to afford the costs involved. When the Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata
Anjan Chakraborty with his wife Arundhati Chakraborty “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Correctly said by Marcus Cicero, only readers would understand the importance of books in life. For most book lovers who love reading and are never without books, the
A Bid for Bengal Having begun in 2014, the Kolkata People’s Collective recently hosted another edition of Kolkata People’s Film Festival. It has been multi-functional in spreading awareness through what it terms 'Pratirodher Cinema' (Cinema of Resistance), through screenings of films not only through an annual
Drafting of Indian Constitution was a monumental task, but what about handwriting it and then illustrating it with relevant motifs from across India? Indian Constitution happens to be one of the rarest constitutions of the world that has a hand-written version in the form of
Representative image Why is West Bengal celebrating Poila Baisakh a day later than Pohela Boishakh in Bangladesh? Why does year zero in Bangabda, the Bengali era, begin in 593 AD after Poila Baisakh and 594 AD before? What, if anything, did Mughal emperor Akbar have to
In August 2020, with the world in the grip of the Covid 19 pandemic, chef Vikramjit Roy abandoned his plans to open a large fine dining restaurant and focused instead on a cloud kitchen, to aid farmers, suppliers, and his staff, not to mention his
‘He was one of the best actors in the world,’ Nemai Ghosh on Satyajit Ray Adapted from Nemai Ghosh’s book Manikda – Memoirs of Satyajit Ray, this GB series highlights on different unknown stories about the great director as told by photographer Nemai Ghosh who worked
Summer vegetables rarely excite the Bengali gourmand the way winter offerings seem to do. After all, how far outside of the box can one really step with a few varieties of ‘shaak’ and ‘dnata’ (stalks, for want of a better translation), jhinge (obscurely known as