Social activist, teacher, molecular geneticist, Mukti Banerjee wears all these hats. She also believes in a better, healthier lifestyle for all. And actually gives you the tools to achieve it. While not a household name in Bengal, perhaps, she has acquired a fair bit of
How does one join the dots between heritage cycling and wetlands? The Heritage Committee of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry has successfully merged World Bicycle Day and World Environment Day by organizing the 1st Edition of ‘BCC&I Pedal through Heritage.’ It is first
WWe have found it impossible to come up with a catch-all definition for the crafts of Bengal. But we can tell you this much: going through the Crafts section at The Bengal Store, you will gain an excellent idea of exactly how talented Bengal’s artisans
I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. When American poet-novelist Langston Hughes penned these lines, he was probably unaware that over half-a-century later in India, a profound believer in the mysteries of nature would embark on a soul-searching journey of a
King Kahn was only one of the sobriquets bestowed upon him, and from all accounts, it was richly deserved. Bayern Munich and Germany’s former goalkeeper Oliver Kahn will go down in history as one of the greatest and most successful football goalkeepers of all time,
Have you heard of Mahalanobis Distance? Even though most of us are taught in school about the palladium-iridium bar that is the standard of metric measurements, we are hardly taught in our school syllabus about one of the greatest statisticians of India --- Prasanta Chandra
Representative Image The folk dramas of West Bengal are dynamic and divergent though mostly created and performed by illiterate or semi-literate people of rural Bengal and passed down orally from one generation to the other. These performances, blended in with ritualistic observances, are chiefly meant for
December 23, 1912. The day India’s capital was to officially shift from Calcutta to Delhi. Lord Charles Hardinge, the British Viceroy, sat atop a splendidly decorated elephant as he prepared to make a grand entry into the new capital. Out of nowhere, a huge explosion
Was Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah really an arrogant, cruel, spoiled brat who was indulged to excess by his doting grandfather Nawab Alivardi Khan? Was Mir Jafar really a barefaced traitor who offered the immensely rich province of Bengal to the British on a platter? Was Robert Clive
He did his PhD from IIT Kharagpur in Rural Development, she did from the same IIT in Economics. Little did Anirban Nandi and Poulami Chaki Nandi realise that when the twain met, they would go on to create a revolution that will help thousands of