Birla Industrial and Technological Museum Driving past Kolkata’s Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM) on what is Gurusaday Road today, not many would probably wonder about its origins, but for those who do, the name of architect Nundlal Guin ought to be important. This is because
For history buffs who love to unveil the past and explore hidden treasures, here’s time to rejoice. The Metro Rail authorities have decided to set up a heritage gallery at the Mahakaran Metro Station in the Dalhousie Square area, which will revolve around India’s freedom
With Poila Baisakh knocking on the door, gifting ideas may be hard to come by, other than the mandatory new clothes, perhaps. So without taxing your brain too hard, why not check out the several new offerings we are about to unveil? After all, the
Ganadevata (1978) Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Ajitesh Bannerjee, Sandhya Roy, Madhabi Mukherjee, Samit Bhanja, Rabi Ghosh, Sumitra Mukherjee, Anup Kumar Director: Tarun Majumdar Two days from now, veteran actor and sometime MP Sandhya Roy turns 81. A three-time recipient of the Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Award, she made her
Howrah is often considered to be one of the most polluted cities of India, so much so that residents of different parts of the city suffer from respiratory ailments. Being an industrial city with multiple polluting factories and units, the air over Howrah is not
The new season first flush Darjeeling tea has received a record price of Rs 23,000 per kg. Well-known tea brand Golden Tips has sourced and purchased these new season spring teas from Goodricke Group's Badamtam Tea Estate. This tea estate is situated at an elevation
No wonder, generations had put her on a mantelpiece to eulogize. No other actress of Tollywood had the power to stir such intense emotions of an entire community, just like Suchitra Sen did and probably still does. She was an enigma whose aura, poise, screen
It was a day just after Dolyatra this year when Raja Das of Kolkata decided to do the unthinkable and climb the treacherous Gojaburu Hills of Purulia without using any ropes or other rock climbing instruments needed to scale such a difficult hill. He did
Pinaki Narayan Maitra, a resident of Deshbandhu Para, Siliguri, made a name for himself by participating in Taekwondo (a form of Korean martial art) in different parts of the world. What is fascinating is the fame he gained during the Lockdown phase by participating in
In 1911, psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the word ‘autism’ to describe a specific cluster of symptoms that were considered an extension of schizophrenia, manifested as an extreme form of social withdrawal. But it was not until 1980 that autism was classified as a distinct disorder