Kolkata Christmas Festival, 2023 Every year they get bigger and brighter – the Christmas lights swaying in the northerly winds as winter sets in with great aplomb in the City of Joy. And with that kickstarts the dazzling fervour on the street that never sleeps –
“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.” ― Thomas Jefferson As
Director Bo Thet Htun, Myanmar At 36, Bo Thet Htun is a young filmmaker, whose work the city had a chance to watch thanks to the 29th Kolkata International Film Festival’s NETPAC Award section. And at the end of the screening, a packed Rabindra Sadan broke
Oxford Bookstore became witness to an extraordinary evening filled with intellectual ardour and historical rediscovery on December 6, 2023, as the book "The Life and Times of David Hare: First Secular Educationist of India" by author Sarojesh Mukerjee was launched. The event was graced by
Thanks to Alipore Zoological Park, you can now easily become a guardian for any animal or bird of your choice. Though the inception of this initiative dates long back, the process of passively adopting animals is becoming more popular with time. The zoo authority claims
Boi-Thek Khana,a library by the Jadavpur Shramjeevi Trust Do you remember the Jadavpur Shramjeevi Canteen that took shape during the Pandemic Lockdown days? And how the Jadavpur Shramjeevi Trust was formed to facilitate the operation of an alternative health centre? Now Jadavpur Shramjeevi Trust is planning
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) scientists have been researching the Sericini species of beetle since 2019. Sericini, incidentally, is a tribe of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are at least 100 described species in Sericini. Recently, ZSI scientists Kolkata along with scientists
Come winter and all roads seem to lead to the Alipore Zoological Garden, also known as the Calcutta Zoo, the oldest zoological park in India and a major tourist attraction that allure sightseers from all across the country. Spread over an area of 46.5 acres,
‘Frequency’ is a 2000 American science fiction thriller film featuring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. A rare atmospheric phenomenon leads to an accidental cross-time radio link that connects a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM
Samarendranath Pandey, under the pen name Swapan Kumar, created the fictional detective Dipak Chatterjee. Trained in intelligence and martial arts, a sharpshooter with an impeccable command of firing a pistol at the target flawlessly, the superspy was cool and savvy; he thwarted conspiracies and brought international