Nakashipara in West Bengal’s Nadia district may soon become a model for the rest of the country if a NITI Aayog recommendation is anything to go by. National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of
On February 28, 1928, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman announced to the world the path breaking joint discovery with Sir KS Krishnan that was to become known as the ‘Raman Effect’ – a discovery that continues to have a profound impact on modern telecommunications, spectroscopy, remote
The place looks like the eerie front courtyard of a haunted house. The dark, dimly lit tram shed of Nonapukur Tram Depot is a story just opposite to the bustling locality of Gariahat around. But this Sunday it was abuzz with activities as one after
Upcoming events in Kolkata this week EVENT : HARANER NAATJAMAI DATE : 2ND March VENUE : Academy TIME : 6.30 PM EVENT : tête-à-tête - a private conversation DATE : 3rd March - 9th March VENUE : CHHOBI - O - GHOR ART GALLERY 16 Lake Temple Road , Kolkata ,West Bengal EVENT :
Since childhood, most Bengali children are taught the pronunciation of the Bengali alphabet ‘Sh” by referring to a limerick that goes like this: ‘Syam Bajarer Sossi Babu/ Sombar sokaale,/Sorsoriye cycle chepe/ Salir sathe sosa khete khete/ Sosorire swarge jaan’. Throughout the poem, the alphabet Sh
During Gandhiji's last visit to Santiniketan in 1940, a year before Rabindranath’s death, the two discussed the future of Visva Bharati. On the day of Gandhiji's departure (February 19), the poet requested in a letter that, in his absence, Gandhiji should focus on Visva Bharati;
She has stood there for almost a century, like a grand witness to a gradual change from the colonial era to the present-day mayhem, of a city that refuses to stand still. Howrah Station’s famous Boro Ghori turns 94 this year. And though over the
The 1940s were an epoch of transformation globally. At the beginning of World War II in September 1939, India was deeply embroiled in the struggle for independence. Till then, Calcutta was a thriving metropolis and, commercially, culturally, and politically, one of India’s two major urban
Slow-moving, financially unviable, waste of space. In a nutshell, that is how most modern Kolkatans have been conditioned to view trams. Why ‘conditioned’? Well the popular perception of trams in Kolkata has been shaped by the policies of successive governments, but primarily those of the
While taking a walk down the hustling and bustling stretch of Raja Basanta Roy Road, I hardly ever realized this road hid vignettes of a revolutionary past. After all, we always relate North Kolkata to the Old Kolkata and a South Kolkata road that is