Das Gupta and Company, a heritage bookshop along with a museum - cum - archive on college street, kolkata Reading a book is like teleporting to a different world altogether, it makes everything else around almost disappear. Books are like a travel agent to a fictional
The one thing that cannot be bound by barriers of language, race, or borders of countries is food. And when it comes to Hilsa, the one fish placed as the “fish of kings” in the landscape of Bengal, who cares if the cherished recipe originates
Salim Mian, aka Chand Mia of Kuthibari in Murshidabad, protecting parrots from poachers We humans are destroying and consuming nature at a devastating rate and we have had a profound effect on many bird species. Bird conservation is a field in the science of conservation biology
IKolkata is a city of paradoxes. It is as much parochial as it is modern and lives in the past as much as it lets its past decay. Who would have imagined Kolkata to be a modern, living entity in the 21st century when way
Professor Ashok Kumar Das has been conferred an honorary Doctor of Literature (DLit or Doctor of Letters) from the University of London. He started working as a keeper 60 years ago at Kolkata’s Indian Museum. He specializes in Mughal art and culture history and is being
Pinaki Babu along with one of his disciples, Raju, aka Debendra Mondal They were walking by the road, stopping here and there, and quietly aiming little balls that looked like chocolate bombs from afar. Although the bombs made no sound, nor do they burst out. Why
Few years ago, a well-known media house initiated a unique campaign as a global crusade to promote inclusion of women from all strata – from widows to prostitutes in the Bengali ritual of Sindoor khela during Durga Puja. The move was aimed at changing the 400-year-old Bengali Hindu
Banabitan, popularly known as Saltlake Central Park The second largest open space of Kolkata and its satellite towns just after Maidan is now all set to be an eco-education hub conducting nature tours, walks, and knowledge camps for the students and others. Well, that’s Banabitan, the
Food Street a la Bangkok to be introduced in Kolkata Words do not do justice to the glory of the street food culture of Kolkata. Famed for its large array of world-renowned sweetmeats, Kolkata is equally famous for rustling together various offerings of ready-to-eat meals, snacks,
Farmers in Belda choose to cultivate groundnuts As inflation and expenditure are making a deep dent in the earnings of cultivators, farmers are exploring different avenues to increase their income and simultaneously earn profit by doing low-cost and mixed farming. An example of this came to