Batik sarees from boutique Swati, the main unit of Kakali Das Kapas Batik is an artwork found on clothes, sarees, dupattas, dresses, and household decor. Well, it has been present for centuries and has been among the favourites of people’s choice belonging to all generations. This
The "miracle man", Dr. James Esdaile, was the father of anesthesia Anaesthetists are important in medical science, as they play one crucial role in any surgery. Ensuring that the patient does not feel any pain or discomfort, or the patient does not suddenly wake up mid-surgery
London Saree Walkathon, 2023, organized by ‘British Women in Sarees’ on National Handloom Day Former Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, announced the Partition of Bengal on 19 July 1905 which resulted in fierce opposition from the nationalists. The Swadeshi Movement was launched on August 7th, 1905
Gita Deyy, a veteran actress in the Bengali film industry If Chhaya Devi was known to the Bengali movie audience as the ‘Mother’ with a personality, Gita Dey was the scheming aunt or mother-in-law. Well, that’s the stereotype she was set into on the movie screen.
Chandrayaan-3 camera designer Anuj Nandi While the world and India celebrated yesterday's space miracle with Chandrayaan 3 successfully landing on the moon’s south pole, making India the first country in the world to land there, a family in West Bengal’s Islampur was ecstatic. Their son and
The main structure in Bhot Bagan math Bengal was a bastion of the early classical Buddhism as a socio-cultural force until the 12th century AD and played a pivotal role in expanding Buddhism in Tibet that eventually became the dominant cultural form in the Himalayan kingdom.
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