When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the earth, the most unfavourable consequence that people had to face was to lose their jobs. Even multinational companies were shutting down within days, and what was left was people beseeching for jobs. And that is when social media platforms
News of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has alarmed all the other countries. The number of lives the natural disaster has claimed is astonishing. This led to the thought that if such a disaster were to take place in Kolkata, the buildings that
He was Bishu Pagol. She was Nandini. But well-known theatrician Pradip Bhattacharya's Raktakarabi was about a Nandini who fell in love with Bishu and found her Ranjan in him. Buddhadeb and Runa, two life-term convicts of Baharampur Central Correctional Home (previously Jail), never dreamt they
Check out the events happening in Kolkata this week Krosswindz will be performing live at the Hard Rock Cafe in Kolkata on March 30th at 8:30 PM. The event is free to attend, and it is an excellent opportunity for fans of the band as well
All these years there was a perception that southern states of India grow the ever-worldwide popular coconut in abundance and hence help in the export and marketing of coconuts worldwide, boosting the rural agro-economy. However, West Bengal is not far behind. Thanks to the Coconut Development Board
WPart I of this narrative, which you can read here, described the rise of the White criminal or ‘saheb chor’ in 18th and 19th-century Calcutta, and the heavy involvement of European adventurers in the Chaitan Sil robbery case. One of those adventurers turned approver in the
We often hear the heroic stories of revolutionaries who have given their lives for the independence of our motherland. The huge number of people who had taken part in the freedom struggle and so many lost their loved ones, all for the sake of a
On January 29, 1795, a “gang of white dacoits led by a Bengali guide” invaded the home of wealthy Bengali shop owner Chaitan Sil in Calcutta. Sil was also later known as the father of ‘Mutty Lall Seal’ (Motilal Sil), the famed philanthropist who went
The Asia- Oceania Parkinson and Movement Disorder Conference (AOPMC), 2023 was held in Kolkata recently. It is the largest International Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders and it was hosted by the Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata (I-NK) at ITC Royal Bengal. This stood out
