While walking past the central business district of Kolkata, have you noticed a non-descriptive building of a hotel standing on the side of the road just opposite the Telephone Bhawan? Spence’s Hotel, the first ever hotel of Asia was opened to public in 1830 by
The narrow lanes of Kiron Shankar Roy Road and Old Post Office Street are otherwise a mesh of old shacks serving a hot cuppa or bread omelets to hundreds of litigants, clerks, and lawyers who tread the footpaths every other day. These footpaths are also
Apopular food website with 20 million followers across various social media platforms recently recommended Kolkata as one of the top 11 food destinations in the world. Kolkata is the only Indian city on the list of World's Best Food Destinations in 2023 prepared by international
The red laterite path led through cashew plantations as dusk arrived slowly and silently to the village of Khawabgaon, the last village on the border of West Bengal and Jharkhand. While travelling through Jhargram recently, I had the wish to drop in at Lalbazaar, a
Arguably “the most popular, translated, and adapted Indian author of all time”. In a nutshell, that is the sentence most online biographies use to describe Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is easy to see why. To take just one example, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) lists over
How about breaking the shackles of patriarchy in India by bringing up our sons as caring and loving human beings? Can we save our daughters just by shouting about women's rights on social media or from podiums, without educating our sons on how to reciprocate
Start your year afresh with interesting events that will crop up in Kolkata this January. GetBengal presents a list. Event - ‘Oh Solitude!’ - an exhibition of Sanat Kar’s paintings Date - 16th January 2023, Monday – 25th January 2023 Wednesday (except Sunday) Time - 2 p.m to 8 p.m. Venue
Faith is all encompassing. It is present in every aspect of our lives. Faith can lead people to leave all the earthly comforts and just devote their body and soul to the almighty. A coalescence of faith can be witnessed around the Ganges, the holy
The Alipore Zoo remains as lively as ever this winter with a nineteen-hectare area sprawling with the best of flora and fauna. But do we know that along with the British, the Indians, especially the Bengalis had a huge contribution towards the building of the
This is the 160th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. Born in 1863 and died in 1902, he just lived for only 39 years and worked for around 10 years, but his visions are appreciated even today. As a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, he was