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
In 2015, Norwegian filmmaker Erland Haugen was writing a screenplay featuring Prof Edward Farley Oaten. For assistance, he turned to local scholars and historians in the British city of Tunbridge Wells, Oaten’s hometown, wanting to know more about the man who has etched for himself
Step out and find interesting events around you. GetBengal presents a list of events that you would surely not like to miss. EVENT: Netajism - An event on Netaji’s ideology, life and works DATE - 23rd January VENUE - Jadavpur University TIME - From 2 p.m. onwards CONTACT - 7439627566
“Rehabilitation plays a major role in providing guidance towards treating mental illness. Medicines are not sufficient to bring a person back to mainstream society. In and around Kolkata there are many organisations being established towards serving this noble cause, yet the stigma related to mental
For centuries, ‘Kantha’ has bridged the gap between the rich and the poor in Bengal, and served as a pool between the urban and the rural divide. A form of exquisite embroidery, stitching patchwork cloth from rags, ‘Kantha’ art was practiced by both rural women
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