https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg84F-vZCyk Speaking of tourism in West Bengal, most people probably think of north and south - the Himalayas and the Bay of Bengal respectively - first. What about east and west, though? What about Nadia, for instance? Famed as the district that is home to Nabadwip,
At an age when most toddlers are busy with cartoons, games, or colourful toys, Anish Sarkar from Kolkata is racking his brains on the chessboard, which led him to set a new global record on Friday. Anish became the youngest player in the world to achieve
Dream and hard work – the two motivators that helped Malay Debnath to turn Rs 100 into a 200-crore business empire. We often hear Bengalis do not like hard work and hence they often lose the race to the more hardworking communities of India who
As Americans head to the polls today, US time, to elect the 47th president, New York City’s diversity shines through not only in its neighbourhoods but also on its ballot papers. New York City is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, as it
Chittaranjan Das had tried his hands even in poetry. But we hardly know of that aspect of this genius and mentor to many revolutionaries during India’s freedom movement. He established his reputation as a great poet in 1913 after the publication of the first two
Uttam Suchitra - Bengal's all-time favourite onscreen couple Legendary Bengali matinee idol Uttam Kumar with his charming and infectious smile and Suchitra Sen with her bewitching beauty and charismatic looks were the first on-screen couple to hit the screen and reign as an unbeatable romantic pair
Restoring the modesty of women, and that too way back in 1890s Kolkata! Surprising, isn’t it? In 1890s, the British in Bengal faced a new challenge --- how to restore privacy of women at numerous bathing ghats along River Ganges. Often men were found thronging the open ghats to
While flipping through some old dusty records in a dark alley of Kolkata, a few years back, I had stumbled upon ‘H. Bose’s Records’ and that’s how I got hooked to the legacy of Late Hemendra Mohan Bose, who established a spectrum of industries, 127