Bengalis have a bond with rice that cannot be fathomed. There is hardly any Bengali household where rice is not considered a staple diet. Bhaat and that Bhaat Ghoom are indispensable connections with Bangaliyana. These days, lives have become busier. We often depend on restaurant
Chandannagar Museum A new feather has been recently added to the erstwhile French town of Chandannagar – a renovated museum at the Chandannagar College that will act as a treasure trove of historical artefacts hitherto not seen. “The Chandannagar Museum has been opened to public now
Kaaler jatrar dhwani shunite ki pao? Tari rath nityoi udhao, Jagay ichhe antarikshe hridoy spandan, Chakre pishto andharer bokhyo phata tarar krondon…. Can you hear the sounds of the immortal time passing by? The Chariot of Time passes in the vicinity of the deep darkness of the universe creating
One might be interested to know what existed on the plot where the famous temple of Sadharon Brahmo Samaj was built and is still there. Swami Vivenkananda’s brother, Mahendranath had mentioned that around 1867-1870, there was a pond owned by the Ghosh family of Than-Thane
Padma Shri Takdira Begum, Birbhum If poet Jasimuddin’s Nakshi Kanthar Maath depicted the love story of Shaju and Rupai, a different tale is crafted on the silk and tussar wonders of Bengal, be it a saree, or a blouse or a scarf --- the Nakshi Kantha
Nabanita Mandal, a resident of East Midnapore was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 when she was only 17 years old. It was the deadly Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a kind of Haematological Cancer. It seemed the world had come to an end even before it bloomed. But
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj The temple of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj on Cornwallis Street still holds memories of a religious and social movement that would take Bengal far ahead of its times. Behind it this house, was a huge courtyard that led to the publicity center. This
Remember that scene from Gorosthaney Shabdhan? When a group of people are trying to bring down spirits in an old building and Feluda speaks in a ghastly spooky tone of a ghost to snatch away a treasure that he needed to investigate. Well, planchette scenes
Joy Nitai… a call that everyone uses to greet the other in villages like Ketugram in Burdwan. For these are the villages that still hold on to the traditional music of Bhorai Kirtan, a branch of Vaishnava cult songs that saw its birth in Bengal.
20 Cornwallis Street House No 20 on Cornwallis Street was the premise of Arya Kanya Mahavidyalaya. Prior to the school, this house was the office of Banga Darshan after it was re-launched and also housed the Majumdar Library and Kantik Press. Later, Kantik Press vacated this house