Rajshekhar Basu, better known as Parashuram, once gave her the nickname “Kalo Pakhi” (The Black Bird). From then on, her Santiniketan home was also known by that name. And what a home it was—filled with music, laughter, and the presence of Bengal’s finest minds. It echoed with
Historians of North Bengal University have unearthed the fascinating tale of how Darjeeling Mail was once upon a time known as Bullock Train, as it was run by bullocks and at times by elephants during the British era. Darjeeling Mail is one train that is
The endangered art of Serpai carving from Lokpur is making a slow but steady comeback
‘Bhau Bhau', Bengal's first ‘dog magazine' The human-canine bonding can be traced back to at least 15,000 years ago to the Bonn-Oberkassel dog, who was found buried alongside two humans. For centuries, dogs have been man's best friend and the two have co-existed and bonded seamlessly.
His mountains spoke a thousand words, rose to the sound of lonely music, his landscapes were miniature formats of the original horizons, yet Bireswar Sen’s work has hardly been re-evaluated in recent times. Maybe because this artist who lived in British India was too shy to come into
Yeh to aapki marzi hai ki aap unhe bhala kahein, ya bura (it is up to you whether you call him good or bad)…’ Thus opens the voice-over description of the eponymous protagonist in Mrinal Sen’s 1969 Hindi film Bhuvan Shome, delivered by a 27-year-old man
13, Cornwallis Street Though Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, great grandfather of Satyajit Ray and one of the prolific children’s authors of Bengal was born in Mymensingh district, he was educated in Calcutta. While in his graduation days from Presidency College in 1884, he possibly joined the Sadharon
Many of us know of Kadambini Basu nee Ganguly, who was one of the first female graduates of India and later went on to study medicine and became one of the first female doctors of India too. But do we know there was a man
IKolkata’s jewel, the Eden Gardens, is the oldest and second-largest cricket stadium in India and third largest in the world. Established in 1864, the stadium currently has a capacity of 68,000. But the checkered history of this place draws us all, not just the historic
National Theatre Some people chase their dreams. Bhubonmohan Neogi lived his. In a time when theatre was just beginning to find its voice in Bengal, Neogi gave it everything he had – not just money or time, but his entire life. But his passion led him