Balagarh is a non-descript sleepy hamlet, situated 115 km North of Kolkata, by the river Hooghly. It is the heart of Bengal’s indigenous boat manufacture. The center where the boat makers and workshops still uphold a centuries-old tradition is centered around Sripur market. The craft
In the popular psyche, a woman is seen as the epitome of beauty, wisdom, love and care but when there are deviations to this pre-conceived notion of womanhood, it creates a social upheaval. However, if we visit the annals of history, a grisly yet fascinating
He was the mysterious magician Barfi in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen,’ and knowledge bank Sidhu Jyatha in Feluda or Shiv Nath Sharma, the patriarch of the ironically-named Shanti Niwas in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Bawarchi.’ Whatever character he portrayed, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, was a multi-faceted talent,
Anyone who has ever lived in, or visited, Kolkata will have their own opinions about what makes the city special, or what its most memorable symbols are. In true Kolkata style, fierce arguments are likely to break out about whether Victoria Memorial, or Howrah Bridge,
In these uncertain times, entrusting the self and the needs of the self on someone else seems a task, ridden with risqué choices and dangerous consequences. Therefore, depending on one but your own self has become something of an imperative. One must practice self-reliance in
On January 26, 2015, India’s 66th Republic Day, women marching contingents of Army, Navy and Air Force debuted in the national parade at Rajpath in New Delhi. Then in 2018, an all women bikers’ team of the Border Security Force (BSF) had made its debut.
A simple, rather innocuous announcement published in the social media recently caught the attention of netizens. There was a visual of a duck with the announcement written on top -- ‘Duck Catching Competition.’ People were curious to know about the unique sport event while many
So inextricably is the name of Jaldapara linked to the Indian one-horned rhinoceros that one often tends to overlook the other attractions that the national park offers. Of course, the rhi-noceros is practically the entire reason why Jaldapara National Park exists, but there is much
August 12 was first designated International Youth Day by the UN General Assembly in 1999, and serves as an annual celebration of the role of young women and men as essential partners in change, and an opportunity to raise awareness of challenges and problems facing
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts the prestigious Civil Services Examination (CSE) annually to select some of the best brains in the country who aspire to take up a career in the civil services. The selection procedure is pretty rigorous and can be understood