In an age when children have turned couch-potato with gadgets in hand, watching TV or playing a video game, forgetting how to interact and communicate even with family and friends, West Bengal government’s Information & Cultural Affairs Department has come up with an innovative way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkoTKaeyF_w It is said that each and every wall of Kolkata is a rich treasure-trove of historical resources. They have tales to relate to the discerning audience. Kolkata served as the capital of colonial India under the British East India Company. By the end of the
March 17, 1935. A peace-loving great humanist and poet-artist sketched the profile of hated tyrant-dictator, Benito Mussolini – one who is held as the mastermind behind World War II. But who was the artist? None other than Rabindranath Tagore. The lines that depict the portrait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBcOoX4CGg0 He loves watching butterflies and birds sitting for hours. That’s how legendary cricketer Arun Lal meditates. In an exclusive rendezvous with an audience of organic food lovers on how he has been fighting his rare neuron-transmitted cancer for over a year, Arun Lal had one
Manisha Pailan is an acid attack survivor who belongs to a village in Jaynagar. She was subjected to an acid attack way back in 2015. But the incident could not stop her. She took it as the biggest learning lesson of her life and started
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wE8WDxplc If you push the ‘past’ button on a Musical Time Machine, tracing Renaissance in Bengali songs, you will probably realize musical creations of Bengal were a confluence of global themes, since the time when Rabindranath Tagore composed Puranoshei diner katha. That button was again pressed
Shob Khelar Shera Bangalir Tumi Football… that famous Manna De song which defines the soccer fever of Bengalis. Kolkata was the birthplace of Indian soccer and over decades the famous clubs of Maidan produced the best soccer players of the nation. Of them Chuni Goswami’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOGOJIuZ7s0 Kolkata has always shown enormous love for art and has been a creative platform for budding artists. On the 12th of January 2020, 250 artists from various art disciplines converged on Hindustan Park Road in South Kolkata to be a part of yet another edition
Nestled amid nature in Bankura lies a quaint hamlet. From the highway, a long, dusty, rusty-red laterite soil path leads to Bikna, a village renowned for its ancient Dokra Art form. Connoisseurs of art and craft from all over the world throng to this village
‘I have always believed that the real history is made by ordinary people. I constantly come across the reappearance, in various forms, of folklore, ballads, myths and legends, carried by ordinary people across generations. The reason and inspiration for my writing are those people who