Remember Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay? The genius doctor who despite creating world’s 2nd test Tube baby while experimenting here in Kolkata, was heckled by his colleagues and repeatedly transferred? None recognised his feat in those days and Dr Mukhopadhyay was forced to commit suicide. In memory
A couple of months ago, Soumya Das from Nadia district made India proud after winning the title of Mr Universe 2019, organized by the World Fitness Federation at Seoul, South Korea. Soumya achieved the feat after 67 years since any Bengali won the iconic title.
Kolkata will get a new museum at Town Hall emphasizing on the city’s heritage quotient. The museum will be exclusively on Kolkata’s past and historic events. The museum project is being executed by a group of heritage enthusiasts of Purono Kolkatar Golpo group and IIT
It’s true that some of the very best ideas in human history were imagined by visionaries and it is often their giant stature that overshadows everything and everyone around them. Take for instance, the case of Dr Ronald Ross, the British physician who received the
The prized Royal Gallery of Victoria Memorial that had so long harboured priceless paintings of Vereschagin, Zoffany and Abanindranath-Gaganendranath Tagore was out of bounds for the general public. Now it will be thrown open to all and will display among its various paintings, the famous
It was indeed a terrible saga in the political history of West Bengal, much macabre than the pangs of partition that Bengal had seen in 1947. Nearly 1,700 refugees from East Pakistan were massacred by police and communist cadres during Jyoti Basu’s rule in Bengal.
People say hard work and challenges really do turn us into the people that we are meant to be. We would not grow and learn if we were not challenged. At least that is the adage that keeps the mother-daughter duo, Pratima and Rakhee Poddar,
The very mention of ‘Deb Sahitya Kutir’ brings several childhood memories, from our favourite comics Hada Bhoda to Batul the Great, from Chhobite Ramayan, Mahabharata to that pink-covered Borno Porichoy. Even the grand old pink mansion at 21/1 Jhamapukur that houses this erstwhile publishing house
A soon to be released biopic with Vidya Balan and Jisshu Sengupta in the lead, traces that unknown aspect of Shakuntala Devi! It was October 5, 1950, when the world around saw Human Computer Shakuntala Devi, on a BBC show hosted by Leslie Mitchell, giving instant
GB was at Aahare Bangla, the mega food event held every year in Kolkata. Watch this vibrant food video to know what were lay smiling from the plates of food lovers!