The Buddhadeb Dasgupta Memorial Trust, in association with the Forum for Film Studies and Allied Arts, has organised an event in commemoration of the master filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Celebrating Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Master of Surreal Art, will be held with a great deal of revelry on
In the second episode of our walking tour of Kolkata, we cover the rest of the BBD Bag area, where we started out last week. As it was last time, the route this time is short and crisp, beginning from St Andrew’s Church, which we
West Bengal’s social support scheme, Lakshmir Bhandar, has again brought a positive change in the life of a student who had no money to fill his mobile internet on which he was studying for NEET, the competitive examination that acts as a stepping stone to
The wooden tram that once used to ply on the streets of Kolkata, gets its place of honour at the Heritage Transport Museum in Gurgaon, near Delhi. In fact, this tram will be the main attraction of the museum on its fourth anniversary. Only this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWIP5uhrr9Y “It was a sunny summer afternoon and a little after five o’clock we were at our destination: a sprawling villa in Stadtbergen, a suburb of the city of Augsburg in Bavaria, southern Germany. In the entrance hall we were greeted by Anita and the family.
Baranti (or Barhanti) is a small tribal village in Raghunathpur subdivision of Purulia district. Situated beside Baranti Lake, it is a still growing, and quiet, tourist destination. Not too far from Asansol (about 38 km), Baranti is located amidst the Panchet (Panchakot), Gorongi, and Biharinath
For most of us, Barrackpore probably brings to mind Mangal Pandey and his famous act of rebellion that led to the mutiny of 1857, which ended the rule of the East India Company. As punishment for his rebellion, Pandey was hanged by the British, allegedly
Dr Ramendra Lal Mukherjee, an engineer and scientist from Kolkata has invented an effective pocket ventilator that will not only save COVID19 patients, but will reduce Black Fungus contamination through shared ventilators of hospitals. Dr Mukherjee said to the press: “The device could be a
It is tempting to begin this piece with a detailed description of the beauty of Darjeeling, but we suspect that would merely be repeating the obvious. No matter how many times you have visited the ‘Queen of the Hills’, its spectacular natural charm refuses to
Remember getting lost in the world of adventure of Shankar, while flipping through the pages Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhya’s Chander Pahar? Shankar, the central protagonist of the novel was the 20-year-old youth who belonged to an impoverished village. He hated the idea of a dim future and