Kolkata often throws up timeless experiences where one feels the past has stood still. Just like it does, if you tour around the grand Victoria Memorial in the heart of the city, thanks to the band of horse carriages that still retain the old-world charm
Shei Shomoy… the multiple award-winning book, where poet-novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay pushes himself beyond the frontiers of the ‘well-made novel’ into the fascinating world of family and period history, reportage, travel narrative, folklore and ethnography. A central achievement of the novelist lies in the manner, in
Sir Edmund Hillary, who was one of the first two individuals to conquer Mt. Everest, once said that – “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” It is absolutely true, as perhaps the most important thing a person needs to scale a mountain peak or
Have you ever been to the Armenian Holy Church of Nazareth built in Calcutta in 1688? Well, its wooden structure was burnt to ashes in a devastating fire in 1707 and in its place stands the present church at Burra Bazar, built on an old
India’s Chandrayaan II is finally up! In another few weeks it will land on moon and India will be the first nation to have sent the satellite to moon’s southern hemisphere. In all probability it will reach the moon’s southern hemisphere by September. The team
Yusra Alam, a class IX student of Delhi Public School, Belgram had taken part in the online Space Quiz 2019 without even telling her parents. Interested in Mathematics and Physics, she was among the two students from Bengal to have topped the quiz and hence
Despite being one of the leaders in science research across the globe, with India scientists topping the list in innovations, scientific development and education never reaches the underprivileged students. A study conducted by Unified District Information System shows that 75 percent of Class 11 and
Some movies are immortalized, through story telling and some by real life actors, who portray the characters with so much of passion and intensity, that they remain sketched down generations. One such role is that of Pather Panchali’s Sarbajaya. It is said author Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
One of the most picturesque drives in the Darjeeling Himalayas is the 40-km drive from Mirik to Darjeeling and vice versa. About half the route is through Nepal border and along the road you come across forests of pine, fir, chestnut and oak. The meandering
Well, it is indeed a sad day for food connoisseurs of Bengal and those sweet-toothed foodies across the world, who used to take the famous Kalimpong cheese and lollipops home from the quaint Himalayan town of Bengal. What tea was to Darjeeling, this cheese and