Another feather on West Bengal Government’s cap. Bengal’s Health and Family welfare department has won the Skoch Award in the Governance Gold category for its project on ‘Waiting Huts for Pregnant Women.’ The honour was conferred on August 29 in New Delhi. Previously the state
He has done 500 kidney transplants. He has used yoga with medicines to cure kidney patients. He has started Kidney Care Society to create awareness about kidney ailments. He has even led rural awareness campaigns to teach everyone about which food to avoid for kidney
Ma left me very silently. She just concealed herself somewhere, away from us. I was at that moment mid-air, returning to Kolkata from Mumbai. My brother was in Kolkata, may be was busy with his work. Baba was alone at home then. Ma left her companion,
Kiran has just passed her Higher Secondary Examination from a government school in Purulia. But everyone in and around her village of Hutmura knows her as Bengal’s Pad Girl! Along with her studies, she has taken up the daunting task of spreading awareness on menstrual
What is so special about Rajendra Phuchka stall of Dhakuria? Well, it has won the Khaibar Pass Award and has been tagged as selling the ‘Best Phuchka In The City.’ Rajendra’s culinary skills in turning a simple phuchka to a delicacy is well-known to his
It was on 8th January 1917 that Rabindranath Tagore gave a lecture at the Oliver Theatre of USA. He spoke on Nationalism. The audience at Lincoln loved his speech so much that they gifted Tagore a printing machine for the students of Santiniketan. The name
Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan has signed an agreement to invest Rs 100 crore in SastaSundar Healthbuddy, a digital healthcare platform with a mission to provide consistent access to affordable healthcare in a convenient manner. SastaSundar is supported by a network of independent pharmacies called Healthbuddies
It was probably one of the most powerful acting of Shashi Kapoor’s wife Jennifer Kendal Kapoor as the old Anglo Indian woman living in Kolkata. 36 Chowringhee Lane was also a directorial debut for Aparna Sen. The film was very well received upon release. The movie
The Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) and Virasat Art Publication (VAP) jointly commemorated One Hundred Years of Martyrdom at Jallianwala Bagh with a multilingual poets’ meet, Shaam-e-Shahadat at ICCR. The evening’s programme started with the anchor, Ms. Rituparna Khan, introducing the tragic incident that
Princeton University’s Lewis Center for Arts named Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jhumpa Lahiri as the new director of the University’s Program in Creative Writing. Lahiri, a Professor of Creative Writing on the Princeton faculty since 2015, succeeds 2017-19 U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, who has