Tea is something more than a drink for us—it is a way of being. From the first sip of the day to the last cup before sleep, tea will be by our side like a friend. In Bengal, cha is all emotion, memory, and poetry;
The Jagadhatri Puja has begun — a festival whose history is deeply intertwined with the name of Chandannagar. Last year, during an adda at Maya Art Space, three residents of Chandannagar gathered — Dr. Bishwanath Bandopadhyay, former professor and writer; Debashis Mukhopadhyay (Demu), retired journalist
Jagadish Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore were contemporaries, being just two and half years apart in age and they were indeed very good friends. However, Mahalanobis was more than 32 years younger than Tagore. By the time he went to Cambridge for the Mathematical Tripos
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore’s universally relevant and time-immemorial messages on the continuity of life are reassuring. Though many objects may have disappeared from our lives, what ushers in hope is the undying Ashramic philosophy of daily existence. As he said in one of his
‘I was waylaid by hope to reach out for the mirage (Ashar chholone bhuli ki phol lobhinu haai)’ … a colourful embossed line written on the right side of Rabindranath Tagore’s wedding card! In an era when wedding planners decide on what will be written in
Prabha Shankar, Anupam, Bhaduri, Bhawani. These are just random proper names, right? Wrong. These are four of the more than 200 varieties of mango grown in West Bengal, possibly the highest number in India, and no matter how much we love our mangoes, most of
Every person, in their formative years, learns that "cleanliness is next to godliness." The students of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan (Institute of Fine Arts), have taken the initiative to promote such a message by making a structure entirely out of the plastic waste that was lying
In Hindu mythology, the cosmic dance of Shiva symbolises the interplay of dynamic and static divine energy flow, containing the five principles of eternal energy — creation, preservation, destruction, illusion and emancipation. “Modern physics has
Oriental Seminary School is very near to Jorasanko. This is the place where Tagore received his primary education and Gurudas Bandopaddhay began his educational career. He passed the entrance exam from Kolutola Branch School in 1859 and was a very good student. Belonging to an
He is known as the Father of Cricket in Bengal. His contribution to cricket in India was also immense that gave him the sobriquet of ‘W.G. Grace of India.’ Yes, we are talking about Sarada Ranjan Ray, elder brother of author Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. Sarada