While passing in front of the Indian Museum, has it ever occurred to you why we call it Jadhughar? What is the magic associated with this place? You can witness the magic of various eras in every corner of this place. Be it the dinosaur
Shoojit Sircar is up and on with his new production on Udham Singh’s biopic and the shooting is slotted to start off this March. To be released by 2020, it is expected that Sircar will come up with another superhit just like his previous Madras
She had fought poverty, lack of training, scarcity of food, challenges of having six toes on each foot. Yet she excelled and made India proud in the 2018 Asian Games, by winning the Heptathlon, something that no other athlete had done before. Swapna Barman’s inspiring
The terracotta charm of the Jor Shnrenir Mandir of Pora Maatir Haat reverberated with the classical rhythms of Bengal’s only classical music gharana, at the recent Bishnupur Music Festival. It was a one-of-a-kind music festival that blended tradition, art, architecture and music. Organised by the
Till 1867, Singapore and a large part of today’s South-East Asia was ruled by the British from their erstwhile capital Kolkata itself. Now Singapore seems to be back to this city, from where the colonial masters once ruled over them. As historian Tan Tai Yong
Over last few elections, the Election Commission has observed a mark decline in the number of urban voters. The reason contributed to it is manifold. Some believe urban voters are fed up and frustrated with all political parties and hence hardly go to the booths
This is the story of transformation of a housewife, who breaks all shackles to come out as a well-groomed woman. But such feminist roles have been seen on Bengali celluloid before too. However, what was not seen much before is the supportive and suave husband
Haat boshechhe shukrobare bakshiganj e padma paarey…. The famous lines of Rabindranath Tagore’s Sahaj Path, celebrating the myriad hues of a rural marketplace of Bengal. Such haats have the rustic charm of the state’s simple village folk, as they buy and sell in these weekly
Kolkata and Bengal has seen many new changes in the last one decade. Not just in the variety of parks and beautification projects that have turned the urbanscape vibrant, but also in the thematic concept of cities and towns, to make them more modern and
The day doesn’t seem to start without that warm cuppa of tea every morning for any Bengali. Having the tea gardens of Dooars and Darjeeling so close by, no wonder tea is a must-have beverage of Bengal. But the usual tea varieties are undergoing a