The Great Bengal Quiz that started in November last year across seven different locales of the state ended with a Grand Finale in January this year. The State Tourism Department in association with Kolkata Quiz Festival, organized the Great Bengal Quiz to bring in greater
‘Ashwiner sharodo praatey…Beje utheche aloko monjir’ Remember that deep baritone voice that have woken up Bengalis since ages during Mahalaya? Birendra Krishna Bhadra is synonymous to Mahalaya for decades. His rendition of Mahisasura Mardini has been one memory that has been simply untarnished down generations.
Atreyi is an ancient river which has its origin in Siliguri, near Baikuntha Forest and flows through the Dinajpur District. This river even finds mention in Mahabharata. If Teesta river is famous for Berolish fish, Atreyi deserves a special mention when it comes to Raikher
SPCKraft recently organised Vaama, a one-day “Women in Arts” Festival. SPCKraft, an inter-disciplinary art collective founded and led by performing artist Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee and director Urvashi Basu, who is also a well-known interior designer of Kolkata, used the platform as a prelude to International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJpsUbCLrfc It was a proud moment for Bengal, specially for the State Tourism Department to have received the recognition for Sunderbans as the ‘Most Iconic Landscape.’ India Today Tourism Survey and Award ceremony held on 25th February, 2019 at Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi announced this
Times have changed but to our dismay many age-old rituals that reflect social patriarchy have remained unchanged. During the Vedic period, girls were married off even before they reached puberty. This was the time when a ritual like ‘Kanyadaan’ was introduced where a female child
Even though Santa Claus lives in the North Pole, he undoubtedly loves Kolkata a lot and makes it a point to descend on the City of Joy every Christmas, hitting the streets in a new avatar. Kolkata hosts one of the largest Christmas carnivals of
Jalpaiguri is showing a new way to combat the menace of country liquor that keep on taking lives of people, most of whom are poor and addicted. Jalpaiguri District Superintendent of Police and his officers wanted to save the tea garden workers from the ordeal
He not only discovered the first invitro fertilization technique of India, under him the first test tube baby of India Durga was born in 1978. But Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay of Kolkata never got his due recognition. On the contrary his feat was ridiculed at by
There is a different kind of pleasure associated with unraveling history, 800 years old that has been deeply buried in the sands of time. Be it the royal palace, pre-historic lake, the gigantic corridor---- these incredible elements from the long-forgotten pages of history can all