Eastern Railway ran a special train from Budge Budge to Sealdah, yesterday, 19 to mark the 122nd return day of Swami Vivekananda from Chicago, where he had delivered the historic lecture. On his way back to Kolkata from the US city in 1897, Vivekananda had
After the theft of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel medal, that is yet to be traced, authorities are not taking any chance with any of the original artefacts that Tagore ever used or gifted or even received as a gift. One such artefact that lies locked up
Dear Sabyasachi, You have indeed raised a storm over morning cuppas across India, especially in Bengali households over your comment: It is a shame for those who do not know how to wear a saree. Frankly, many Bengali women of the present generation do not know
Kolkata and Chinese --- almost go hand in hand. Be it their food, or their shoes, Bengal has always embraced this community who had settled in Kolkata almost two centuries ago and had a thriving population once upon a time. But their dwindling population in
Finally, Bengal’s leading novelist of all times, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay’s house could be saved from the greed of promoters. This house stands at Tala Park and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad has bought this house from his heirs as at sum of more than 2 crores. This house
Kolkata does not need female auto drivers to save female passengers from getting molested on city roads. There are stray incidents where we do read of ‘Autocracy by Auto drivers’ on the streets of Kolkata, still we can always say we are far safe than
Rakasree Basu has always been a fan of Saswata Chatterjee. Be it as Tutti Futti in Jagga Jasoos, or Bob Biswas in Shobor, Chatterjee has always been Basu’s favourite actor. So no wonder when this Mumbai based producer, decided to make a children’s movie, instead
She worked as a domestic help and sold vegetables under the Park Circus foot bridge to earn enough money to build a hospital for the poor. Subhasini Mistry is undoubtedly an unsung matriarch who is now all of 75 years. But all these years she
The Sunderbans along with parts of south and north 24 Parganas have always had the problem of safe drinking water. In recent years, the quality of water has worsened due to arsenic poisoning of the ground water tube wells, rendering them unsafe for drinking. Not
He is a boy from Ballygunge, who studied at Don Bosco school Park Circus, but spent his summers and monsoons watching frogs! Rather tadpoles, metamorphosing into adult frogs at his grandmother’s place in Assam. This passion for frogs and their life-cycles did not leave him