Here is recipe of Chicken Kasha from Supriya Devi’s cook book. It is said she was not just a great cook, but loved treating friends and family to sumptuous food. And Uttam Kumar was a die hard fan of her dishes. We share today one
He is not one bit elated to be a Padmashri Awardee this year. For Sudhanshu Biswas, work is his mission that keeps him going even at the age of 98! He runs homes for destitutes, both for children and adults, primarily in the Sunderbans-Namkhana region,
Kolkata’s floating market in Patuli is no more a dream, it is a reality today. It has started operations and happens to be the first of its kind in India, operating out of a major metropolitan city. The market has 114 boats on a 500m
Aerospace Engineering researcher, Professor Santanu Bhowmick, who hails from Jhargram district, has discovered a unique raw material to manufacture light-weight anti landmine-vehicles.The anti-landmine vehicles currently used by different defence organisations in India usually weigh around 10-15 tonnes, whereas vehicles manufactured using raw material discovered by
As India reels under hooliganism over the release of the movie Padmavat, Bengal has again proved it was far ahead of the rest of India. When 21st century India is impacted by release of a movie, whose protagonist is a queen, a fictional character rather
“When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed” --- Mother Teresa. No wonder, Arpan Roy
The depths of India’s relations with the Netherlands often remain unnoticed in modern times by people of both countries. From the sixteenth century to the earlier part of the nineteenth, however, there had been much exchange that had far-reaching impact on shaping the economies and
Kolkata had been the capital of the erstwhile British Raj and still boasts of a rich cultural history. The city’s long-lost history doesn’t just lie in the buildings of tourist interest, but in its abandoned buildings, old winding streets, laid back nooks and corners. But
Renowned folk art author, archaeologist and historian, Tarapada Santra had a favourite take on the history of Rarh Bengal. He believed names of many villages end with ‘Ara’ meaning a dwelling place or area. Accordingly, those who settled in Howrah, probably belonged to the Hari
As he had promised in his correspondence with Emilie, wife of Netaji Subhash Bose, Sarat Bose resolved to go to Europe with wife Bivabati as soon as possible to meet Emilie and daughter Anita. Later, that year in the autumn of 1948, Sarat and Biva