After the success of Kanyashree and Sabuj Sathi, the West Bengal government has come up with another innovative project called Bangla Gramin Abas Yojna, that is set to touch the lives of around five lakh people living in rural Bengal. The project will be officially
Sheeter Roddur: An art exhibition with a difference, where the winter sun plays along the canvas of three well-known artists of Bengal. Inaugurated at Academy of Fine Arts, on 2nd January, this exhibition features artists Nirmalendu Mandal, Manoj Pal and Swapan Chatterjee. The trio brings
The Broken Home and Other Stories is a lovely compilation of two novellas and six short stories of none other than Rabindranath Tagore. Attempting to translate Tagore has been done down generations, but it is definitely one of the most difficult tasks to translate emotions
A film festival and photo exhibition with a difference is starting today in Kolkata marking the Bangladesh Vijay Diwas or the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. It will continue till January 8 and will be hosted by Bangladesh’s ministry of information. Among the various films that
Here is some incredibly inspiring news from Kolkata! Two class XI students of a Kolkata school have won accolades for a research that could lead to an innovative and cost-effective way of treating cancer! Shuvayu Das Gupta and Syed Roshan Ali, classmates at La Martiniere
Bengal for a long time had been free from Mughal rule, thanks to its geo-political location and also some extremely valiant local kings who resisted any Mughal march.But it was not for long. Mughal emperor Jahangir sent his trusted general Raja Mansingh to subdue Pratapaditya,
Interested in a spooky tale? And that too in a station at Purulia? Begun Kodar is a tiny station lying between Kotshila-Muri under the South-Eastern Railways. It was in the early 1960s that Lachan Kumari, a queen of the Santhal tribe that inhabited this area,
The minute someone takes the name of Shaktigarh in East Burdwan, one remembers Lyangcha! But how did this famous Bengali sweet get its name! In the 1890s, an expert karigar (sweetmeat maker) arrived in Shaktigarh from Kalna to make pantua and ladykany. He was lame
Bengalis love fish. Mention Bengali food to anyone in India, and the first image it evokes is that of fish and rice. Yes, Bengalis are indeed prodigious fish-eaters. A statistical review shows that fish production volume across West Bengal rose from 1447.26 in 2008 (in
