Written in the end of the nineteenth century, Swami Vivekananda’s poem, Kali the Mother, evokes the Night of Kali as a time of pitch darkness that blots out stars, while on every side, ‘a thousand, thousand shades of Death begrimed and black’ scatters plagues and
Swami Vivekananda often depended on one of his dear disciples Sister Nivedita to carry out his dreams. In 1899, Sister Nivedita was touring the country giving lectures on Vedanta and Hindu philosophy. Her speech on Goddess Kali, created waves amidst a packed audience at Calcutta’s
She was born in 1917 and today happens to be her 100th birthday. But she is still alive and kicking, ready to celebrate her birthday bash with her grandchildren and their families. She is none other than Jyotirmoyee Mukherjee, the erstwhile freedom fighter from Bengal
While on a customary Bijoya visit, artist Partha Dasgupta spoke to famous artist Jogen Chowdhury to find out his take on the city’s Durga Puja and his association with this carnival. Here is an excerpt of the interview that Jogen Chowdhury gave to GB. • Partha
• What is KAHINI? KAHINI to me is the story of fashion and style. I wanted to be a fashion designer and have my own boutique from the age of 14. After graduating from Jadavpur University, I went to NIFT to learn about fashion designing and
How do we define Kishore Kumar? His larger-than-life entity cannot be fitted in a single frame. He was a genius, a man of myriad moods, an enigmatic, crazy, romantic, brilliant singer/actor nay, a total packaged performer -- in short, God’s precious gift to mankind. He
He was a student of Don Bosco Park Circus. And then went on to study at St Xavier’s College. Today, his feature film Ajji, will be competing in the New Currents Section of Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. The films in that section
They often lose their harvest and their money to elephants. As the human-pachyderm struggle intensifies in the villages bordering forests of North Bengal, the state forest department is teaching farmers of these bordering villages how to keep the elephants away. The usual crops grown here
Bengalis are passionate about travel as well as about their fish dishes. Keeping these two factors in mind, the State Fisheries Development Corporation along with the tourism department has launched a unique concept called eco fish tourism.People who are enthusiastic about angling can pay a
If you happen to pass by the Panagarh base, there is every possibility that you get to see paratroopers hovering in the sky, or parachutes making safe landings. And they are not a part of any air show, but regular training modules of the Special