In today’s era of glamorous cafeterias, the cabin nostalgia has still not perished. The cabin restaurants which date back to almost the time of the British Raj, came into existence to promote the concept of urban dining. The Indian society was way more orthodox and
Around two and a half centuries ago, one of the most picturesque streets of ‘Calcutta’ ran from the north-east corner of B. B. D. Bag to Bowbazar. Termed by the British as the ‘Best Street in Kolkata,’ it was styled like the streets of London.
The familiar sharp whistle of the pressure cooker emanating from the kitchen sounds so comforting at times. The trusted pressure cooker is a permanent fixture in Indian kitchens for decades. But when and how did this humble device cross the sanctum sanctorum of Indian kitchens?
It was the First Book of Reading for Native Children published in 1850. Even Rabindranath Tagore was initiated to the English language through this book in his childhood. Pyari Charan Sircar (1823–1875), was an educationist and textbook writer in 19th-century Bengal. His series of Reading
Mental health seems to be the buzzword today with negative thoughts and feelings surrounding all and depression skyrocketing. Psychoanalysis and understanding human nature with its deep apprehensions has turned most important. In the early 20th-century a Bengali physician had become the first South Asian psychoanalyst,
There was something about Dolly Roy, the first woman tea taster of India, as well as about her quaint shop Dolly’s – The Tea Shop in a corner of South Kolkata’s Dakshinapan Shopping Centre. She was a trendsetter in her own rights, way back in
Orphans who survived the Bengal famine of 1943 If you run a Google search for Sasank Sekhar De, chances are you won’t come up with too many relevant results. That is, if you are among the handful who still know his name. Because not even his
A slice of history enveloped in antiquity, art and architecture -- that is what sums up Hetampur in Birbhum district of West Bengal. When we speak of Birbhum, the world around and Bengalis will always speak of Tagore’s Santiniketan. But hardly we have ever highlighted
Way back in 1997, Narayan Majumdar started his dairy business by collecting milk from farmers in his village on a bicycle. After 23 years of struggle, he can boast of a flourishing dairy empire with three milk processing plants and 22 milk chilling plants spread
There is a common tradition in India of naming places after well-known and successful personalities from different walks of life. The Eastern Railways has followed the custom and there are a large number of stations dedicated in the memory of successful sons of the soil.