The narrow lanes of Kiron Shankar Roy Road and Old Post Office Street are otherwise a mesh of old shacks serving a hot cuppa or bread omelets to hundreds of litigants, clerks, and lawyers who tread the footpaths every other day. These footpaths are also
Step out and find interesting events around you. GetBengal presents a list of events that you would surely not like to miss. EVENT: Netajism - An event on Netaji’s ideology, life and works DATE - 23rd January VENUE - Jadavpur University TIME - From 2 p.m. onwards CONTACT - 7439627566
“Rehabilitation plays a major role in providing guidance towards treating mental illness. Medicines are not sufficient to bring a person back to mainstream society. In and around Kolkata there are many organisations being established towards serving this noble cause, yet the stigma related to mental
While walking past the central business district of Kolkata, have you noticed a non-descriptive building of a hotel standing on the side of the road just opposite the Telephone Bhawan? Spence’s Hotel, the first ever hotel of Asia was opened to public in 1830 by
Apopular food website with 20 million followers across various social media platforms recently recommended Kolkata as one of the top 11 food destinations in the world. Kolkata is the only Indian city on the list of World's Best Food Destinations in 2023 prepared by international
Arguably “the most popular, translated, and adapted Indian author of all time”. In a nutshell, that is the sentence most online biographies use to describe Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is easy to see why. To take just one example, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) lists over
How about breaking the shackles of patriarchy in India by bringing up our sons as caring and loving human beings? Can we save our daughters just by shouting about women's rights on social media or from podiums, without educating our sons on how to reciprocate
Start your year afresh with interesting events that will crop up in Kolkata this January. GetBengal presents a list. Event - ‘Oh Solitude!’ - an exhibition of Sanat Kar’s paintings Date - 16th January 2023, Monday – 25th January 2023 Wednesday (except Sunday) Time - 2 p.m to 8 p.m. Venue
The Alipore Zoo remains as lively as ever this winter with a nineteen-hectare area sprawling with the best of flora and fauna. But do we know that along with the British, the Indians, especially the Bengalis had a huge contribution towards the building of the
This is the 160th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. Born in 1863 and died in 1902, he just lived for only 39 years and worked for around 10 years, but his visions are appreciated even today. As a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, he was