The evening of Mahalaya, September 25, turned out to be a somewhat unique one - for members of the Bidhan Sarani Atlas Club Puja committee, for members of the Kolkata Police Dog Squad, and for all the guests who turned up to watch. The occasion
…Kato biplobi bondhur rokte ranga/ Bondi shalar oi shekol bhanga/ Tara ki phiribe aaj su-probhate/ Jato torun arun gyachhe ostacholay/ Muktiro mondiro sopano tolay/ Kato pran holo bolidan/ Lekha ache ashrujoley… (The shackles in the prison cells are stained and broken with the blood of
Tucked in the forested tribal terrain of Purulia is a 350-year-old Durga Puja where the Sonar Durga or the idol made of gold is kept in a bank vault and taken out with strict security only during the days of the puja. Imagine Ma Durga
When a street turns into a nostalgic journey for generations, a street that never sleeps, a street that harbours memories for centuries, then that street turns into the central theme of a book for sure. One such street that has intrinsically imbibed into the ethos
A beautiful woman lavishly dressed in an expensive Banarasi silk saree, decked with heavy gold and diamond jewellery stands alone, holding the window grills, staring vacantly at the outside world from an enormous room. She is an embodiment of melancholy and loneliness and her expressive
Pather Panchali will remain a timeless classic, not just because of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s soulful display of minute emotions of a family, set in rural Bengal, but for the adaptation of Apu Trilogy on screen by none other than Satyajit Ray. As Akira Kurosawa once mentioned,
Residents of Khardah, a town in North 24 Parganas, are jubilant. A teensy-weensy girl from their township has brought glory to this once-thriving industrial hub on the outskirts of Kolkata. The six-year-old girl has stunned everyone with her brilliant performance at the Science Olympiad Foundation
The results for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) or NEET (UG) 2022, was declared on September 7, 2022. A red-letter day in the lives of all aspiring medical students in India who have been waiting with bated breath for the results that would
In 2010, Debasish Biswas became the first Bengali civilian mountaineer to reach the top of Mt Everest. In 2011, against severe odds, he repeated the record by summiting Mt Kanchenjunga, the world’s third highest peak, and one of its most notoriously difficult ascents. As a young
Did you know India’s first post office was set up at Khejuri in East Midnapore? Yes, that very Khejuri that once turned into a bone of political contention. However, long back in 1850, the scene was different. India was under British rule and Khejuri under