For history buffs who love to unveil the past and explore hidden treasures, here’s time to rejoice. The Metro Rail authorities have decided to set up a heritage gallery at the Mahakaran Metro Station in the Dalhousie Square area, which will revolve around India’s freedom
With Poila Baisakh knocking on the door, gifting ideas may be hard to come by, other than the mandatory new clothes, perhaps. So without taxing your brain too hard, why not check out the several new offerings we are about to unveil? After all, the
The new season first flush Darjeeling tea has received a record price of Rs 23,000 per kg. Well-known tea brand Golden Tips has sourced and purchased these new season spring teas from Goodricke Group's Badamtam Tea Estate. This tea estate is situated at an elevation
No wonder, generations had put her on a mantelpiece to eulogize. No other actress of Tollywood had the power to stir such intense emotions of an entire community, just like Suchitra Sen did and probably still does. She was an enigma whose aura, poise, screen
It was a day just after Dolyatra this year when Raja Das of Kolkata decided to do the unthinkable and climb the treacherous Gojaburu Hills of Purulia without using any ropes or other rock climbing instruments needed to scale such a difficult hill. He did
In 1911, psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the word ‘autism’ to describe a specific cluster of symptoms that were considered an extension of schizophrenia, manifested as an extreme form of social withdrawal. But it was not until 1980 that autism was classified as a distinct disorder
For those familiar with the works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the 19th-century man of letters considered by many as the father of the modern Bengali novel, the term ‘lathiyal’ ought to be familiar too. Or take the novel ‘Palli Samaj’ by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, reportedly
The West Bengal government has been awarded in the category of “Most Pro-active States for implementing RCS scheme” by the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation. The state government has been recognized for increasing communication in the aviation system between different states. West Bengal government is
A giant mural of Satyajit Ray adorning the wall of a Metro Railway building in the Charu Market area of south Kolkata was unveiled on Monday. Chennai-based artist A-Kill painted the mural. Start India Foundation, in collaboration with Asian Paints, is behind the project, called
Bengal and its artisans have been leading practitioners of terracotta art for several centuries now. Beginning with mosques and temples, which were made of terracotta in the relative absence of other building materials, its use gradually spread to smaller artifacts and even articles of everyday