A‘bar ashibo phire Dhansheritir tirey/ ei Banglay..’ The yearning of poet Jibanananda Das to return to the lush green fertile land of Bengal even in the next birth have stirred many a romantic soul down generations. One river that has often come up in his
As winter evening descends gradually, encompassing the surrounding, the faint strains of Ustad Bismillah Khan’s clarinet recital gradually gains momentum. In the twilight, guests arrive in ones and twos and there is a sudden scurry of activities. The wedding venue is filled with beautiful scent
The 94th Academy Awards has a Bengali director shining bright, just like Satyajit Ray did once upon a time. ‘Writing with Fire,’ directed by Bengali director Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas has been nominated in the Best Documentary section of the Oscars this year. The
Horace Mann, a pioneer of American public schools in the 19th century, famously called education the “great equalizer of the conditions of men.” Education is a mechanism that allows even those from the poorest circumstances to succeed and climb up the socio-economic ladder. But in
TIf trees are about grace and beauty then a Tree Walk down Dhakuria Lake displays a rare show. One such graceful tree is the Takoli or Chakemdia Tree with a buttressed pale trunk and roundish peel-off marks. The branches are slender, drooping - leaves feathery
This year heralds the 250th birth anniversary of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the ‘Father of Indian Renaissance,’ founder of the "Brahmo Samaj," and a stalwart warrior against the social evils that plagued Indian society in the 18th century. The West Bengal government has planned to
The fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world, with annual production amounting to 400 billion square meters of textiles, leading to cutting room floor waste of 60 billion square meters. With terms like ‘fast-fashion’, and mass production fuelling the craze,
As India and Bengal mourned the recent demise of Narayan Debnath and his numerous comic characters that literally ruled our childhood, one name came to the forefront – Ramdhanu. The seven colors of a rainbow gave the name to one of Bengal’s earliest illustrated monthly
A critically endangered resident of the Sundarbans is all set to get a new home, beginning a slow journey to recovery from a disastrous decline in the wild. It is more threatened than the Bengal Tiger but far less known. Batagur Baska turtle is presumed extinct
This is a classic case of one old-timer felicitating fellow old-timers, all of them flag bearers of a proud mercantile tradition. The BCCI (Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, not the other one) is a “non-governmental trade association and advocacy group”, as it describes itself.