Where the world makes its home in a single nest… That’s what best describes Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan and Visva Bharati. The University is not just another temple of learning, rather it is Tagore’s world vision that gets reflected, and not his own name. It is not
LPP programme at Bishnupur Tourism propoerty A few years ago, the West Bengal government had announced a unique project titled Lok Prasar Prakalpa (LPP), designed to showcase the various traditional performing folk arts of Bengal, primarily in the field of music and dance. As part of
The extravagant Jagaddhatri Puja will no more be the same in Chandannagar. Thanks to COVID-19, for the first time in the century old history of this erstwhile French colony, the Heritage Jagaddhatri Pujas have been reduced in their opulence and splendour to a large extent.
If the British gave Kolkata its erstwhile colonial architecture, it is often believed the Portuguese much prior to the British, left a sweet trail for Bengal. None can deny the Portuguese influence in a variety of Bengal’s sweets. Better to say they taught our moiras
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” - Albert Camus Directed by Dr. Amit Ranjan Biswas, Bridge portrays the importance of life and 'living.' The making of the film had started in June 2013. The film, starring the legendary Soumitra Chatterjee
The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration partially opened a tourist site that had been lying abandoned for three years, at Jamuni, approximately 15 km from Darjeeling. Perhaps understandably for a region that relies so heavily on tourism for a livelihood, the reopening was driven by locals, who
When the North Indian states of Haryana, Delhi and Punjab are grappling with severe air pollution this winter, like every year, thanks to stubble burning, it seems Bengal is showing the way to an innovative way to tackle this menace. With the COVID-19 looming large
Just a river separates Gadiara from Geonkhali, the first in Howrah district, the second in Purba Medinipur. When we say 'a river', however, we actually mean three. Because three rivers - Hooghly, Rupnarayan, and Damodar - meet here, at two different points, and then flow
A group of Bengali scientists of IIT Kharagpur has been conferred the prestigious ‘Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2020’ last week for developing a mechanism for generating electricity from wet clothes left under sunlight to dry. This path-breaking innovation will address the problem of energy
The world’s largest democracy, India has suddenly come under the loom of intolerance and what else but art and theatre, have always preached peaceful coexistence! In turbulent times, across any country in the world, we have always banked upon art when it comes to addressing