• Why did you feel the need to grow indigo again in Bengal? Were you influenced by the historical significance of the product? I have always loved the colour blue and I love nature. I lived in Nigeria between 1993 and 1998, where I encountered exquisite
A barefoot girl in tattered clothes carrying burnt bricks to the factory area. A boy with an ashen face lying on the lap of his juvenile sister, a crumb of bread in his dirty hands. Another trying to balance a row of bricks on his
Saheli Mitra speaks to Biplab Das on how he is changing lives in Sunderbans. • Despite being an IIM graduate, what motivated you to start Kishalay Foundation, instead of continuing with a high-paid corporate job? I founded this initiative in 2013, while working with Accenture. I am
Saheli Mitra speaks to Sauvik Banerjjee, one of the top six technologists of the world with over 150 implementations globally. He is also the chief architect of Reliance Jio, Vice President Digital Initiatives of TATA group of industries and CTO of TATACLIQ. On the sidelines
Have you ever wondered what Tantric meditation of east is all about, or for that matter tantric sex of the west? For centuries literature and various popular sites have woven Goddess Kali with Tantra, primarily because she embodies ultimate female power and energy and her
Saheli Mitra speaks to Sauvik Banerjjee, one of the top six technologists of the world with over 150 implementations globally. He is also the chief architect of Reliance Jio, Vice President Digital Initiatives of TATA group of industries and CTO of TATACLIQ. On the sidelines
Beware! From the stores to the salon, at every step you can fall prey to the toxic beauty of an ever-growing multi-billion-dollar industry of cosmetics and healthcare products. Have you ever wondered, before buying a lipstick or powder, (whose colourful ads endorsed by well-known silver
Can a lost genre of folk music mourning the mysterious disappearance of men in ‘RangoomRangeela’ or Myanmar, relate to the recent human disaster of the Rohingya tribe? Since centuries, Chittagong, a part of undivided Bengal under British rule, had witnessed their men leaving for Burma
Thieves steal 300 kg tomato in Mumbai. Armed men deployed to guard tomatoes at a vegetable market in Bhopal. Well, such headlines are not telly tales, but hardcore reality sweeping Indian markets recently, as those luscious, red and humble tomatoes suddenly decided to act pricey! With
If you do not find Chandan Gupta fly fishing in France, in all possibilities you will find him along a catch-and-release pond of Bengal or by the banks of some North Bengal river with a bunch of foreign tourists, busy hooking an Indian carp or