If you are fascinated with colourful kites fighting amongst themselves in the autumn sky on Viswakarma Puja, then you must be equally fascinated with the history of how they came to Bengal. It was Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, who ruled a land far away from
Shahanshah Mirza is great-great grandson of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and a heritage enthusiast in his own rights Even if the COVID-19 pandemic is raising its ugly head, the kites will still fly high. For the sky has no limits and freedom of the kites when
Calcutta Karavan, in collaboration with ICCR organized a heritage baithak “Jashn-e-Ghalib,” celebrating Ghalib’s life sketch, way of living, his pastimes and poetry with music and ghazals.The event started with a key note address on Mirza Ghalib by the distinguished translator Sanchari Sen, who translated Ghalib’s
How about listening to the tale of the Last King of India sitting at the feet of a British Viceroy, within the confines of a splendid marble architecture, built in memory of a British Queen? Irony, isn’t it? Well, that too from the great-great-grandson of