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This Poush Sankranti try a lost pithe of Bengal

Dhakai pithe or Bhapa pithe is still sold on streets of Bangladesh

Success of ‘Black’ meals at Kolkata’s Ekdalia Road

Dip into a plate of black rice and black Kadaknath Chicken

Kabir Suman --- Tomake Chai

GB celebrates his 70th birthday

Musician Gautam Chattopadhyay and Mohiner Ghoraguli

The man who deconstructed Bengal’s musical psyche

Buying books in kilos at Bookchor carnival in Kolkata

Were city’s bookworms satisfied with this first-of-a-kind event?

The Kashmir Connect to KIPF

Do not miss well-known photographer from the valley Irfan Nabi

Prasant Panjiar’s photographs talk to each other

The photographer who captured bandits at KIPF

Silence of the Hills – Misty lands of Takdah 

British-era hill station of North Bengal

Kolkata’s street food Ghugni in a new avatar at these spots

Try out some lip-smacking ghugni at these city crossings

Bengal’s famous theatre group Nandikar steps into its 60th year today...

GB traces its journey from Ajitesh Bandopadhyay to Sohini Sengupta

Lopamudra Mitra brings poetry and music at MAYA adda

How poems find a musical tribute through her voice

Rickshawalas of Kolkata find place in a new movie

Kolkata’s rickshaws are as iconic as the city’s historical past

Is Kazi Nazrul Islam more celebrated in Bangladesh than Kolkata?

GB interview with Nazrul researcher Mujibur Rahman

This Eid do not miss Royal’s Biriyani

The biriyani joint of Kolkata that started more than a century ago

Sreyashi Sen, the only woman film distributor in south-east Asia

How she struggled in a foreign land to set up Darpan

Famous singer Sahana Bajpaie speaks on her song in Konttho

In an exclusive interview, world-renowned singer about Shobai chup

In her directorial venture, Churni Ganguly wins hearts

Tarikh creates a subtext within a text

Meet Mangrove Man Pranabesh Maiti of Sunderbans

He has been relentlessly working to protect the fragile ecosystem

Haalkhata, the intrinsic Poila Baisakh tradition

How Haalkhata is important to Bengal’s trade circuit even today

MAYA Art Space adda unearths the sublime pathos of Atulprasad songs

Listen to journalist Ranjan Bandopadhyay and singer Riddhi Bandopadhyay

Another century-old Kolkata movie hall shuts down, end of an era?

88-year-old Mitra Cinema to turn into shopping mall

Chandrabati Devi: Chandramukhi of PromotheshBarua’s Devdas

She gave up her family for the love of films

Agricultural scientist Angshuman Majumdar returns to his roots

Helps farmers of Jalpaiguri earn more through organic farming

Apu Trilogy sees a closure with new movie Abhijatrik

Director Subhrajit Mitra speaks to GB

Raghu Rai at Kolkata’s KIPF conference

Kolkata International Photography Festival announces venues

‘Virginity’ decoded by JU professor, but why?

GB tries to trace the obsession about women’s virginity

Pavel’s Rosogolla has more to it than a biopic

How love of a man for his wife led to invention of Rosogolla

Spreading joy through Christmas Carols

This Christmas enjoy the carols

Watch out for Kolkata boy Ram Kamal Mukherjee 

Short film director of Bollywood making a mark

76-year-old Kolkata engineer on his exquisite ink and paper drawings

After an exhibition in London, Sandip Chatterjee is all set for a book!

Bringing sunshine to Pavlov Hospital patients through baking

Chef Sunshine Bhattacharjee Alam using baking for mental therapy

Bidhan Sarani - where ancient Kolkata still lives!

Street on which the first Indian College was established

First crowd-funded school of Bengal for Sabars

Exclusive GB interview with Swarnabha Dey

Exclusive interview with Voice of Silence director

Debraj Naiya addresses post rape trauma through his film

Is the art of sweet-dice making of Bengal fading fast?

Once upon a time Bengal made designer home-made sweets

Indo-Russian bond captured behind the lens at a Kolkata exhibition

GB speaks to Vice Consul of Russia on the photography exhibit

Lost pithe recipes cook up a storm at Aahare Bangla

Do not miss pithe delicacies on last day of Aahare Bangla

Wondrous transition of comedy in Bengali literature

Purono Kolkatar Golpo presented Hasyarasher Jibon Kahini

Kali – the docu-film against our obsession with skin colour

Director Subrata Sen speaks to GB on dark-skin shaming

Go and watch docu-drama Menopause at KIFF

Breaking the shackles of social taboos in India

Are Silent Crackers a Greater Devil?

Brace for air pollution this Diwali

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