Pradipta Kundu

Dense black clouds hover in the sky, intermittently showering steady rainfall, and while gazing at the developing saplings soaked in

In the Bengali imagination, Durga is more than Adi Shakti Mahamaya, the primordial force. She is Uma, the daughter of

“Elephants belonged in their stables, horses in theirs” – that is how royal palaces are often described in Bengali folktales, right?

‘Bhau Bhau', Bengal's first ‘dog magazine' The human-canine bonding can be traced back to at least 15,000 years ago to the

We have all grown up listening to that powerful Rabindrasangeet — a song that speaks of rising above fear and self-doubt, of

It was the late eighteenth century. After the Battle of Plassey, Bengal went through big political changes. Gradually, that change was