It is often said South Kolkata’s Behala is older than the city itself! Behala comprised of villages once upon a time, and each village had a suffix ‘behala’ added to it --- like Bazarbehala, Tamtelbehala, Bnorshebehala or modern Barisha, Sorshunnobehala, modern Sarsuna and so on.
It was a summer afternoon when I suddenly received a call from director Anik Dutta. He is a senior from my college, St Xavier’s, and I had known him for quite some time. I always admired his work and had shared my interest in working
Once the sexy queen, the prima donna of tinsel town, she reigned the glamorous Tollywood film industry, albeit for a brief period, before she suddenly decided to disappear from public view. Her fans waited, they pined and fretted for her return but she had chosen
Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani was not just another thriller, it was a thriller with a Kolkata connect. It had set Vidya Balan apart as the undercover agent in the guise of a pregnant woman. But another actor who set the tables to a superior height was
It was such a moment of pride to see economist Abhijit Banerjee walking up the podium in a Bengali dhoti to receive the Nobel Prize. An attire that was popularized in Bengal by the zamindars and babus, who also linked dhoti to Bengal Renaissance bringing
The century-old sherbet joint Paramount has witnessed many a storm, from surging prices and customer base complaining at times of fall in quality, to that of well-known revolutionaries from Bengal who used the joint as an undercover location for hatching plans against the British. Yet
Bollywood heartthrob Aamir Khan has landed in Kolkata to do an extensive shooting on Howrah Bridge for the upcoming movie ‘Laal Singh Chadda.’ Another hero Ajay Devgn had also done extensive shooting for Amit Sharma movie Maidan recently in Kolkata as it is based on
Married at the tender age of nine, the girl who could not complete her school education, wrote more than 300 books! She then went on to get the ‘Saraswati’ title conferred by the prestigious Nabadwip Bidwajan Sabha (Nabadwip Scholars Society) and received Leela Purashkar from
Even decades before the present BJP-led India is over-zealous to attain Ram Rajya, there was a renowned Bengali linguist Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay who actually defined the word ‘Ram Rajya’ and fell in the line of fire of many around. Often there is a belief Ram-Rajya
GB was at Aahare Bangla, the mega food event held every year in Kolkata. Watch this vibrant food video to know what were lay smiling from the plates of food lovers!