SOLACE With light fading towards darkness of the evening, silence crawled up the abysm. Indrani sat in her room all alone engulfed in darkness, preoccupied with her thoughts. Her sorrow was so deep that she could not get away from it. She even lacked the strength
DEBANJANA SAHA & SUMAN SADHU Asim Paul, not just makes Durga idols these days, he also makes idols of Great Men and Women of Bengal. Probably, that’s what sustains his studio all year round. Son of famous traditional artist Jiten Paul, and also a former student
Amita Ray is Retired Associate Professor of English, a poet and author. Her translation of Abanindranath Tagore’s Khirer Putul was recently launched as a book in Kolkata • What attracted you to Abanindranath Tagore’s Khirer Putul and why did you wish to translate it? Khirer Putul is
The State Government recently took up an initiative to make the mouth-watering street food of Bengal more hygienic for tourists. With Kolkata topping the global research ‘Taste of Travel’ data, as the city with the best street food in the country, it is all the
Chapter 1 It was the month of Falgun in Bengal, a full moon night seeped in the essence of mango blossoms, the gentle breeze of the nascent spring swayed seductively. A sleepless singing bird was creating its mellifluous melodies that pierced the dense leaves of the
Nearly 1 in every 100 people worldwide are now displaced from their homes, the highest share of the world’s population that has been forcibly displaced since the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees began collecting data on displaced persons in 1951. According to a new
Rupa Chakravarti is a celebrated educator, singer, poet and international traveler A monsoon evening, a light breeze, mild drizzle and some random pondering, that is how the poetic evening unfurled at the Z’s Preccint, a century-old South Kolkata building, turned into an art gallery and curio
‘The offered one..’ well, this is an offering made not to God, but to the upliftment of a society under British India. That’s what an Irish woman had done almost a century ago, right here, in Kolkata. Yes, you have got it right. We are
1. Moulali Rathyatra Mela: Held at Ramleela Park, this fair is as colourful as the rainbow in the sky with a plethora of birds and plants that are sold here. The fair is almost 50-60 years old. The primary attraction are birds such as love
“His master gave him 2 annas and asked him to bring Sandesh. The servant was a bit confused, he never realized Sandesh is something that can be read, he thought it is a Bengali sweet delicacy. Thus, he stood beside the road and started asking