Asha Bhatia is an Indian journalist, who has worked in Dubai for over three decades. She paints an interesting modern picture of life and times in Dubai in her recently published book “Life in the Twinkle of an Eye – Dubai: A Hundred Years in
The Broken Home and Other Stories is a lovely compilation of two novellas and six short stories of none other than Rabindranath Tagore. Attempting to translate Tagore has been done down generations, but it is definitely one of the most difficult tasks to translate emotions
A film festival and photo exhibition with a difference is starting today in Kolkata marking the Bangladesh Vijay Diwas or the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. It will continue till January 8 and will be hosted by Bangladesh’s ministry of information. Among the various films that
The minute someone takes the name of Shaktigarh in East Burdwan, one remembers Lyangcha! But how did this famous Bengali sweet get its name! In the 1890s, an expert karigar (sweetmeat maker) arrived in Shaktigarh from Kalna to make pantua and ladykany. He was lame
Ananya Dhawan - (1st) THAT DREARY VIBE Contracted imagination, limited dreams. Bizarre thoughts and the wildest screams. Those extreme highs, those lowest lows the drama, the deceit, the perished soul, the pain- concrete. And you, hoping, demanding, wishing, but meticulously failing. Being pulled and torn, you are ailing. Ever and again, you feel the persistent beat. Holding on, more to defeat. (Ananya is a freelance
Photo credit: RAJESH GUPTA GB WISHES ALL ITS READERS a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR with unique photographs taken by world renowned photographer and journalist KOUNTEYA SINHA for THE FIRST EVER EUROPEAN UNION CALENDAR IN INDIA. The calendar focuses on the Indian Diaspora living across 28 countries
World renowned photographer Kounteya Sinha gives an exclusive GB interview to Saheli Mitra, about his latest global project New Homelands and why he loves returning to Kolkata • What is the new EU project New Homelands all about? New Homelands was both a path-breaking and a brave
Gur has always been a winter savory of Bengal, linked to the tastes of generations of Bengali who would die for that patali and jholagur along with the Nolen gurer Sandesh! Residents of Gajaldoba of North Bengal had seldom paid attention to the large number
