Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the many multi-talented Bengalis. He was an essayist, novelist, critic, a journalist, polemicist and a thinker as well. He is one of the two first graduates of the very first batch of the University of Calcutta, which held its
Established in 1863 to help education go beyond the confines of the classroom, Santiniketan grew into the Visva Bharati University in 1921, attracting some of the most creative minds in the country. From its very inception, Santiniketan was lovingly modelled by Tagore on the principles
The Central African Republic is the focal point of the Bangui Magnetic Anomaly, one of the largest and most intense crustal magnetic anomalies on the African continent and also one of the largest magnetic anomalies on Earth. This landlocked country in Central Africa is also
Raniganj is a mining town in the Asansol subdivision of West Burdwan district. According to the Burdwan Register, this region was once a dense forest where wildlife flourished. The town came into prominence when coalmining in India first started here in 1774. The Raniganj coal
How about viewing a bit of Bengal’s own Kantha work on a 1915 painting by the famous surrealist artist Marc Chagall? Art connoisseurs know why his painting The Birthday (1915) had made waves in a new direction when it was created. A couple is seen
Poems were an inseparable part of Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s films, a fact well known to his ardent fans. Maybe that is the reason why Bengal is celebrating the "1st Buddhadeb Dasgupta Film & Poetry Festival with such pomp. The renowned Buddhadeb Dasgupta Memorial Trust, founded by
There is a strong influence of the legend Kobiguru Rabindranath Tagore on every Bengali. The very first memory of our school lessons would almost certainly be of a poem from Sahaj Path, be it 'Haat' or 'Taal Gaach'. And not only in childhood but his
MasterChef Australia 2021 became witness to a startling rendition when participant Kishwar Chowdhury presented her dish named ‘Smoked Rice Water’ in front of the judges. To state it quite proudly, her dish was a humble adaptation of ‘panta bhaat’ – an oh-so-common dish found widely
Ma left me very silently. She just concealed herself somewhere, away from us. I was at that moment mid-air, returning to Kolkata from Mumbai. My brother was in Kolkata, may be was busy with his work. Baba was alone at home then. Ma left her companion,
As the Hooghly River meanders its way to the Bay of Bengal, its west bank takes a unique crescent moon shape between the waterfront towns of Chinsurah and Chandannagar, once bastions of Dutch and French colonial rule respectively. Caught by the picturesque view of the