COVID-19 has affected the entire globe in all ways. Amidst all the uncertainties and crisis, there have been a few positive sides too; baking being a prime one. Home-baking turned out to be a booming business for many entrepreneurs as customers preferred products from the
Kolkata Christmas Festival, 2023 Every year they get bigger and brighter – the Christmas lights swaying in the northerly winds as winter sets in with great aplomb in the City of Joy. And with that kickstarts the dazzling fervour on the street that never sleeps –
The relationship between Bengal and terracotta has long been a special one. Beginning with mosques and temples, which were made of terracotta in the relative absence of other building materials, the use of burnt clay gradually spread to smaller artefacts and even articles of everyday
Lockdown, COVID 19 pandemic was not all about loss of jobs, deaths and migrant workers walking miles to return home. It was also a story of hope and new beginnings, bringing about new entrepreneurship zeal and talents among many, who were in some other profession
“Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.” ― Thomas Jefferson As
Srabani Mukherjee, despite being a senior citizen, has an undaunted spirit of trying new delicacies and feeding people. During lockdown with the insistence of her family members she started ‘Ma’s Soul Kitchen’ where she not just cooked traditional Bengal food but gave people the taste
Director Bo Thet Htun, Myanmar At 36, Bo Thet Htun is a young filmmaker, whose work the city had a chance to watch thanks to the 29th Kolkata International Film Festival’s NETPAC Award section. And at the end of the screening, a packed Rabindra Sadan broke
Oxford Bookstore became witness to an extraordinary evening filled with intellectual ardour and historical rediscovery on December 6, 2023, as the book "The Life and Times of David Hare: First Secular Educationist of India" by author Sarojesh Mukerjee was launched. The event was graced by
Pratik Mondal of Aambera village of Bankura is an entrepreneur in his own rights, and so is 30-year-old Radhanath Mandy, who huddle into a fervour every winter from being a sap tapper to running behind locals, boiling huge pots and pans of jaggery, popularly known
‘It is freedom when your spirit conjures up a vision from the inert, to illuminate its every line with the flame of your devotion. You have the magic of life’s touch in your eyes and your dream has come out in a creation in which