The red laterite path led through cashew plantations as dusk arrived slowly and silently to the village of Khawabgaon, the last village on the border of West Bengal and Jharkhand. While travelling through Jhargram recently, I had the wish to drop in at Lalbazaar, a
Arguably “the most popular, translated, and adapted Indian author of all time”. In a nutshell, that is the sentence most online biographies use to describe Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is easy to see why. To take just one example, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) lists over
How about breaking the shackles of patriarchy in India by bringing up our sons as caring and loving human beings? Can we save our daughters just by shouting about women's rights on social media or from podiums, without educating our sons on how to reciprocate
Start your year afresh with interesting events that will crop up in Kolkata this January. GetBengal presents a list. Event - ‘Oh Solitude!’ - an exhibition of Sanat Kar’s paintings Date - 16th January 2023, Monday – 25th January 2023 Wednesday (except Sunday) Time - 2 p.m to 8 p.m. Venue
Faith is all encompassing. It is present in every aspect of our lives. Faith can lead people to leave all the earthly comforts and just devote their body and soul to the almighty. A coalescence of faith can be witnessed around the Ganges, the holy
The Alipore Zoo remains as lively as ever this winter with a nineteen-hectare area sprawling with the best of flora and fauna. But do we know that along with the British, the Indians, especially the Bengalis had a huge contribution towards the building of the
Did you know Bengali cuisine is the only of its kind in the Indian subcontinent that has a proper multi-course structure, much similar to the style of modern French cuisine? Bengalis love their food and like to have it served course-wise, instead of all at
He was a writer, historian, and social activist of the early 1900s. Unfortunately, the youth of today have no idea about who Sudhir Kumar Mitra was and how he is relevant in modern times when communalism raises its ugly head at every corner. Sudhir Kumar
In our times of militant feminism, terms such as battle, war, and fight for equality have become just so much loose change. The world is perhaps no longer willing to remember a small Bengal woman with her quiet smile, whose pen shaped a deeply feminist
Nearly two years ago, news emerged of the long-awaited renovation of the roughly 230-year-old Roxburgh Building at Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden or, as we all know it, Shibpur Botanical Garden. Founded in 1787 by soldier and botanist Robert Kyd (1746-93), the Indian Botanic