Shelter Promotion Council of India will hold their 21st National Conference on various facades of Environment and Sustainable Development in context to architecture and the city at Kolkata from today. A think tank of architects and environmentalists will discuss the future of our city in
Often as we cross street taps in Kolkata, we have found the water falling incessantly as they are either broken or do not have stop corks or some are stolen. In an age when we are talking about water conservation, as most Indian cities are
At the junction of Bidhan Sarani and Vivekananda Road stands an imposing Grade I Heritage building – the YMCA Hostel that has been the home of many students, workers, office employees who have come to Kolkata on work for decades. Rather call it more than
On SN Banerjee Road stands Kolkata’s famous heritage mansion, Futnani Chambers. This sprawling heritage structure is on 100 cottahs of prime land in the heart of the city and houses several commercial establishments including BATA’s registered office and popular Mughlai Food joint Aminia along with
Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been funding various women self help group in the city. To help them churn out Rotis at a reasonable rate, KMC has recently bought Roti making machines from Noida that can churn out 1000 Rotis in one hour. These machines will
They have brought the heart and soul of Assam’s Barak Valley to Kolkata and mixed it with the love they received from music lovers of this city. Band Dohar has crossed 20 long years with the same enthusiasm they started off with two decades ago
With a faded Zomato T shirt on him, lean and thin Pranjit Haloi, the Zomato delivery boy of Kolkata looks like any other delivery boy, tired at the day’s end, running against time to reach food packets to customers. Else he would listen to so
If you are a photography buff, then you must be at the MAYA Art Space today. Be a part of ‘BLINK,’ the first solo exhibition of photography and painting by Suvomoy Mitra. The photographs present various fractions of life around. His style is unique –
It is often said: ‘A Childs’s functional recovery and restoration to society is incomplete without rehabilitation.’ Keeping this in mind The Department of Neuro-rehabilitation of the state-of-the-art world renowned Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata is conducting a two-day seminar and workshop on ‘Cerebral Palsy – A
If you ever find a Vcross or a Scorpio equipped with GPS, CB radios and Dashcams racing down some unknown path of South Bengal chasing a Norwester, do not be awestruck. It is definitely not a scene from Hollywood’s famous storm-chasing thriller Twister, but a