Bengal’s humble Kalo Jeere that has been a part and parcel of our household kitchens is now going to take over the world of cancer treatment. Thanks to the breakthrough by scientist Dr Arghya Adhikari of the Nanotechnology department of Calcutta University, black cumin seeds
Tista Das looked like any other Bengali bride, while Dipan Chakraborty was the groom as they exchanged their garlands with the priest chanting wedding mantras in the background. But this was a wedding with a difference. It was the first Rainbow Wedding of Bengal where
Bilkis Bano never had an easy life. Born to an impoverished family, she was forced to leave studies and get married after her secondary examination. She was only 16 then. Her father was a vegetable vendor. After marriage, her struggle and agony increased many folds
Anyone in India today hears Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s name somehow raises brows. Why? Simple. Because he was always tagged as a Jan Sangh man and the word ‘Sangh’ has indeed been a terror word to many in present India. But what Bengal’s son Shyama Prasad
How do you feel when a Bengali girl snatches the crown of Miss England 2019 from the stiff-upper-lip Britishers? Well, we all feel proud. Medical student Bhasha Mukherjee, born to Bengali parents settled in England, have won the coveted crown of Miss England 2019. Not
If you are acquainted with Kashmiri surnames, you must have often come across the surname Dar. Found among both Kashmiri Pundits and Muslims, they actually come from the Dhar community of Bengal. The Dhar kram originates from the honorific given to a village head, strongman
Rabindranath Tagore has always been supreme in the thoughts portrayed in his short stories. Even a century back when he wrote about the friendship of a Kabuliwala who had come from Afghanistan to Kolkata and a little girl Minnie, probably he knew such friendships will
One difficult song after another… Ankita mesmerized the audience and the judges with her mellifluous voice and her rare talent in copying even the superb style of singing of Kishore Kumar. She not just sang on stage, she even acted. Be it the difficult Padosan
The Central Government gave a final nod to privatize the iconic pharma company Bengal Chemicals that was started by world renowned scientist Prafulla Chandra Roy almost a century ago. Ray had finished his studies abroad and always wished to start something on his own soil
Off and on railway stations of India are renamed these days. Recently, a news had made to the headlines about Burdwan station being renamed after freedom fighter Batukeshwar Dutt. But who was Batuk Dutt? Born in a remote village of Burdwan, he joined Chandrashekhar Azad